Anthropology category: 10809 books
Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters...
The Politics of Governance
Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized?
This book seeks...
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World
The Intimate and the Extimate
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence, discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics, the book...
Global Issues
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Global Issues is a pedagogically rich text that offers a unique way of looking at contemporary issues, such as food security and global conflict, from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. By exploring each issue in depth, students gain an applied understanding of more abstract concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of...
Food in Zones of Conflict
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as...
U.S. Food Policy
Anthropology and Advocacy in the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Inequity of control over food systems is a particularly insidious form of injustice. Collectively, the contributors to this volume posit that this inequity is rooted in power asymmetries in the U.S. food system and codified through U.S. food policies. This process puts the public at risk in the U.S....
Flaming Souls
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality...
The Poverty of Television
The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media,...
Global Tourism
Cultural Heritage and Economic Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods, services, and people in history. Consequently, it is a significant catalyst for economic development and sociopolitical change. While tourism increasingly accounts for ever greater segments of national economies, the consequences of this...
Worlding Multiculturalisms
The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based...
How Chiefs Became Kings
Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.
The book works...
Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other
Self and Society in Fiji
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other explores the fluid and context-bound nature of cultural and personal identity among indigenous Fijians. While national identity in Fiji is often defined in opposition to the West through reference to a romanticized pre-modern tradition, individual Fijians are often...