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| 1. |  | Title: An anthropology of the subject: holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology Author: Wagner, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectiv . . . [more] Matches in book (64): ...An Anthropology of the Subject... Similar Items...in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology... ...riches) that needs, as he put it, “no external enemy. ” Nor does anthropology.... |
| 2. |  | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicine Author: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multi . . . [more] Matches in book (198): ...Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine... Similar Items...3 Anthropology of Bioethics... ...At the Margin of Medical Anthropology... |
| 3. |  | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropology Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African Studies Publisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more] Matches in book (193): ...Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology... Similar Items...WOLF Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Herbert Lehman College and Graduate... ...Hierarchy in Its Place." Cultural Anthropology 3 (1988): 36-49. Asad, Talal, ed.... |
| 4. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology  Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Matches in book (237): ...History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology... Similar Items...Critique of Anthropology... ...Reconceptualizing Anthropology's Problematic... |
| 5. |  | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Matches in book (420): ...Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954... Similar Items...The "American School" of Anthropology... ...Anthropology and Professional- School Desegregation... |
| 6. |  | Title: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrain Author: Ginsburg, Faye D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Media Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Electronic Media | Postcolonial Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Sociology | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media - film, television, video - are used in societies around the globe, often in places . . . [more] Matches in book (213): ...Anthropology on New Terrain... Similar Items...or a Plebian Public Sphere ? Visual Anthropology Review 10 ( 1 ): 47–60 .... ...1998 . The Politicization of ‘Culture’ . Anthropology Today 14 ( 1 ): 7–15 .... |
| 7. |  | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | Religion Publisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more] Matches in book (235): Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more] Matches in book (350): ...Building an Anthropology of the Modern World... Similar Items...Anthropology... ...Anthropology among the Powers... |
| 9. |  | Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide Author: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Biology | Sociology Publisher's Description: The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious - or more fraught with paradox - than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to . . . [more] Matches in book (160): ...Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide... Similar Items...THE CENTRAL FALLACY OF MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY... ...Introduction Anthropology in an Age of Genetics... |
| 10. |  | Title: Women writing culture Author: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of wom . . . [more] Matches in book (725): ...Maleness, Travel, and Anthropology... Similar Items...Alice Walker as Anthropology's Interlocutor... ...III— DOES ANTHROPOLOGY HAVE A SEX?... |
| 11. |  | Title: What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: apes, people, and their genes Author: Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Evolution | Physical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Mammalogy Publisher's Description: The overwhelming similarity of human and ape genes is one of the best-known facts of modern genetic sciencenm. But what does this similarity mean? Does it, as many have suggested, have profound implications for understanding human nature? Well-known molecular anthropologist Jonathan Marks uses the h . . . [more] Matches in book (142): ...MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY... Similar Items...THE CENTRAL FALLACY OF MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY... ...PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AS LINNAEAN SCIENCE... |
| 12. |  | Title: The life of the law: anthropological projects Author: Nader, Laura Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the s . . . [more] Matches in book (102): ...Palau, and the Contribution of Anthropology. In Anthropological Contributions to... Similar Items...Nader, L. , and A. Sursock. 1986 . Anthropology and Justice. In Justice: Views... ...the past was linked to their legal anthropologies as well as to their visions of... |
| 13. |  | Title: Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America Author: Frank, Gelya 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relati . . . [more] Matches in book (154): ...are suggested by Knauft, “Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts,” 1994 .... Similar Items...life stories are discussed in Frank, “Anthropology and Individual Lives,” 1995 ,... ...31, B4. Gough, Kathleen . 1968 . Anthropology: Child of Imperialism . Monthly... |
| 14. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Matches in book (120): ...Pragmatism in Anthropology... Similar Items...1979. The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. Oxford: Oxford... ...have had too little attention in anthropology since the advent of functionalism... |
| 15. |  | Title: The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia Author: Strathern, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Women's Studies | Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and wi . . . [more] Matches in book (146): ...Feminist Anthropology... Similar Items...Anthropology In The Highlands: Groups... ...Anthropology In The Highlands: Sexual Antagonism... |
| 16. |  | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectives Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more] Matches in book (193): ...INTRODUCTION The Anthropology Of Birth... Similar Items...The Anthropology of Western Childbirth... ...INTRODUCTION The Anthropology Of Birth... |
| 17. |  | Title: The myth of the noble savage Author: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Intellectual History | European History | American Studies | European Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e . . . [more] Matches in book (146): ...Hunt's Racist Anthropology... Similar Items...CHAPTER 14. HUNT'S RACIST ANTHROPOLOGY... ...ANTHROPOLOGY AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY RACISM... |
| 18. |  | Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...operations in the recent history of anthropology. 2. The results of this study... Similar Items...Power." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2:131–172. Brown, Roger W. , and A.... ...51. Jenkins, Janis H. 1991. "Anthropology, Expressed Emotion and Schizophrenia."... |
| 19. |  | Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Matches in book (63): ...Tribe and State in Anthropology... Similar Items...Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York, 1983), pp. 121-146. 34.... ...and Jeremy A. Sabloff, eds. , American Anthropology Past and Future (Washington,... |
| 20. |  | Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Matches in book (120): ...studies, psychology, social anthropology, and the humanities. Above all, the... Similar Items...New Guinea . Research in Economic Anthropology 7 : 95–122 . Barnes, J. A. 1962 .... ...In L. Holy , ed. , Comparative Anthropology , pp. 119–134 . Oxford : Basil... |