Anthropology category: 10809 books
After Eden
The Evolution of Human Domination
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Ethnographic and archaeological records feature a rich body of data suggesting that understandings of the mineral world are in fact both culturally variable and highly diverse. Soils, Stones and Symbols highlights studies from the fields of anthropology, archaeology and philosophy that demonstrate...
Humans
An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Caring for Place
Ecology, Ideology, and Emotion in Traditional Landscape Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
How can cultural forms motivate people to care about their environment? While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors. Marshaling...
The Drunken Monkey
Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on...
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes
Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Told from an ordinary man’s perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas-the father of modern anthropology-on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit...
Not a Hazardous Sport
Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Nigel Barley travels to Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At last he is following his own advice to students, to do their anthropological fieldwork ‘somewhere where the inhabitants are beautiful, friendly,...
Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History
The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863.
"Wait," anthropologist and former...
Aesthetics of Sorrow
The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The term “wailing culture” includes an array of women’s behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself—a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving...
Matter, Magic, and Spirit
Representing Indian and African American Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers. Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and...
Culture in the Marketplace
Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had...
Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope
Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalization and urbanization is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food growers,...
Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian...
Agency without Actors?
New Approaches to Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency....