Anthropology category: 10809 books
Anthropologists in the SecurityScape
Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what...
Taming Time, Timing Death
Social Technologies and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is...
by Dick Harmon, Melissa A. Connor, Richard A. Fox Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick...
Empire in the Air
Airline Travel and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Examines the role that race played in the inception of the airline industry
Empire in the Air is at once a history of aviation, and an examination of how air travel changed...
Reflexive Ethnography
A Guide to Researching Selves and Others
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic...
South Korean civil movement organisations
Hope, crisis, and pragmatism in democratic transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, post-dictatorship, and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular, it provides a detailed description...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Human Biodiversity
Genes, Race, and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative.
The study of human biology is...
Humanitarians in Hostile Territory
Expeditionary Diplomacy and Aid Outside the Green Zone
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide...
Campsteading
Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one...
Selves in Time and Place
Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals...
The Development State
Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention...
Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation
Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg’s updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertood fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. The following chapters explore cominant...
Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Understanding Australians Consciousness of the Colonial Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The written histories, built memorials and spoken narratives of settler descendants often reveal an absence of Aboriginal people in Australian settlers’ historical consciousness and a lack of empathy for those whose lands were taken over. This absence reflects an intellectual and emotional disconnect...