Sage Publications, 2005. - 2610 p. ISBN: 0761930299 This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology,...
7 edition. — Prentice Hall, 2011. — 672 p. Language: English ISBN10: 0205181023 ISBN13: 978-0205181025 Societal Organization and Globalization in Anthropology Anthropology introduces students to the four fields of anthropology. It integrates historical, biological, archaeological, and global approaches with ethnographic data available from around the world. Additionally,...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014. —688 p. — ISBN10: 0262019949; ISBN13: 978-0262019941 Interdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition,...
Routledge, 1994. - 1201 p. General introduction. Tim Ingold. The contributors. Humanity. Introduction to humanity. Tim Ingold. Humanity and animality. Tim Ingold. The evolution of early hominids. Phillip VTobias. Human evolution: the last one million years. Clive Gamble. The origins and evolution of language. Philip Lieberman. Tools and tool behaviour. Thomas Wynn. Niche...
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. — xvi + 332 p. — ISBN: 0-691-02634-3. Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 248 p. Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability - people are just smarter than all the rest. But in...
3rd Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 288 p. The third edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connecting important concepts to current global issues. A question-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader cross-cultural context while building an appreciation for...
Berg, 2006. — 241 p. Where and what is Ireland?-What are the identities of the people of Ireland?-How has European Union policy shaped Irish people's lives and interests? This book argues that such questions can be answered only by understanding everyday aspects of Irish culture and identity. Such understanding is achieved by paying close attention to what people in Ireland...
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 2013. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-08910-2. There is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reaction that makes us draw back, lip curled, when we step on dog dirt is also constantly at play in our lives. It is...
McGraw-Hill, 2008. — 706 p. Part One Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism The Social Organism (1860) The Science of Culture (1871) Ethnical Periods (1877) Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1845-1846) The Foundations of Sociological Thought What Is a Social Fact? (1895) The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class (1912) Excerpts from The...
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 1350030252; ISBN13: 978-1350030251. If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a 'posthuman condition'; the combination of new developments-such...
Chichester, UK. Wiley-Blackwell6 2013. — 563 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology). The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizations Details how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology’s key concept of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 292 p. All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible ‘social’ and ‘biological’ approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society, and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view...
Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Jean Jamin. Gallimard. 1992. – 956 p. Language: French Quality: the text was recognized with illustrations and placed in the html file, the text was not proofread after OCR, many errors. Le Cahier beige (manuscrit N1; 106 p.], aux feuilles tramées à l'anglaise, couvre la période allant de la fin octobre 1922* au 12 septembre 1925. Le...
Springer, 2019. — 374 p. — (Space and Society). — ISBN: 978-3-030-25019-5. This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It examines adaptation to space on timescales of generations, rather than merely months or years, and uses evolutionary adaptation as a guiding theme. Employing the lessons of evolutionary adaptation,...
D. Appleton and Co, 1896. — 448 p. Man - ancient and modern Races of mankind Language Language and race Writing Arts of life Arts of pleasure Science The spirit world History and mythology Society
Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 9783658198251; ISBN13: 978-3658198251 Mira Menzfeld explores dying persons’ experiences of their own dying processes. She reveals cultural specificities of pre-exital dying in contemporary Germany, paying special attention to how concepts of dying ‘(un)well’ are perceived and realized by dying persons. Her methodological focus...
5th Ed. — McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-078116-95-3. This introductory text in general anthropology truly integrates the subfields of anthropology. Unlike other "four-field" texts, it is not divided by subfield but is organized by the topics that anthropology studies, showing how all the subfields contribute to our knowledge of the human species. It is...
University of California Press, 2013. — 224 p. Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming...
London: Penguin Books, 1990. — 336 p. Lewontin, Rose and Kamin identify themselves as "respectively an evolutionary geneticist, a neurobiologist, and a psychologist." They criticize biological determinism and reductionism, and state that they share a commitment to the creation of a socialist society and a recognition that "a critical science is an integral part of the struggle...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 237 p. — ISBN: 1107055199. This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of this problem misguidedly try to solve it by using variants of the Cartesian conception of the mind, and shows that combining the Aristotelian conception with Darwin's theory provides us with far more...
London: Penguin Books, 1990. — 336 p. Lewontin, Rose and Kamin identify themselves as "respectively an evolutionary geneticist, a neurobiologist, and a psychologist." They criticize biological determinism and reductionism, and state that they share a commitment to the creation of a socialist society and a recognition that "a critical science is an integral part of the struggle...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 232 p. Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees. Many discussions of such relationships highlight the exceptional qualities of the human members of the category, insisting for instance on their religious beliefs or creativity. In contrast, the...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2004. — p 645. ISBN: 0-631-22352-5. A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic...
Cambridge University Press. 1997. — p 417. ISBN-10 0521449936. In this textbook, first published in 1997, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of linguistic anthropology are introduced through a discussion of linguistic...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 356 p. Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s,...
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