Manchester University Press, 2014. — 336 p. How might the anthropological study of cosmologies the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in...
Routledge, 2015. — 392 p. How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 568 p. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Featuring contributions from a wide range of distinguished contemporary scholars of Middle East anthropology, chapters encompass the entire breadth of the...
Pluto Press, 2006. — 240 p. Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: the contributors explore the expression of individuality as a form of social action inextricably linked to questions of belonging. This book addresses a continuing effort within anthropology to interrogate sociality....
Routledge, 2004. — 896 p. Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological...
Wadsworth Publishing, 2012. — 400 p. Written by the experienced author team of Susan Andreatta and Gary Ferraro, "Elements of Culture: An Applied Perspective" is a concise new text for the cultural anthropology course. It covers all the major topics in a traditional course in twelve brief chapters that allow readers to access the main concepts quickly. The book's streamlined...
Madrid: Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces, 2008. — 725 p. — ISBN13: 978-84-8004-713-5. This substantial volume treats the kinship anthropology. In the introduction the author deals with topics such as ethnocentrism and anthropology, culture and society, the kinhip for us (El parentesco para nosotros ), biology and culture, history of the discipline. Chapter 1 concerns...
Routledge, 2018. — 214 p. Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and also debating a "new animism". It is increasingly recognised that the boundaries between the "natural" and "social" sciences are of heuristic value but might...
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. — 248 p., 14 ills. Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are...
Reprint edition — Eland, 2012. — 192 p. The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline. Although set amongst a little-known tribe in the Cameroons, this slim volume reaches...
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. — 196 p. — ISBN: 0521749298. The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social...
London & New York: Routledge, 2002. — 664 p. — ISBN: 0-203-25684-0. If anthropology is indeed the most encyclopedic of disciplines, it is not especially well-served with reference works of its own. This book aims to meet some of the need for an accessible and provocative guide to the many things that anthropologists have had to say. It focuses on the biggest and most...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. — 288 p. This book provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 208 p. — ISBN: 1107025699; 1107651093. Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press,...
Routledge, 1999. — 188 p. About This Book “I Have a Dream”—but Who Is It For? Civil Rights, Human Rights, or Community Rights? From Dreaming to Meaning: The Multicultural Triangle National Culture, Ethnic Culture, Religion as Culture The Nation-State, I: Postethnic or Pseudotribe? Why Nation-States Are Not Ethnically Neutral The Nation-State, II: Business or Temple? Why...
Charles Bell, 1968. — 431 p. The present book is an attempt to speak about the life of the Tibetan people in their own homes. The contents are leaved on the author`s first-hand knowledge of Tibetan life during a residence of nearly twenty years from conversation with his Tibetan acquaintances in their own language not through interpreters. In order to keep this volume within...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. — 291 p. A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, "Patterns of Culture" is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies - the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of...
Boston, New York : A Mariner Book, 2005. — 320 p. A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of...
Univ. Of California Press, 2001. — 280 p. Many people living far away from Indian reservations express sympathy for the poverty and misery experienced by Native Americans, yet, Thomas Biolsi argues, the problems faced by Native Americans are the results of white privilege. In "Deadliest Enemies", Biolsi connects the origins of racial tension between Indians and non-Indians on...
Sage Publications, Inc., 2010. — 1144 p. Via 100 entries or "mini-chapters", "21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook" highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of anthropology ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. This two-volume set provides undergraduate majors with an...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 416 p. A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology. In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this...
5th edition — AltaMira Press, 2011. — 648 p. This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas to show how ideological, social...
6th Edition — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 414 p. Victims of Progress , now in its sixth edition, offers a compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world. Bodley’s expansive look at the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies, and the colonists and corporate developers who have infringed their...
Routledge, 2016. — 494 p. The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, featuring contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Each chapter presents a brief historical summary of research in the field and discusses topics and issues of current concern to people doing research in linguistic anthropology. The handbook is...
3rd Edition — Pearson Education, 2013. — 552 p. Cultural Anthropology is a leading textbook that integrates the important issues of globalization and culture change in every chapter by introducing students to the concepts and methods that anthropologists bring to the study of cross-cultural diversity. Nancy Bonvillain, a best-selling author in linguistics, gender and Native...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. — VII, 456 p. The authors' interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a...
Foreword by Stephen Hugh-Jones. Afterword by Piers Vitebsky — Berghahn Books, 2014. — 266 p. Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such...
London: Routledge, 2015. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 1409453731; ISBN13: 978-1409453734. An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 336 p. The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely, however, do native communities benefit materially from this use of their heritage, a situation that drives growing resistance to what some...
American Anthropological Association, 2017. — 486 p. We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 288 p. Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them apart from their non-Indigenous...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 352 p. In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation offers a methodology whereby we can face our shared planetary predicament. It is grounded in process philosophy, and asserts the importance of a new ontology of agency. It...
Cambridge, MA; London, UK: A Bradford Book; MIT Press, 2010. — 338 p. — ISBN10: 0262513978; ISBN13: 978-0262513975 — (Topics in Contemporary Philosophy) The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience — it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all —...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 1416 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4516-1147-2. Culture Shock: My First Year in the Field Discovering the Significance of the Names Raids and Revenge: Why Villages Fission and Move Bringing My Family to Yanomamoland and My Early Encounters with the Salesians First Contact with New Yanomamo Villages Geography Lesson From Fieldwork to Science Conflicts over Women...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 544 p. Napoleon Chagnon’s "Noble Savages" is the remarkable memoir of a life dedicated to science - and a revealing account of the clash between science and political activism. When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, he expected to find Rousseau’s "noble savage". Instead he found a shockingly...
Routledge, 2014. — 184 p. The advent of social media offers anthropologists exciting opportunities to extend their research to communities in fresh ways. At the same time, these technological developments open up anthropological fieldwork to different hazards. "Networked Anthropology" explores the increasing appropriation of diverse media platforms and social media into...
Routledge, 2014. — 184 p. The advent of social media offers anthropologists exciting opportunities to extend their research to communities in fresh ways. At the same time, these technological developments open up anthropological fieldwork to different hazards. "Networked Anthropology" explores the increasing appropriation of diverse media platforms and social media into...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 1137332204; ISBN13: 978-1137332202. Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience. Prologue: What Is Adoption? Doing What Comes Naturally. Adoption's Long and Often...
New York: Pantheon, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0307908755; ISBN13: 978-0307908759 From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...
New York: Pantheon, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0307908755; ISBN13: 978-0307908759 From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that...
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 208 p. The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies – internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field – tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 240 p. "The Artful Species" explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the...
Duke University Press Books, 2018. — 232 p. A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology,...
University Of Chicago Press, 2013. — 488 p. Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and...
Prickly Paradigm Press, 2013. — 90 p. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 512 p. Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former...
New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991. — 440 p. Cheikh Anta Diop. Barbarism or Civilization: true anthropology (In English) Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) — a historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Cheikh Anta Diop University, in Dakar, Senegal, is named after him. Paleontological Approach. Laws...
The International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, 2018. — 342 p. Birds as Food: Anthropological and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by anthropologists and contributors from other disciplines. Traditions of using birds as food exist in almost all human societies past and present. Over a hundred different species around the world...
Cambria Press, 2007. — 568 p. This highly acclaimed book brings the cumulative results of a century and a half of kinship studies in anthropology into the focus of current debates on the origin of modern humans in Africa and on an entangled bit of human evolutionary history commonly subsumed under the heading of the "peopling of the Americas." This erudite study is based on a...
Rutgers University Press, 1999. — 258 p. Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics. It has become a new tool for modeling...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 408 p. Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives presents all the key areas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction, it helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world...
Monograph, 275 p. 2008, Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0-231-14368-4. Tatau and Malu: Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature. “The Original Queequeg?” Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick. Another Aesthetic: Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo. Marked Ethnics: Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo. Locating the Sign: Visible Culture. Transfer of Engendering Sexuality.
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 336 p. From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subject What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to...
Routledge, 2012. — 281 p. A major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene. This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the...
Pluto Press, 2010. — 308 p. Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being and is a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines a new approach to the subject. The contributors expose a contradiction at the heart of conventional accounts of what constitutes human security, namely that without taking non-material considerations...
London: Pluto Press, 2001. — 349 p. — ISBN 0–7453–1773–1; ISBN 0–7453–1772–3. This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, introducing countless students to the field and the tools it offers for exploring some of the most complicated questions of human life and interaction. This fourth edition is fully updated, incorporating recent...
2nd Edition — Pluto Press, 2017. — 192 p. When it was first published, What Is Anthropology? immediately ignited the discipline, proving how anthropology can be a revolutionary way of thinking about the modern human world. In this fully updated second edition, Thomas Hylland Eriksen brings together examples from current events as well as within anthropological research in order...
Routledge, 2004. — 115 p. The book by one of the greatest anthropologists of the XX century, deals with anthropology subject, methods and rural examples from scientist`s experience.
Praeger, 2009. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-0-313-36431-0. Description of Religious Behaviour The Evolutionary History of Religious Behaviour The Development of Religious Behaviour in the Individual Causes of Religious Behaviour The Adaptivness of Religious Behaviour
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0226244237; ISBN13: 978-0226244235 Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This idea of irony as an integral force in social life is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0226244237; ISBN13: 978-0226244235 Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This idea of irony as an integral force in social life is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where...
Wadsworth Publishing, 2009. — 484 p. Explore cultural anthropology in an applied and fascinating way with Gary Ferraro and Susan Andreatta's “Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective”. This contemporary text is highly relevant to today's students and gives you all the key material you need for your introductory course. With real-world applications of the principles and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 208 p. "Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experiential dimensions of this problematic...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 228 p. Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales - Indonesia, West Africa, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson - Eric Gable shows why the...
Minneapolis, London: University Of Minnesota Press, 2001. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0816637172; ISBN13: 9780816637171. Postcolonial Studies/Cultural Studies. Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community. A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking reflection on the work of cultural...
Pluto Press, 2015. — 224 p. — (Anthropology, Culture & Society) Western aid is in decline. New forms of aid, from within the developing countries themselves and elsewhere, are in the ascent, and a new set of global economic and political processes are shaping development in the twenty-first century. Katy Gardner and David Lewis have completely rewritten and updated their...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. — 270 p. — ISBN: 0-691-04974-2. Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0691143587; ISBN13: 978-0691143583. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the...
3rd edition. — New York: Basic Books, 1985. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0465041620; ISBN13: 978-0465041626. In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion...
Basic Books, 1983. — 256 p. In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of "The Interpretation of Cultures" deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to "The Interpretation of Cultures", this book continues...
New York: Basic Books Inc., 1973. — 470 p. — ISBN: 0465097197, 9780465097197. In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped...
Basic Books, 1973. — 1555 p. — ISBN: 978-0-786-72500-7. In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2001. — 341 p. — (Explorations in Anthropology 47). — ISBN10: 0854968903; ISBN13: 978-0854968909. Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to...
Basil Blackwell, 1965. — 392 p. What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 264 p. A collection of specially commissioned essays dealing with general aspects of kinship, family and marriage from an anthropological point of view, that is, considering the total range of human societies. In his editorial introduction, Jack Goody explains that his aim has been to provide 'essays dealing with general themes rather than...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 186 p. In "Myth, Ritual and the Oral" Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings together some of the most...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. — 192 p. — (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry). In this collection of nine essays, noted anthropologist Jack Goody explores his view of writing as a transforming technology, charting the differences between cultures with writing and those without in such practices as historical record keeping, religious ceremony, and the telling of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. — 272 p. Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why? In this delightful and original book,...
4th ed. edition — Island Press, 1997. — 378 p. For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived as small bands of hunter-gatherers in societies that appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, social equity, and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means examines the...
4th ed. edition — Island Press, 1997. — 378 p. For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived as small bands of hunter-gatherers in societies that appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, social equity, and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means examines the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 337 p. This volume is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological...
Acton: ANU Press, 2018. — 244 p. — ISBN: 9781760462000; 9781760462017 The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some...
Routledge, 2019. — 336 p. This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences. This guide explores ideas around what culture is, when and why cultures change over time and whether there are any rules or principles behind...
Second Edition — W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 560 p. The most successful new textbook in a generation, Ken Guest’s text shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture. Students learn that the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to their life in our globalized world. The new course helps students focus their reading, master the basics, and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 505 p. — 978 — 0 — 393 — 26501 — 9. Part One : Anthropology for the 21st Century. Part Two : Unmasking the Structure of Power. Part Three : Change in the Modern World.
Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. — 285 p. Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the...
AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011. — 448 p. Political correctness in social anthropology has made the terms 'primitive society' 'social evolution' and even 'human nature' unacceptable, and removed the possibility of open academic debate about them. Written from the perspective of a lifetime's research, this collection of papers takes a hard look at these taboos, and challenges some...
AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011. — 448 p. Political correctness in social anthropology has made the terms 'primitive society' 'social evolution' and even 'human nature' unacceptable, and removed the possibility of open academic debate about them. Written from the perspective of a lifetime's research, this collection of papers takes a hard look at these taboos, and challenges some...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — ix, 120 p. While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — ix, 120 p. While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role...
Random House, 2024. — 496 p. What Is Information? Stories: Unlimited Connections. Documents: The Bite of the Paper Tigers. Errors: The Fantasy of Infallibility. Decisions: A brief History of Democracy and Totalitarianism. The New Members: How Computers Are Different from Printing Presses. Relentless: The Network Is Always On. Fallible: The Network Is Often Wrong. Democracies:...
Random House, 2024. What Is Information? Stories: Unlimited Connections. Documents: The Bite of the Paper Tigers. Errors: The Fantasy of Infallibility. Decisions: A Brief History of Democracy and Totalitarianism. The New Members: How Computers Are Different from Printing Presses. Relentless: The Network Is Always On. Fallible: The Network Is Often Wrong. Democracies: Can We...
Prima edizione italiana condotta sulla seconda edizione americana. — Zanichelli, 1998. – 447 p. I fascicoli che l'editore Zanichelli ha ora dato alle stampe integrano e completano il celebre manuale di "Antropologia culturale" di Marvin Harris, presentando così al pubblico italiano il testo completo dell'ultima edizione americana (la sesta) del 1993. Tale integrazione si rivela...
Vintage Books, 1991. — 368 p. In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior - often so puzzling at first glance - can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution...
Berghahn Books, 2013. — 268 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology) One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life , this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim¹s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple...
Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. - 456 p. Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of "Cultural Anthropology": The Human Challenge provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you...
4th Edition — Cengage Learning, 2015. — 416 p. Filled with current examples, The Essence of Anthropology brings to life anthropology's key concepts and their great relevance to today's complex world. You'll learn about the varied ways culture helps humans adapt to face the challenges of existence, the connection between human culture and human biology, and the impact of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 440 p. In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 256 p. Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often bump up against issues that require them to take a public position-issues such...
Springer, 2019. — 186 p. This book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as...
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1970 — 413 p. — (Classics in Anthropology) A. M. Hocart's original text was first published in 1936 by the Printing Office Paul Barbey, Cairo Editor's Introduction Rules of Evidence The Witnesses Opening the Case Nature The World The Good Centralization The King The Estates of the Realm The Law War The Church and the State The...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 368 p. A classic work in the anthropology of law, this book offered one of the first ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties that are treated as law among nonliterate peoples (labeled "primitive" at the time of the original publication). The heart of the book is a description and analysis of the law of five...
University Of Chicago Press, 2012. — 344 p. Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifá, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, Truth in Motion reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different, and highly respected, model. Acutely focusing on Ifá, Martin Holbraad takes...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN: 9780198712381. Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood. Trust: A History offers a new perspective on the ways in which trust and distrust have functioned in past society, providing an empirical and historical basis against which the present...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 272 p. Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines concerned with the growing...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. — 1975. — 175 p. — ISBN10: 068414428X; ISBN13: 978-0684144283. Traces the historical patterns of prohibition and increased use of mood- and perception-altering and vision-inducing drugs, describing shifting social attitudes and the status of such drugs in today's world. . Drugs and Shamanism. Drugs and the Priesthood. The Impact of Drugs on...
Routledge, 2017. — 104 p. There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others. In this provocative book, he goes beyond an exploration of the interface between the disciplines of anthropology...
Routledge, 2015. — 172 p. To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History , it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first...
Routledge, 2015. — 172 p. To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History , it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first...
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. — 469 p. Note on Authors Preface and Acknowledgments Communities in Context Postcolonial Development and Sustainability Engaged Theory and Social Mapping Situating Communities Communities in Place Urban and Periurban Communities Hinterland Communities Remote Communities Community Development Informal Economies and Community...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0415278090; ISBN13: 978-0415278096. First published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience initiated the psychological study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as for clinical and paranormal branches of psychology. Written with humour and erudition, its theories of conversion, saintliness, ecstasy and...
London: Pluto Press, 2008. — 213 p. The concept of well-being has emerged as a key category of social and political thought, especially in the fields of moral and political philosophy, development studies and economics. This book takes a critical look at the notion of well-being by examining what well-being means, or could mean, to people living in a number of different regions...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192853465; ISBN13: 978-0192853462. "If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the...
2nd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 382 p. In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 288 p. This original introduction to cultural anthropology is a textbook like no other. Structured as a narrative rather than a compendium of facts about cultures and concepts, it invites students to think of anthropology as a series of stories that emerge from cultural encounters in particular times and places. These moments of encounter...
Monograph. - Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. - 407 p. Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals which forced...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. — lix; 382 p. — ISBN: 0-299-14284-1 A.M. Khazanov's global and comparative study of pastoral nomadism is a quite outstanding scholarly achievement. Astonishingly, this task had not been attempted before. It very much needed doing, and it is a remarkable piece of good fortune that, the first time it was attempted, it should be done so...
Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2012. — 173 p. Our genes determine to a large extent who we are as individuals and why we are different from the other human beings. In this book, Hippokratis Kiaris explores how various genetic polymorphisms in different ethnic populations may affect the development of distinct cultures and eventually historical decisions. It should...
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 628 p. This text evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the US colonial administration and the discipline of anthropology itself. It analyzes the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examines...
The Experiment, LLC, 2014. — 273 p. — ISBN: 1615190902. This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest"-and invites us all to think and act more altruistically The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan...
Yale University Press, 1995. — 592 p. The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of how this symbolic domain originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biography and social anthropology within a Marxist...
University of California Press, 2013. — 288 p. Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human — and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo...
McGraw-Hill, 2010. - 721 p. ISBN: 0078116996 Focused on the appreciation of anthropology, the new edition of Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity offers an up-to-date holistic introduction to general anthropology from the four-field perspective. Key themes of appreciating the experiences students bring to the classroom, appreciating human diversity, and appreciating the...
11th Edition — McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 400 p. Written by a prominent scholar in the field, Conrad Phillip Kottak, this concise, student-friendly, current introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. New to this edition, Connect Anthropology offers a variety of learning tools and activities to make...
16th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. — 385 p. — ISBN: 9780077861537. A leading name in anthropology, Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the cultural anthropology course. Cultural Anthropology offers an up-to-date holistic introduction to general anthropology from the four-field perspective. Key themes of appreciating the experiences students...
Tarcher, 2005. — 256 p. An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world. With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think. Enlisting thirteen anthropologists and a fat activist, editors...
Monograph. - Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2000. - 320 p. Adam Kuper pursues the concept of culture from the early twentieth century debates to its adoption by American social science under the tutelage of Talcott Parsons. The core of this book is an evaluation of what has been the central project in postwar American cultural anthropology. More explicitly, in the...
4th Edition — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 252 p. In this concise introduction to cultural anthropology, now in its 4th edition, Lassiter takes a fresh and accessible approach to stimulating student interest in the human experience. He uses timely and engaging examples to showcase the ongoing relevance of anthropology today. He also explores how the anthropological...
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2019. — 266 p. The practice of sharing food among hunting and gathering societies has attracted significant scholarly attention from anthropological, evolutionary and archaeological perspectives. This edited monograph offers to broaden the view of the practice of sharing to include sharing of space,...
Eleventh printing — Aldine De Gruyter, 1987. — 428 p. First published in 1968, Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter . Social...
Translated from the French by J. H. Bell, J. R. von Sturmer and R. Needham (ed.). Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. - 524 p. Nature and culture Nature and society. The problem of the transition from nature to society. `Wild children.' The superior forms of animal life. The criterion of universality. The prohibition of incest as a universal rule. The problem of incest Rationalist...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. — 166 p. Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential...
Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN: 3-518-27614-X - 310 p. "Das, was ich als Wildes Denken zu definieren versucht habe, lässt sich nicht als spezifisch wem auch immer zuschreiben, sei es nun irgendein Teil oder ein Typus der Zivilisation. Es hat überhaupt keinen prädikativen Charakter. Ich würde vielmehr sagen, dass ich mit dem Wilden Denken das System der Postulate...
Paris: Plon, 1962. — 397 p. En utilisant le thème de l'ethnologie traditionnelle l'auteur cherche à décrire les mécanismes de la pensée en tant qu'attribut universel de l'esprit humain. Pour lui, la pensée sauvage est présente en tout homme tant qu'elle n'a pas été cultivée et domestiquée à « fins de rendement ». Par l'utilisation de l'idée de rendement, il met en opposition...
Gallimard, 1987. — 127 p. La diversité des cultures, la place de la civilisation occidentale dans le déroulement historique et le rôle du hasard, la relativité de l'idée de progrès, tels sont les thèmes majeurs de Race et histoire. Dans ce texte écrit dans une langue toujours claire et précise, et sans technicité exagérée, apparaissent quelques-uns des principes sur lesquels se...
Basic Books, 1963. — 440 p. Translator’s Preface Introduction: History and Anthropology Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology Language and the Analysis of Social Laws Linguistics and Anthropology Postscript to Chapters III and IV The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil Do Dual Organizations Exist? The Sorcerer and...
Columbia University Press, 2016. - 170 p. On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom...
Rutgers University Press, 2016. — 310 p. Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark collection of essays provides a...
Reprint edition — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 256 p. Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by...
First published in the United States of America by McGraw-Hill, 2001/This revised and updated edition published by Oneworld Publications, 2007. — 479 p. list of boxes time line Who Am I? The Search for the Self Culture and the individual in western philosophy The Discovery of the Individual Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes The anthropology of personal being how “Other” Is the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 252 p. — (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion). According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists,...
Duke University Press, 2007. — 704 p. Note on the Format of the Book Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock : Introduction Friedrich Engels : On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man Robert Hertz : The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity Marcel Granet : Right and Left in China Marcel Mauss : Techniques of the Body Victor Turner :...
Newfound Press, 2013. — xv, 403 p. — (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings 42). — ISBN: 0984644563 9780984644568. The Art of Anthropology/The Anthropology of Art brings together thirteen essays, all of which were presented at the March 2011 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society (SAS) in Richmond, Virginia. Collectively, the essays in this volume explore...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965. — 634 p. Final book in Malinowski's ethnographic theory concentrates on the cultivation practices the Trobriand Islanders used to grow yams, taro, bananas and palms.It describes the gardens in which the Trobrianders grew food as more than merely utilitarian spaces, even as works of art. In 1988 Alfred Gell called the book "still the...
London: Hutchinson Scientific Books, 1935. — 303 p. The title will, I Trust, be found to cover the somewhat miscellaneous contents of a book which nevertheless has unity in the sense that its working principles are throughout the same. After an Introduction which calls attention to the rich variety of the fare awaiting the student of human culture, Pan I deals with the larger...
Miami, FL: Firmas Press (Biblioteca de Aula), 2010 — 158 p. — ISBN: 9781449222345. The authors Consuelo Martínez Muñiz and Maria N. Ojeda Martín are known for their Introducción general a la antropología (1989). This book (pertaininig to an educational project supported by UNESCO) deals with the nature of culture, its universals, reality and ideality of culture, emic and etic...
London: UCL Press, 2018. — 285 p. — ISBN: 9781787353541; ISBN: 9781787353534. What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people's conventional values is losing its effective power, allowing for new...
SAGE, 2013. — 1053 p. Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted...
Northwestern University Press, 1964. — 376 p. This is a comprehensive approach to music from the point of view of anthropology. The author maintains that ethnomusicology, by definition, must not divorce the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating.
8th ed. — Pearson, 2015. — 456 p. — ISBN: 978-0134419077. Cultural Anthropology presents a balanced introduction to the world’s cultures, focusing on how they interact and change. Author Barbara Miller provides many points where readers can interact with the material, and encourages students to think critically about other cultures as well as their own. Featuring the latest...
Pearson, 2016. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-0134518299. Show students how anthropology can help them understand today’s world. Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World presents a brief, balanced introduction to the world’s cultures, focusing on how they interact and change. Author Barbara Miller encourages students to think critically about other cultures as well as their own, and...
7ª Ed. — Pearson, 2016. — 442 p. La antropología cultural es una apertura a nuevos mundos. Este libro ayuda a los estudiantes a tomar contacto con culturas lejanas y, además, a comprender que su propia cultura, de hecho todas las culturas, tienen su versión de los tambores de la selva y las caras pintadas. ""Hacer familiar lo extraño"" es un aprendizaje esencial en un mundo...
Stanford (California): Stanford University Press, 2004. — 217 p. The Method of Hope examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge — Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. The book discusses the hope entailed in a wide range of Fijian knowledge practices such as archival research, gift giving, Christian...
AltaMira Press, 2009. — 516 p. Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader is an anthology of articles coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists . Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text. Each primary text is followed by a section titled "Queries and Connections", a...
Third Edition — AltaMira Press, 2008. — 416 p. This new edition of Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture presents introductory anthropology students with a brief, readable, and balanced treatment of theoretical developments in the field. Jerry D. Moore is professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and author of Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 576 p. The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice. Foundations and Framing the Discipline. Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts. Aesthetics across Cultures. Form, Style, and Meaning. Part V Marketing Culture. Part VI Contemporary Artists.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 312 p. In both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living, in whole or part, through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These foragertraders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics,...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 420 p. Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise but comprehensive introductory textbook that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology's four major subfields: archaeology, and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. By viewing the world through the lens of anthropology,...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965. Twenty four essays cover a broad range of topics in cultural anthropology, and represent the best writings of George Peter Murdock and reveal his theoretical orientation and his many landmark contributions to the field.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 1040 p. Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at the grass roots and often commanding their...
4th Edition. — Boston, USA: Cengage Learning, 2018. — 410 p. — ISBN: 9781337116152. Framed around the concept of culture, Culture Counts , 4th Edition, uses ethnographic storytelling to draw students into the material and teach valuable critical-thinking skills. The text focuses on how culture directs and explains people's behavior, thereby helping students understand the world...
Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2012. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-111-30153-8; ISBN10: 1-111-30153-0. Framed around the concept of culture, "Culture counts" shows you how culture matters in driving and explaining human behavior, how culture is dynamic, and how it interrelates various cultural systems in adaptive (or maladaptive) ways. The book emphasizes why understanding...
9th edition. — Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA, USA, 2006. — 480 p. Renowned for its outstanding integration of rich ethnographies into the core text, Cultural Anthropology, Ninth Edition continues to bring you excellent coverage of cultures from around the world. The text also continues to emphasize issues of gender, stratification, ethnicity, globalization, and contemporary...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. — 244 p. — ISBN10: 0472050982; ISBN13: 978-0472050987 — (Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life) World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers — officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the...
Utah State University, 2003. — 358 p. — ISBN: 9780874215595. Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions" dispose us to ludic responses....
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 532 p. A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along...
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0745618375; ISBN13: 978-0745618371. This book represents a major contribution to the understanding of time, giving particular attention to time in relation to modernity. The development of industrialism, the author points out, was based upon a linear and abstract conception of time. Today we see that form of production, and...
Routledge 1996. — 244 p. Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in the 'West' is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already 'known' to either Westerners or non Westerners. Revealing some pioneering articles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years, Judith Okely discusses selected themes which include: questions...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0801492408; ISBN13: 978-0801492402. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines — linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history — Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The...
University of Alberta Press, 2018. — 352 p. The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous Peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change. In eight essays, experts survey critical issues surrounding the knowledge practices of the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland and the Northern Sámi of Scandinavia, and the difficulties of...
Routledge, 2016. — 242 p. With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of...
Berghahn Books, 2013. — 264 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology). The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies...
Wadsworth Publishing; 9 edition (January 1, 2011). — 476 p. Language: English ISBN10: 1111301522 ISBN13: 978-1111301521 Using engaging stories and clear writing, Cengage advantage books: Humanity: An introduction to cultural anthropology, Ninth Edition, introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered on globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, New York, 2016. — 263 p. — ISBN: 1472592565. As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material...
The University of Chicago Press, 1958. — 216 p. Essays by Radcliffe-Brown on the nature of anthropological studies, the meaning and scope of social anthropology, the comparative method in social anthropology, the formation of social anthropology, social structure, and social evolution.
D. Appleton and Company, 1927. — 402 p. Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin’s "Primitive Man as Philosopher" a seminal piece of anthropological inquiry is that it is also a book of enduring wonder. Writing in the 1920s, when anthropology was still young, Radin set out to...
D. Appleton and Company, 1927. — 402 p. Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin’s "Primitive Man as Philosopher" a seminal piece of anthropological inquiry is that it is also a book of enduring wonder. Writing in the 1920s, when anthropology was still young, Radin set out to...
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003 - 477 p. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal guide to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: Cybernetics Human Rights Kinship Ecriture Feminine Alterity Thick Description Gossip Stereotypes Violence
Springer, 2019. — 154 p. This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the "Arctic" through the everyday experiences of children. It explores the Arctic as various materializations that matter to, condition and define childhoods in Nordic countries. Presenting nine thematically very different but theoretically and methodologically coherent studies, it enables readers to gain...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 342 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-14356-2. The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of...
Springer, 2017. — 257 p. This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems to more broad-scale and...
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007 — 208 p. — ISBN10: 159213579X; ISBN13: 978-1592135790. For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 140518289X; ISBN13: 978-1405182898. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present...
University of Chicago Press, 1996. — 328 p. When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In "How...
Cornell University Press, 1990. — 432 p. Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures - Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead - and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts,...
Cornell University Press, 1990. — 432 p. Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures - Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead - and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts,...
University of Pennsylvania, 1985. — 357 p. In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified)...
Paris: Karthala, 1998. — 410 p. — ISBN: 2-86537-836-5. En montrant que les sociétés étudiées par les ethnologues étaient elles aussi soumises aux nécessités économiques de produire des richesses avant que de les échanger, Claude Meillassoux a considérablement élargi l’horizon de l’anthropologie. Les outils de l’analyze marxistes devenaient opérants: critique de l’économie...
Routledge, 2001. — 240 p. Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. "Anthropology of Violence and Conflict" seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well...
Left Coast Press, 2009. — 320 p. This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples - both past and present - to...
9th Edition. — Pearson Education, 2016. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-0-13-400897-4. A Global Perspective acquaints students with the cultural discipline of anthropological studies. The text recognizes that in the nature of our 21st century world, humans need a much greater capacity for understanding different cultures than ever before. By examining classical and current research, the...
NY: Pearson, 2011. - 480 p. 8th Edition ISBN10: 0205158803 ISBN13: 9780205158805 Provides students with an introduction to cultural anthropology through a traditional holistic and integrative approach. Organized by societal type, this book's primary emphasis is on applied anthropology, with a strong coverage of globalization. Additionally, it emphasizes three unifying themes:...
Berghahn Books, 2013. — 284 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology). Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 264 p. This major new work by Professor Anthony D. Smith challenges the notion of nationalism as a product of modernity. Major new work by a leading historical sociologist Challenges the prevailing idea of nationalism as a product of modernity Demonstrates that different political forms of community and collective identity from pre-modern times have...
London, New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. — 250 p. Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an interest in questions of timing...
Routledge, 2010. — 285 p. This concise introductory textbook emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time. Reviewers describe the text as vivid, rich, user-friendly, accessible, and well-organized. The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft examines religious...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 246 p. — ISBN10: 0521808685; ISBN13: 978-0521808682. Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip. It shows how rumour and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 241 p. How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? In response to this anthropological conundrum, Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society – the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at...
Chicago: Reaktion Books, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1861893175; ISBN13: 978-1861893178/ In today’s media-saturated and hyperconnected society, increasing numbers of people are finding it hard to switch off their overstimulated brains and escape the demands of daily life. We are becoming, it seems, a world of insomniacs. But this condition of perpetual unrest has plagued people...
Stanford University Press, 2009. — 312 p. The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been — a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions of social change from an...
Translations from French by Mathilde de Hauteclocque and from the German by Christine Winter. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press, The Australian National University, 2007. — xxii + 267 p. — (Aboriginal History Monograph 15). — ISBN: 9781921313240, ISBN: 9781921313257. Robert Hamilton Mathews (1841-1918) was an Australian-born surveyor and self-taught anthropologist. From 1893...
UCL Press, 2017. — 346 p. "An Anthropology of Landscape" tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts...
Harvard University Press, 2001 — 256 p. Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition identifies what the differences are, and...
University of Arizona Press, 2012. — 360 p. The “Crow-Omaha problem” has perplexed anthropologists since it was first described by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1871. During his worldwide survey of kinship systems, Morgan learned with astonishment that some Native American societies call some relatives of different generations by the same terms. Why? Intergenerational “skewing” in what...
Beresta Books, 2016. — 627 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9961395-2-6. Cooperation is powerful. There aren’t many highly cooperative species — but they nearly cover the planet. Ants alone account for a quarter of all animal matter. Yet the human capacity to work together leaves every other species standing. We organize ourselves into communities of hundreds of millions of individuals,...
Springer, 2009. — 308 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-00128-4 Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousness Gods, Gains, and Genes How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection? The Correlated History of Social Organizations, Morality,and Religion Is There a Particular Role for Idetional Aspects of Religions in Human Behavioral Ecology...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 216 p. Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology’s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning - in terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes...
Random House, 2010. — 228 p. In The Journey of Man, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to our earliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of our distant past. Now, in his thrilling new book, he examines our cultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led us to the path we are on today, one he believes...
University Of Chicago Press, 1993. — 418 p. Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"—Boston's North End — has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years. By mapping the intricate social worlds of street gangs...
University of Namibia Press, 2018. — 107 p. This book is a wonderful celebration of culture and identity, especially from the cultural lens of the various authors' nation of origin. Culture is viewed as a collective programming of the mind and is at times compared to an onion?the more you peel off the layers, the more you get to learn about the values, beliefs, and norms of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2007. — 232 p. Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of Social/Cultural Anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian s writings. In light of Postcolonial concerns, this...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0521123011; ISBN13: 978-0521123013. In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of Lévi-Strauss's...
Basic Books, 2009. — 630 p. — ISBN: 978-0-986-74478-7. Quest for Raw-Foodists The Cook's Body The Energy Theory of Cooking When Cooking Began Brain Foods How Cooking Frees Men The Married Cook The Cook's Journey Epilogue
Berg Publishers, 2008. — 224 p. Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis...
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