Anthropology category: 10809 books
Uncertain Transition
Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation...
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya
Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use...
by Jill Pruetz
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses.
Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya, East Africa provides students with a glimpse into a research project from start to finish. It discusses basic issues of studying primates and explores...
Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds
Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of...
Indigenous Education through Dance and Ceremony
A Mexica Palimpsest
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term ethnography of an Aztec dance circle and makes a case for the use of the metaphor of palimpsest as an ethnographic research tool.
Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across...
Contemporary Religiosities
Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization,...
The Wherewithal of Life
Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston –...
Catechizing Culture
Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds...
Light from the East
Being Letters on Gñanam, The Divine Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Light from the East collates letters between Hon. P. Arunáchalam of the legislative council of Ceylon and Edward Carpenter, which expand on issues of the Gñanam or divine knowledge. Carpenter edited these letters for publication in 1927 as well as writing additional articles on issues such as desire,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.
The Quality of Home Runs
The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality...
Religious Freedom at Risk
The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work presents legal analysis and ethnographic fieldwork,...