Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research in twenty-nine key essays by leading scholars.
Demonstrates...
Biological Anthropology and Prehistory
Exploring Our Human Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past.
Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, this text exposes students to the many...
Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’ systems of thought against a more authentic ‘Eastern’ alternative.
Top scholars in the field of Japan anthropology examine,...
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take...
The Xavante in Transition
Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The Xavánte in Transition presents a diachronic view of the long and complex interaction between the Xavánte, an indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, and the surrounding nation, documenting the effects of this interaction on Xavánte health, ecology, and biology.
A powerful example...
by Rivke Jaffe, Anouk De Koning
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary...
Archaeology and Anthropology
Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated....
These "Thin Partitions"
Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
*These “Thin Partitions” *explores the intellectual and methodological differences that separate two of the four subdisciplines within the field of anthropology: archaeology and cultural anthropology. Contributors examine the theoretical underpinnings of this separation and explore what can be...
by Michael M. J. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Anthropology as Cultural Critique helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing...
by R. R. Marett
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
In this chapter I propose to say something, firstly, about the ideal scope of anthropology; secondly, about its ideal limitations; and, thirdly and lastly, about its actual relations to existing studies. In other words, I shall examine the extent of its claim, and then go on to examine how that claim,...
by Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.
With a focus on domestic space...
An Asian Frontier
American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea...