Beyond the Body Proper. Reading the Anthropology of Material Life, Paperback - ***

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global or...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan P. MerriamAuthor: Valerie MerriamIn this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a so...

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging varie...

Reducere. Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary m...

Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a co...

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense ...

Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted po...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the An...

How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together t...

DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

Reducere. In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper int...

DescriptionStudy of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heid...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 44 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

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...

F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trac...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

DescriptionA digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East--home to mo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alessandra (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK) LemmaNumber of pages: 182Collection: ...

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging ...

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

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The Secret Language of Your Body unveils the secrets to understanding the messages of your body, revealing the underlying causes of symptoms and me...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, ...

This widely acclaimed study of biblical anthropology is available once more along with a substantial new preface by the author. Fully engaged with ...

Reducere. The goal of Oriental diagnosis is to find unity of body, mind, and spirit. Ohashi shows how both physical and spiritual condition can be revealed i...

DescriptionKaren thinks she's not really white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and she feels as if she doesn't fit in anyw...

Come along for adventure in a time when the world was new and death was unknown. As his kingdom quickly becomes crowded by people, plants, and anim...

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? W...

Reducere. Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our...

Do you want to find out the secrets of body language?Do you want to find out if you can trust that person?If you answered "YES, " keep reading...Wo...

DescriptionBrokenness has become a buzzword. We wear it like a badge, proudly showing off the shattered pieces of our lives--while still fighting t...

Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous, hopef...

DescriptionMore than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movemen...

This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining acco...