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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 anthropologyAuthor: Wagner, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and MythologyPublisher'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......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.... Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicineAuthor: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher'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):Similar Items | 3. | | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher'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):Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern worldAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher'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):Similar Items | 5. | | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropologyAuthor: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African StudiesPublisher'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......WOLF Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Herbert Lehman College and Graduate......Hierarchy in Its Place." Cultural Anthropology 3 (1988): 36-49. Asad, Talal, ed.... Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrainAuthor: 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 | SociologyPublisher'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......or a Plebian Public Sphere ? Visual Anthropology Review 10 ( 1 ): 47–60 .......1998 . The Politicization of ‘Culture’ . Anthropology Today 14 ( 1 ): 7–15 .... Similar Items | 7. | | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia OtherPublisher'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):Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocideAuthor: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | ReligionPublisher'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 | 9. | | Title: Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divideAuthor: Goodman, Alan H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Biology | SociologyPublisher'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):Similar Items | 10. | | Title: The life of the law: anthropological projectsAuthor: Nader, Laura Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | LawPublisher'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......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... Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Women writing cultureAuthor: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | SociologyPublisher'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):Similar Items | 12. | | Title: The myth of the noble savageAuthor: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Intellectual History | European History | American Studies | European Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher'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):Similar Items | 13. | | Title: What it means to be 98% chimpanzee: apes, people, and their genesAuthor: Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Evolution | Physical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | MammalogyPublisher'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):Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisisAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher'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......1979. The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. Oxford: Oxford......have had too little attention in anthropology since the advent of functionalism... Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectivesAuthor: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | MedicinePublisher'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):Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in AmericaAuthor: Frank, Gelya 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 .......life stories are discussed in Frank, “Anthropology and Individual Lives,” 1995 ,......31, B4. Gough, Kathleen . 1968 . Anthropology: Child of Imperialism . Monthly... Similar Items | 17. | | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progressAuthor: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more]Matches in book (62):...Los Angeles: Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California,......Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology), Leiden. Fig. 82: Drawing by Magü.......Benedict, Burton. 1983. The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's... Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledgeAuthor: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more]Matches in book (51):...in Medicine and the Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal.......is a Director of Studies in South Asian Anthropology and the History of Science,......who helped to create medical anthropology through her foresight in establishing... Similar Items | 19. | | Title: The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality Author: Weiner, James F Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: AnthropologyPublisher's Description: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a . . . [more]Matches in book (27):...NJ: Prentice-Hall. Godelier, M. 1977. Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology . (......Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology No. 18. ) Cambridge: Cambridge......Account." Southwest Journal of Anthropology , 28(3):230-254. Vicedom, G. F.... Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Native American EthnicityPublisher's Description: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its cen . . . [more]Matches in book (74):...Perspectives on the History of Anthropology , edited by Sydel Silverman . New......three, all graduate students in anthropology at Berkeley in the mid-1960s, was......against culture . In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , edited... Similar Items |
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