Anthropology category: 10809 books

Cover of Anthropology: The Basics
by Peter Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006

The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists...
Cover of Race, Language and Culture
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. "Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book, Race, Language, and Culture, is a collection of some...
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Medical Anthropology in Europe

Shaping the Field

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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and future directions of the field. Medical anthropology emerged on an international playing ground, and while other recently compiled anthologies emphasize North...
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Cold War Anthropology

The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

by David H. Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections...
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The Subject of Anthropology

Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis

by Henrietta L. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthropology and psychoanalysis, she...
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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives

Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota

by Jon D. Holtzman
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015

This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance...
Cover of Experimental Film and Anthropology
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality...
Cover of The Anthropology of Christianity
by Olivia Harris, Cecilia Busby, David Mosse
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006

This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell...
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Threatening Anthropology

McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists

by David H. Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004

A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.S. Cold War surveillance damaged the field of anthropology. David H. Price reveals how dozens of activist anthropologists were publicly and privately persecuted during the...
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The Anthropology of Expeditions

Travel, Visualities, Afterlives

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role...
Cover of Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005

This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology,...
Cover of Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences.  Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it.  Consequently,...
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The Ethics of Anthropology

Debates and Dilemmas

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable aspect of other peoples' morality - religion, social control, sin, virtue, evil, duty, purity and pollution. But what of the examination of anthropology itself, and of its agendas, epistemes, theories...
Cover of Politics of Culture in Iran
by Nematollah Fazeli
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated,...
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