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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 101 - 120 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 101. |  | Title: Socialization as cultural communication: development of a theme in the work of Margaret Mead  Author: Schwartz, Theodore Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Matches in book (54): ...Major References on Incest Theory in Anthropology... Similar Items...Dr. Mead is adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia University,... ...and visiting professor of anthropology in the Department of Psychiatry, College... |
| 102. |  | Title: The voice in the margin: Native American literature and the canon Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies | American Literature Publisher's Description: In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international - a "cosmopolitan" - literary canon. . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...Speaking with Names." Cultural Anthropology 3 (1988): 99–130. ———. "Stalking... Similar Items...Dwyer, Kevin. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question. Baltimore: Johns... ...Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1983. ———. "... |
| 103. |  | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Matches in book (67): ...is particularly influential in anthropology. Social constructionism modified by... Similar Items...274 Interpretation: and dialogical anthropology, 24 -25; textual, 20 -21, 25 -26... ...University Press. 1984 Toward an Anthropology of Self and Feeling. In Culture... |
| 104. |  | Title: Out of our minds: reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa: the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | African History | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Centr . . . [more] Matches in book (71): ...Here too I hope to intrigue and stir up the ways many think about anthropology.... Similar Items...anachronistic expression) on which anthropology first built its reputation as an... ...were a capital without which anthropology would not have been institutionalized... |
| 105. |  | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more] Matches in book (64): ...H. , & Sargent, C. F. ( 1996 ). Anthropology and studies of human reproduction .... Similar Items...T. M. Johnson (Eds. ), Medical anthropology: Contemporary theory and method (... ...of reproduction . Annual Review of Anthropology , 20 , 311–343 . Ginsburg, F.... |
| 106. |  | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast Asia Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect . . . [more] Matches in book (67): ...Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology. ” In Richard G.... Similar Items...Fox, ed. , Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, pp. 191–210. Santa... ...Sandra Morgen, ed. , Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and... |
| 107. |  | Title: History, religion, and antisemitism Author: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism | Sociology | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...dimension of human action. In anthropology, sociology, and, to a lesser extent,... Similar Items...among others. I had dabbled in anthropology and been influenced by Bronislaw... ...the conceptualization of religion in anthropology, sociology, and psychology... |
| 108. |  | Title: Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicine Author: Roseman, Marina 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | East Asia Other | Ethnomusicology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Musicology Publisher's Description: Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community sh . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...Presence: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology . Urbana: University of Illinois... Similar Items...Asian Studies . 42(3):545-570. Fabrega, Horacio, Jr. 1972 Medical Anthropology.... ...In Biennial Review of Anthropology , 1971, ed. B. Siefel, pp. 167-229. Stanford:... |
| 109. |  | Title: For those who come after: a study of Native American autobiography Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing. Matches in book (42): ...41 , 64 Adams, John Quincy, 36 anthropology: Boasian as opposed to pre-Boasian,... Similar Items...psychology and, 108 -110; salvage anthropology, 116 , 125 ; the university and,... ...In Indigenous Psychologies: The Anthropology of the Self , ed. Paul Heelas and... |
| 110. |  | Title: The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex polities Author: Smith, Adam T Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | Political Theory | Geography Publisher's Description: How do landscapes - defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations - contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic re . . . [more] Matches in book (59): ...of the Early State . Current Anthropology 25 ( 4 ): 365–79 . Claessen, H. J.... Similar Items...The Mesopotamian Advantage . Current Anthropology 42 ( 2 ): 199–233 . Alonso, A.... ...and Identity . Annual Review of Anthropology 24 : 379–379. Altheim, F. , and R.... |
| 111. |  | Title: Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialism Author: Rofel, Lisa 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...See oppression violence: anthropology on, 156 -57, 164 -65; description of, xiv,... Similar Items...in Post-Mao China." Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.... ...of Diasporic Space." Cultural Anthropology . Brown, Wendy. 1995. States of... |
| 112. |  | Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Hawaii where he was awarded an M.A. (1968) and doctorate (1975) in anthropology.... Similar Items...After teaching anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for four... |
| 113. |  | Title: Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India Author: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Hinduism | South Asia | Asian Studies | South Asia | South Asia Publisher's Description: Even childbirth is affected by globalization - and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION AND MODERNITY... Similar Items...Milk in Bangladesh. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11 , no. 1 : 56–68 .... ...An Ethnography of Home Birth. In Anthropology of Human Birth , edited by M.... |
| 114. |  | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai Author: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...in a Massim Society." Canberra Anthropology 1:75– 87. Zajonc, R. 1980. "Feeling... Similar Items...Jahoda, G. 1982. Psychology and Anthropology . London: Academic Press. Johnson,... ...1980. Continuities in Psychological Anthropology . San Francisco: Freeman & Co.... |
| 115. |  | Title: Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities: a reader Author: Brownell, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical a . . . [more] Matches in book (70): ...WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, CHINESE STUDIES, AND ANTHROPOLOGY... Similar Items...Minority . Case Studies in Social Anthropology. New York : Harcourt Brace ,... ...with Cultural Politics. Cultural Anthropology 11 , no. 4 : 510–46 . Alley,... |
| 116. |  | Title: Revenge of the aesthetic: the place of literature in theory today Author: Clark, Michael 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especia . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...What Is Literary Anthropology? The Difference between Explanatory and... Similar Items...Morris 136 9. What Is Literary Anthropology? The Difference between Explanatory... ...of Culture: Toward a Generative Anthropology (Berkeley: University of California... |
| 117. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...The Argument: Representation in Lahore and in Anthropology... Similar Items...Global Ethnoscapes. In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , ed.... ...with Yousry Nasrallah. Visual Anthropology 10 (2–4): 381–99. Armes, Roy . 1987.... |
| 118. |  | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Matches in book (54): ...First Entrance: Anthropology... Similar Items...view of culture produced by anthropology, such as Taussig (1987), stress the... ...among the Western Apache. Cultural Anthropology 3(2):99-130. Benedict, Ruth 1932... |
| 119. |  | Title: Policies, plans, & people: foreign aid and health development Author: Justice, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. Matches in book (34): ...in the Nepalese Hills. In Social Anthropology and Medicine. Joseph B. Loudon,... Similar Items...Partridge, eds. 1978. Applied Anthropology in America. New York: Columbia... ...manuscript. 1969 b . Applied Anthropology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.... |
| 120. |  | Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...1953. "Social Structure." In Anthropology Today , edited by A. L. Kroeber, 524–... Similar Items...of Symbols." In Structural Anthropology , 181–201. New York: Basic Books. ———.... ...and Sons. Atkinson, Jane. 1982. "Anthropology: Review Essay." Signs 8(2):236–... |