An Anthropology of Anthropology: Is It Time to Shift Paradigms, Paperback - Robert Borofsky

Reducere. DescriptionAs the book's title suggests, this book uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology as an academic d...

Contributor(s): Author: Tim IngoldHumanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms ...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Judith (Western Washington University) PinePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 216 x 274 x 18Cover type: P...

Reducere. Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthrop...

In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they...

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In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful...

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

This invaluable text, written by one of the world's most influential black scholars, re-imagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joy HendrySharing Our Worlds offers readers the perfect introduction to cultural and social anthropology, introducing the c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Faye V. Harrison"provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology." Bolles ...

Examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to ...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdNumber of pages: 180Collection: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book SeriesPublicati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 31 colour and 53 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 24C...

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Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author u...

A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologistsPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s):...

Reducere. Children of God in the World is a textbook of theological anthropology structured in four parts. The first attempts to clarify the relationship bet...

This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand the development of human b...

DescriptionIn this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best schol...

DescriptionThe most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published...

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Reducere. Note Formerly published as an ebook titled Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic. Now available in paperback.Across the globe and through t...

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh In God's Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spiri...

Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a h...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Eviatar ZerubavelNumber of pages: 187Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 232 x 166 x 13Cover typ...

Reducere. Welcome to the second edition of Perspectives and Open Access Anthropology We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of ch...

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machi...

Reducere. Welcome to Explorations and biological anthropology Mission Statement: To provide a high-quality introductory biological anthropology textbook that...

Reducere. A new, fully revised edition of this bestselling textbook in linguistic anthropology, updated to address the impacts of globalization, pandemics, a...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. S...

This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own en...

DescriptionA lifetime of knowing. Decades of praying. Years of paperwork, research, and planning. Lots of tears. And the growing of faith in the wa...

Kant's anthropological works represent a very different side of his philosophy, one that stands in sharp contrast to the critical philosophy of the...

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practica...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Anthony J. (University of Warwick, UK) LiddicoatIllustration(s): 13 bw illusNumber of pages: 448...

A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annett...

DescriptionWhat happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not tho...

Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores our human relationship with the ti...

Is it true that religion is weakening in modern times or are we facing religious resurgence? What is fundamentalism? This book addresses such quest...

Reducere. Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-...

The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing asp...

Reducere. Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anth...

Reducere. How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biolo...

A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world