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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 121 - 140 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 121. |  | Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Matches in book (59): ...Northwest Coast of America. Arctic Anthropology 6: 5-21. 1980 Russian America:... Similar Items...this long-standing debate in anthropology and the other social sciences. For a... ...Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, vol. 12. Archer, Christon I.... |
| 122. |  | Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships  Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...Speech taboos, 109 , 113 -115 Symbolic anthropology, as theoretical and topical... Similar Items...1977. Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology . Cambridge: Cambridge University... ...Books. ———. ·1976. Contributions to anthropology: Selected papers of A. Irving... |
| 123. |  | Title: Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare Author: Briggs, Charles L 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Disease | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...against Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , edited by... Similar Items...Hierarchy in Its Place. Cultural Anthropology 3 , no. 1 ( 1988 ): 36–49 .... ...Transition. Annual Review of Anthropology 27 ( 1998 ): 247–271 . Barrios,... |
| 124. |  | Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...Community . In Assessing Cultural Anthropology , ed. Robert Borofsky , 23–28 .... Similar Items...Cultural . In Assessing Cultural Anthropology , ed. Robert Borofsky , 243–49 .... ...Obeyesekere, and Sahlins . Current Anthropology 38 , no. 2 : 255–82 . Borofsky,... |
| 125. |  | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...The Anthropology of Islam... Similar Items...4. Talal Asad, “The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam,” Occasional Paper Series,... ...Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York:... |
| 126. |  | Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico Author: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...by President Mitterrand. Current Anthropology 29 ( 3 ): 391–99 . Abélès, Marc... Similar Items...Press . Abélès, Marc 1997 Political Anthropology: New Challenges, New Aims.... ...219–33 . Augé, Marc 1999 An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds. Translated... |
| 127. |  | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology Matches in book (29): ...In: John Blacking, ed. , The Anthropology of the Body (London: Academic Press):... Similar Items...what has become known as social anthropology. Since then there has been rapid... ...view that a critical task of social anthropology is to chart the limits of human... |
| 128. |  | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...the point of view of an older style of anthropology, this male perspective was... Similar Items...Against Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology , ed. Richard Fox , 137–62 . Santa... ...of Ambivalent Returns. Cultural Anthropology 14 , no. 2 ( 1998 ): 203–28 .... |
| 129. |  | Title: The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Indigenous Religions | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics | Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Literature Publisher's Description: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scie . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...1955. ) ———. 1976. Structural Anthropology , vol. 2. Trans. Monique Layton. New... Similar Items...Singapore . Monographs on Social Anthropology, n.s. , no. 14. London: Department... ...Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology . Trans. Claire Jacobson and... |
| 130. |  | Title: Natural conflict resolution Author: Aureli, Filippo 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Psychology | Cultural Anthropology | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group o . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...reconciling . Evolutionary Anthropology, 5 : 42–45 . Cords, M. , & Thurnheer, S.... Similar Items...American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 48 : 503–510 . Montagu, M. F. A.... ...American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 3. : 599–604 . Small, M. F. 1990 .... |
| 131. |  | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 132. |  | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel . Current Anthropology 33 : 497–550 . Bärbel, M. , R.... Similar Items...in northeast Asia . Current Anthropology 42 : 735–746 . Bräuer, G. , and F. H.... ...transition at Kara-Bom . Current Anthropology 34 : 452–458 . Goebel, T. , M. R.... |
| 133. |  | Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature Author: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Comparative Literature | Poetry | Anthropology | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Johannes . Tim, and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object . New York :... Similar Items...George, and Michael Fischer . Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental... ...some theoretical articulations in the anthropology of the past decade or so that... |
| 134. |  | Title: Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world Author: Helmreich, Stefan 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | Biology | Technology and Society | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West Publisher's Description: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...seen the growth of "cyborg anthropology," a practice that seeks to examine "... Similar Items...and Williams 1995:342). Cyborg anthropology acts amid the contradictions of... ...and Sarah Williams. 1995. "Cyborg Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology 10 (2):... |
| 135. |  | Title: Aryans and British India Author: Trautmann, Thomas R Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian History | European History Publisher's Description: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languag . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...British Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century... Similar Items...it under the name of Biblical anthropology (Stocking 1987). volumes with no... ...its flowering elsewhere. Cultural anthropology 3:50-67. 1989 Tribes, government,... |
| 136. |  | Title: Evolution of sickness and healing Author: Fabrega, Horacio Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medicine | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...medicines, 141 See also Chimpanzees Anthropology, 286 medical, 3 -4, 20 -21, 34... Similar Items...and chemical findings. Current Anthropology 12: 72-73. Chase, P. G. , and H. L.... ...in ancient populations. Current Anthropology 12: 45-62. Cohen, H. 1961. The... |
| 137. |  | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | Philosophy Publisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...Therapeutic Process." In Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method ,... Similar Items...Practice." In Clinically Applied Anthropology: Anthropologists in Health Science... ...Repr. 1976 in Contributions to Anthropology , by A. Irving Hallowell, 357–390.... |
| 138. |  | Title: Chechnya: life in a war-torn society Author: Tishkov, Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European History | Sociology | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important political posts, examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, un . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...A NEW CHECHEN ANTHROPOLOGY... Similar Items...of Extremes / 196 A New Chechen Anthropology / 197 OfWcial and Eternal... ...2001 . Antropologia nasiliya [The Anthropology of Violence]. Saint Petersburg :... |
| 139. |  | Title: Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity | History Publisher's Description: One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These . . . [more] Matches in book (43): ...and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology , pp. 106-36. London: Athlone Press.... Similar Items...O. L. 1973. Encountering Aborigines: Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal.... ...professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, studies... |
| 140. |  | Title: Spirit wars: Native North American religions in the age of nation building Author: Niezen, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Religion | American Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...Ph.D. diss. , Department of Anthropology, Harvard University . Yemma, John... Similar Items...Objects, Indians, and Institutions: Alice Fletcher's Anthropology, 1880–1892. ”... ...Senior thesis, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University . Augustine 1972 [... |