Anthropology category: 10809 books
Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
A must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Aboriginal studies, Canadian history, and collaborative research and for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
Violence and Crime in Latin America
Representations and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors,...
Fields of Play
An Ethnography of Children's Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their children's...
Human Rights and Gender Violence
Translating International Law into Local Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen...
Barrio Professors
Tales of Naturalistic Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Prize-winning sociologist Lloyd H. Rogler, a founder of cultural psychiatry, gives us an intimately revealing, brilliantly narrated account of fieldwork from San Juan, Puerto Rico to inner-city New Haven. Using his decades of field experience and creative fiction he explores the daily reality of his...
Iraq at a Distance
What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on...
Participant Observation
A Guide for Fieldworkers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use...
My Father's Wars
Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 *
My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded...
Darwin and the Bible
The Cultural Confrontation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.
Darwin and the Bible helps readers to understand the nature, history and passions behind the debate over scientific and religious versions of creation and human origins.
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Religion Explained
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion Explained...
Practicing Ethnography
A Student Guide to Method and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America...
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine...