Anthropology category: 10809 books
Island Songs
A Global Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Islands are concentrated "instances" of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Through the close analysis of musical performance and traditions, the scholarly contributors to Island Songs provide...
The Cultural Revolution and Overacting
Dynamics between Politics and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China between 1966 and 1976, was a major political and social tragedy in Chinese history. As part of an effort to understand how the state enforced control amid seeming chaos, this book looks at the ubiquitous revolutionary presentations...
'City of the Future'
Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.
As the study...
Holocaust Education in Lithuania
Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Holocaust Education in Lithuania is based on a six-year, multi-sited ethnographic research project that was conducted to analyze the effects of the controversial policies of Holocaust education which were introduced as conditions of membership for access into post-Soviet western alliances. In order...
Praying and Preying
Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari’, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes...
The Challenge of Epistemology
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart of...
by Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples’ lives and that of turning inward to one’s self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and ethical...
Global Tangos
Travels in the Transnational Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization:...
Radio Fields
Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world today. As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap, radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. It is used as a call for prayer in Argentina and Appalachia, to organize political...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping...
Performing Afro-Cuba
Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba’s...
Being Alive
Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building...