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Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316101932

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Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.

Author : Julia C. Morris
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1398807303

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Study the diverse cultures of the world and the common threads of humanity in this wonderfully visual guide to anthropology, covering everything you would find on a degree course. A Degree in a Book: Anthropology dives deep into the study of human culture and societies. Discover the impact of language on understanding, how different societies approach family and kinship and how different cultures are studied, as well as how anthropology is used in our everyday lives - applied anthropology. This accessible landscape-format guide is perfect for students and laypeople alike, featuring full-color infographics, flow charts, diagrams summary sections and ideas for further reading. Including theories from Herodotus to Malinowski and Durkeim to de Waal, it covers all the major strands of anthropology that are studied today. Subjects covered include: • Fieldwork and Ethnography • Biological Anthropology • Language and Cognition • Gifting and Economic Systems • Exchange and Consumption • Globalization and Transnationalism ABOUT THE SERIES: Get the knowledge of a degree for the price of a book in Arcturus Publishing's A Degree in a Book series. Featuring handy timelines, information boxes, feature spreads and margin annotations, these landscape-format books are perfect for anyone wishing to master seemingly complex subject with ease and enjoyment.

Author : Samuli Schielke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857455079

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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845451226

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Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786723750

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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 Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.

Author : Sune Liisberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782385576

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The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy.

Author : George Stocking
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1991-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0029315514

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In this fascinating and erudite work, George Stocking, America's most renowned historian of anthropology, probes the Victorian origins of contemporary thought on human social and cultural evolution. George Stocking examines the portrayal of primitive peoples by Victorian travellers and missionaries. He shows how their attitudes towards the dark-skinned savages corresponded to their view of the proletarian masses produced by the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Melvin Konner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0142196320

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Far reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. With historical insight and vivid storytelling, renowned anthropologist Melvin Konner charts how the Jews endured largely hostile (but at times accepting) cultures to shape the world around them and make their mark throughout history—from the pastoral tribes of the Bronze Age to enslavement in the Roman Empire, from the darkness of the Holocaust to the creation of Israel and the flourishing of Jews in America. With fresh interpretations of the antecedents of today's pressing conflicts, Unsettled is a work whose modern-day reverberations could not be more relevant or timely.

Author : Virginia R. Dominguez
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785333615

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There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here offer a critique of such an absence, exploring its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. This volume contains an introduction written by the editors and fieldwork-based essays written by Helena Wulff, Jasmin Habib, Limor Darash, Ulf Hannerz, and Moshe Shokeid, and reflections on the broad issue written by Geoffrey White, Keiko Ikeda, and Jane Desmond. Suitable for introductory and mid-level anthropology courses, America Observed will also be useful for American Studies courses both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Author : Steven N. Byers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317347366

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Introduction to Forensic Anthropology provides an overview of the methods used by forensic anthropologists to examine human skeletal remains, describing each step in the forensic anthropological process with equal intensity.