Anthropology category: 10809 books
Sex Work in Nepal
The Making and Unmaking of a Category
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book explores ‘sex work’ in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines changes as well as continuities characterising socio-cultural norms and perceptions through an analysis of sexual consumption. It also highlights the...
by Marilyn Strathern, Professor, University of Cambridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest...
by John D. Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"A landmark achievement that will no doubt be cited again and again for years to come. It is a thoroughly-researched and authoritative work."--Allen J. Christenson, author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community "While this book explains what brought about the Maya uprisings...
Global Nomads
Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises.
Based...
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR
Things, Values, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin.
Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important...
Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors
Indigenous Models for International Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Guarani of Paraguay have survived over four centuries of contact with the commercial system, while keeping in tact their traditions of leadership, religion and kinship. This concise ethnography examines how the Guarani have adapted over time, in concert with Paraguay’s subtropical forest system.
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Maya Figurines
Intersections between State and Household
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these...
by Dean E. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work...
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...
War Crimes Trials and Investigations
A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History, Violence Studies,...
Portraits of 'the Whiteman'
Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1979
'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans...
Trouble Showed the Way
Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1997
Robertson’s book represents a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women’s history. Highly recommended." —Choice
An important resource for anyone interested in the history of women and trade in modern Kenya...." —International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The Arc of Life
Evolution and Health Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Given the rapidly developing area of evolutionary medicine and public health, The Arc of Life examines ways in which research conducted by biological anthropologists can enrich our understanding of variation in human health outcomes. The book aims not only to showcase the perspective that biological...
Africa in Europe
Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international relations, migrational studies, and globalization....