Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Ralph Maud
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed herein, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs, and Native informants of the past and present are given consideration, making this book a comprehensive...
Wayward Reproductions
Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Wayward Reproductions breaks apart and transfigures prevailing understandings of the interconnection among ideologies of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Alys Eve Weinbaum demonstrates how these ideologies were founded in large part on what she calls “the race/reproduction bind”––the...
Surviving against the Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having...
Aboriginal Siberia.
A Study in Social Anthropology. With a Preface by R.R. Marett.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1914 edition by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. This is an illustrated edition.
Maria Antonina Czaplicka (October 25, 1884 - May 27, 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist...
by Nordhoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Published in the year 1987, Nordhoff'S West Coast is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology.
From Heaven to Earth
Images and Experiences of Development in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Much has been written of China's peasant revolution, less has been written on the peasant experience of reform. In From Heaven to Earth Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualisations...
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation,...
National Healths
Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare....
Traders in Motion
Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding...
The Structure of Indian Society
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
This book explores the structural features of Indian society, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, sanskritization and untouchability. Based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material, the book
Interrogates the prevailing thinking in Indian sociology on these structures;
Studies...
Pagan Christmas
Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley in the Chitral district of Pakistan, focusing on their winter feasts, which culminate every year in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha are not only the last example of a pre-Islamic culture...
Castes of Mind
Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the politics...
Life and Words
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das...