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...
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:...
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...
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24:2, 223-236, DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2012.704756 Indigenous iron working was the only means by which the Igede of central Nigeria sourced their various kinds of iron objects, which served as farming implements and weapons for hunting or battle in pre-colonial times. However, with the commencement of colonial activities in the area, there was...
Solomon Sheldon, Greenberg Jeff, Pyszcynski Thomas, 2015, 288 p., Random House, 9781400067473. The Worm at the Core is the product of twenty-five years of in-depth research. Drawing from innovative experiments conducted around the globe, Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski show conclusively that the fear of death and the desire to transcend it inspire us to buy expensive cars,...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. — 321 p. Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four-year universities. Third Edition: Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action. Introduction to the Anthropology of Health. Introduction and Overview. Encountering Health Anthropology. Three...
New York: Routledge, 2016. — 424 p. The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia, and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology. A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in...
3rd edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 460 p. The editors of the third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology bring it completely up-to-date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background descriptions and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical,...
Springer, 2021. — 395 p. This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical education and aims to positively influence the future careers of anthropologists who are currently engaged or are considering a career in medical education. The volume is essential for medical educators, administrators, researchers, and practitioners, those interested in the history of...
14th edition. — Pearson Education, 2015. — 688 p. — ISBN: 978-0-205-95718-7. Anthropology provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the holistic four fields of anthropology and the important role of applied anthropology. Readers will understand humans in all their variety, and why such variety exists. It also shows students how anthropological skill...
UCL Press, 2021. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-1-80008-024-9. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted some lives more than others. While more than half the world’s population experienced physical restrictions in the wake of the virus, Viral Loads reveals how the international response placed disparate burdens on exploited communities across the globe. Contributors from six continents situate...
Duke University Press, 2022. — 224 p. India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 288 p. On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 170 p. Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays, however, there is a growing interest in these traditions all over the world. Some are...
Routledge, 2007. — 244 p. Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-driven entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This...
Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2005 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 0335218504; ISBN13: 978-0335218509. Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches, and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health-related behavior. Public health policies and...
Routledge, 1994. — 298 p. The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. The fully revised new edition of the defining reference work in the field of medical anthropology. A Companion to Medical Anthropology, Second Edition provides the most complete account of the key issues and debates in this dynamic, rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions by leading international authorities in...
MIT Press, 1995. — 381 p. Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation — its computational basis, its...
New York: Wiley-Iste, 2019. — 209 p. It may seem obvious that the human being has always been present in anthropology. This book, however, reveals that he has never really been a part of it. Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being establishes the foundations and conditions, both theoretical and methodological, which make it possible to consider the human being...
Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2018. — 156 p. Leading one’s life as a person is an essential feature of our human existence which is constitutively characterized by finiteness, sociality, and vulnerability. Within the framework of a pragmatistic anthropology central features of our being persons (i.e. personal identity, self-consciousness, freedom, autonomy, and responsibility) are...
Routledge, 2023. — 516 p. — ISBN: 978-1-350-10831-8. How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study? Philosophy on Fieldwork provides...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 294 p. For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology and the information sciences, archivists, and librarians to offer in-depth discussions...
Berghahn Books, 2005. — 256 p. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings, and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector, this volume...
6th Edition. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 728 p. H. Russell Bernard's Research Methods in Anthropology, Sixth Edition, is the standard for learning about the range of methods for collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data about human thought and human behavior. In the first section of the book, students learn the elements of research design,...
Pantheon Books, Random House, 1972. — 482 p. — ISBN: 0876651139, 9780876651131. Explores the situation in American anthropology, showing that the assumptions of the discipline and its institutional setting have been irreversibly undermined. Discusses why the separation of anthropology from the other social sciences has broken down; and how the role of the interviewer and...
Routledge, 2005. — 160 p. Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century. From identity to multicultural society, new technologies to work, globalization to marginalization, anthropology has a vital contribution...
Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2018, 459 p., ISBN-10: 8308065856, ISBN-13: 978-8308065856. Jakie wyzwania stawia przed ludzkoscia terazniejszosc? Nowa ksiazka autora swiatowych bestsellerów Sapiens i Homo deus. Krótka historia jutra. Yuval Noah Harari, slynny izraelski historyk i wizjoner, w swej najnowszej ksiazce skupia sie nie na przeszlosci ani na mozliwej przyszlosci gatunku...
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology Date: 2005 Published by: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-24178-9 (cloth: alk. paper). — ISBN: 0-520-24179-7 (pbk.: alk. paper). Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first...
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...
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...
University of Hawaii Press, 2018. — 262 p. First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays’...
Melville House Publishing, 2011. — 542 p. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods — that is, long before the invention of coins or cash....
2nd Edition — Smithsonian Books, 2004. — 496 p. This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes . Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies, and as a species. The articles...
Scribe, 2020. — 162 p. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life - all of...