Anthropology category: 10809 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1998
A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the...
by Marshall Sahlins
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic...
The Cell Phone
An Anthropology of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world.
Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica,...
Lycra
How A Fiber Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
by Mark Q. Sutton, E. N. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
All peoples and cultures face environmental issues—but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework...
Kennewick Man
Perspectives on the Ancient One
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Kennewick Man, known as the Ancient One to Native Americans, has been the lightning rod for conflict between archaeologists and indigenous peoples in the United States. A decade-long legal case pitted scientists against Native American communities and highlighted the shortcomings of the Native American...
Hunting Caribou
Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist...
Footprints of Hopi History
Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni'at
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Kukveni—footprints—are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled...
Our Indigenous Ancestors
A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors,...
Human Variation
Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Basic text for the sophomore/junior level course in Human Variation or Human Diversity taught anthropology or biology departments.
This classic introduction to human variation, has been thoroughly updated to include the issues and controversies facing the contemporary study of diversity.
Global Outlaws
Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of...
by F.W. Headley
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
An adamant fan of Darwin, F.W. Headley attempts to argue the difficulties of believing in Socialism and Darwinism simultaneously and highlights issues which could prevent Socialism from being put into practice. Originally published in 1909, this study uses examples of communities in countries such...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,”...
Sensual Relations
Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating...