Anthropology category: 10809 books
The Geography of Morals
Varieties of Moral Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy, and a deep exploration of the opportunities for self,...
Emotions in the Field
The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and...
Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic
Becoming the Magician
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In the Western world, magic has often functioned as an umbrella term for various religious beliefs and ritual practices that seek to influence events by harnessing supernatural power. The definition of these myriad occult and esoteric traditions have, however, usually come from those that are opposed...
Taking Sides
Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged...
The Eye of Spirit
An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
In this groundbreaking book, Ken Wilber uses his widely acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model to completely rewrite our approach to such important fields as psychology, spirituality, anthropology, cultural studies, art and literary theory, ecology, feminism, and planetary transformation....
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk
A Study in Social Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk expands on Carpenter’s idea of the Intermediate type; a person of mixed sexes such as a feminine body with a masculine mind or vice versa. Originally published in 1914, this text explores the role that intermediate types played amongst early civilisations...
A Visit to a Gñáni
Or Wise Man of the East
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenter’s Adam’s Peak to Elephanta, originally published in 1892*,* which details his travels in India and Ceylon. This excerpt in particular details his visit to a Gñáni, or religious wise...
Kinship and Beyond
The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making...
Ethno-ornithology
Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the...
Sounding the Limits of Life
Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and...
Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah
Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity Among the Hui of Qinghai Province
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The global spread of Islamic movements and the ascendance of a Chinese state that limits religious freedom have aroused anxieties about integrating Islam and protecting religious freedom around the world. Focusing on violent movements like the so-called Islamic State and Uygur separatists in China’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in India and China explores the complex history and sociology of the middle class from a comparative perspective. It has papers written by sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists rather than economists, so the emphasis is on cultural shifts rather...
The Battle for Fortune
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space...
Belonging Together
Dealing with the Politics of Disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Affairs Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Comprehensive and optimistic, this examination describes current Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period following the end of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 2004. It provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current policy, advancing a new...