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:...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Dundurn, 2004. — 192 p. John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic and the Arctic. Faces of the North presents a record of...
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...
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,...
Stanford University Press, 1997. — 250 p. Introduction: the nature of political power. The long-term developments of Three Chiefdom's: Denmark, Hawaii, and the Andes. Sources of Economic Power. Military Power: The Strategic Use of Naked Force. Ideology as a Source of Power. Chiefly Power Strategies and the Emergence of Complex political Institutions.
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...
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....
Cambridge: Westview Press, 2001. — 271 p. F.G. Bailey’s classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book’s scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate...
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...
Modern Academic Publishing, 2018. — 362 p. — ISBN: 9783946198390; 9783946198369; 9783946198376; 9783941698383. An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels--one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley--the research is...