Anthropology category: 10809 books
Cyborgs@Cyberspace?
An Ethnographer Looks to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Arguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethinking of the traditional separation of anthropology and technical studies. Drawing on three decades of research on contemporary technological societies, this book outlines a fresh...
by Benjamin Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Benjamin Kidd (1858-1916), well-known for his ground-breaking application of social Darwinism in his premier work Social Evolution (1894), was a sociologist and a keen observer of nature. First published posthumously in 1921, A Philosopher with Nature is a collection of Kidd’s most profound writings...
Making Music in Japan's Underground
The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general. Matsue highlights the...
The Accompaniment
Assembling the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an extended rumination on what he gained from two of his...
The Business of Creativity
Toward an Anthropology of Worth
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
How does a group of people, brought together because of their diverse skills and professional knowledge, set out to be ‘creative’? How are ongoing tensions between beauty, fame, and money resolved? In The Business of Creativity, Brian Moeran, a leading scholar and writer on the creative industries,...
Anthropologies of Education
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In spite of Islam’s long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging research field.
Placing the pilgrims’...
The Salish People: Volume IV
The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Volume IV of The Salish People deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern tribes of Vancouver Island. This four-volume series collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout, who studied the anthropology of British Columbia, in the Pacific Northwest.
Sense and Sadness
Syriac Chant in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala Jarjour puts forward the concept...
by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization...
Merde
Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Merde is an unusual (very unusual) and witty investigation into a subject you may always have wondered about--but didn't know quite what to ask.
History, biology, anthropology, culture, animal behavior--all of these are the real subjects of Merde. Why can some animals do it on the...
by Agustín Fuentes, Aku Visala
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be understood....
Articulating Dinosaurs
A Political Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Following the complex exchanges of palaeontologists, museums specialists, film- and media-makers, science...
by Ellen Dissanayake
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called �art,� and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist...