The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing, Paperback - Edward F. Fischer

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

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...

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

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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...

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 ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark T. MillerProvocative passages on deification abound in St. Augustine of Hippo. He relies on the term deification far m...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Xing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) RuanIllustration(s): 61 bw illusNumber of pages: 368Publ...

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...

This is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve our relationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us a route to a...

The society constructed upon work has collapsed. The answer? Nostalgia.

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

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

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

This accessible textbook covers applied aspects of physiology related to horticultural crops. It discusses specific physiological processes in rela...

Reducere. 1. The Good Life 4: 56 2. Sweet Lorraine 4: 01 3. For All We Know 5: 19 4. Come Dance with Me 4: 39 5. Change Partners 4: 57 6. Love is Here to Sta...

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DescriptionIn Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to r...

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...

Reducere. When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 per...