Anthropology category: 10809 books
The Marriage of Sense and Soul
Integrating Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
There is arguably no more critical and pressing topic than the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science has given us the methods for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Yet the two are seen as mutually exclusive, with wrenching...
Alternative Tourism in Budapest
Class, Culture, and Identity in a Postsocialist City
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Alternative Tourism in Budapest: Class, Culture, and Identity in a Postsocialist City analyzes the particular imaginaries of Hungarian culture that are produced and circulated through alternative tourism a generation after state socialism. Susan Hill records the everyday work of business owners and...
Culture and Politics in South Asia
Performative Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions...
The Voice of Prophecy
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Edwin Ardener - a new expanded edition of the collected works of one of the most important social anthroplogists in Britian of his time. Ardener worked on social, economic, demographic and political problems, and was particularly influential in his sustained effort to bring together social anthropology...
The Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1988
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and...
Moroccan Fashion
Design, Culture and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Moroccan garment design and consumption have experienced major shifts in recent history, transforming from a traditional craft-based enterprise to a thriving fashion industry. Influenced by western fashion, dress has become commoditized and has expanded from tailoring to designer labels. This book...
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand the social meanings of objects. In this broadly interdisciplinary text, Berger takes the reader...
The Han
China's Diverse Majority
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity....
Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
The Premi of Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the...
by Tony Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a historically...
by Marshall Sahlins
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between...
A Different Kind of Ethnography
Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The...
Material Cultures
Why Some Things Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something...
by Šse Ottosson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts – an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements,...