Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Sheela Saravanan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism. Drawing on her ethnographic work with surrogate mothers, intended parents and medical practitioners in India, the author shows...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment...
Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts
A Guide to Research Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The study of oral traditions and verbal arts leads into an area of human culture to which anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral form and their performances, treating both the practicalities...
Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India
The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the globalisation...
The Question of the Gift
Essays Across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory...
by Frank A. Salamone
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. It is an ethnographic reflection of intense field work in Yauri and the surrounding areas that border it, as well as many trips to archives, libraries, and interview...
by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1997
Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current state of our knowledge about the cognitive skills of non-human primates. They integrate empirical findings on the topic...
Words and Worlds Turned Around
Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
A sophisticated, state-of-the-art study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies, Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. The book surveys how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages; explores...
The Huasteca
Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements...
In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic...
Ethnographic Film
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this...
The Faces of Terrorism
Social and Psychological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it, who are...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily...
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales
Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this trailblazing book Japanese Animal-Wife...