Anthropology category: 10809 books
The Christianity of Culture
Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope and politics of "culture." Placing her ethnography in dialogue with developments in the nascent anthropology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by European presence in the region. The aim here is to map the ways in which European observers and scholars interpreted the ethnic, linguistic and cultural...
Religion
Material Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious...
Living in the Stone Age
Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as “living, as it were, in the Stone Age.” For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people “primitive,” but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and for decades has been used to justify...
by Marion Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 2,5 (B), University of Heidelberg (Ethnology South Asiean Institute), course: Tourism and Nation-building in the South Pacific, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the 1970s the aim...
by Jane H. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.
provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism
reveals how racializing discourse—talk...
Gendered Fields
Women, Men and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation,...
by Marcus Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other concepts such as `race' and nationalism. In Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions the major anthropological and sociological...
Erotic Islands
Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory...
Thinking Through Things
Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary...
Recasting Ritual
Performance, Media, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites...
by Arnold van Gennep
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
A CLASSIC WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY—OVER SEVENTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLD
With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner David I. Kertzer
Arnold van Gennep’s masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in...
Multi-Sited Ethnography
Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years. It responds to the challenge of combining multi-sited work with the need for in-depth analysis, allowing for a more considered study of social worlds. This volume...
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian...