Anthropology category: 10809 books
Development projects in Northern India
Today's problems, visions for tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: sehr gut, University of Hamburg (Institut für Ethnologie), course: Feldforschungsbericht, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In my research, I wanted to learn about...
Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors...
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments...
Jaffa Shared and Shattered
Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu...
Places in Mind
Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
This edited volume provides a cross-section of the cutting-edge ways in which archaeologists are developing new approaches to their work with communities and other stakeholder groups who have special interest in the uses in the past.
by Karen Fog Olwig
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social...
by Justina Dugbazah
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender...
Children
Ethnographic Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insights.
Children: Ethnographic Encounters presents ten vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural...
by Leslie A White
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This lost classic by Leslie A. White represents twenty-five years of his scholarship on the anthropology of modern capitalism. Drawing out his now classic formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this major theoretical...
Craftwork as Problem Solving
Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors...
Sexuality and Gender at Home
Experience, Politics, Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality...
From Notes to Narrative
Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural...
The Franz Boas Enigma
Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How did Franz Boas become the central founder of anthropology and a driving force promoting science in public life in North America? To answer this question, linguistic and cultural barriers must be overcome to grasp the importance of Boas’s personal background and academic achievements as a German...
Social Justice and Medical Practice
Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social...