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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 141 - 160 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 141. |  | Title: A finger in the wound: body politics in quincentennial Guatemala Author: Nelson, Diane M 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound." Diane Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study of the civil war and its aftermath. Why use a body metaphor? What body is wounded, and how does it react to apparent f . . . [more] Matches in book (54): ...Paper presented at the American Anthropology Association meetings, San... Similar Items...Paper presented at the American Anthropology Association meeting, Chicago,... ...Jerusalem's Old City." Critique of Anthropology 9, no. 2. Boyer, Robert. 1990.... |
| 142. |  | Title: Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinations Author: Gold, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that su . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...Lévi-Strauss, Claude . Structural Anthropology . New York : Basic Books , 1963 .... Similar Items...are "Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors," Critical Inquiry... ...can be found in his Structural Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1963). It is... |
| 143. |  | Title: The festive state: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance Author: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a col . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...to Spectacle in Indonesia . Canberra Anthropology 8 ( 1 ): 148–172 . Acosta... Similar Items...1991 . Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology .... ...In Recapturing Anthropology . Richard G. Fox , ed. Santa Fe, N. Mex. : :School... |
| 144. |  | Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa  Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies | African History | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Matches in book (43): ...W. Arens, The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthrophagy (New York: Oxford... Similar Items...Odhiambo]. Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape. London:... ...the Copperbelt. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 15 (1959): 235–53. Epstein,... |
| 145. |  | Title: Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in Kenya Author: Thomas, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | African Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance - and complex ramifications - of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female i . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...Rowlands, notes for a volume on “anthropology, native law and custom in Kenya,”... Similar Items...Odyssey . ” Annual Review of Anthropology 19 ( 1990 ): 1–15 . Berry, Sara . No... ...Common Ground . History and Anthropology 4, no. 2 ( 1990 ): 339–55 . Fadiman,... |
| 146. |  | Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | Women's Studies | Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...world. See Terrell and Modell, "Anthropology and Adoption." For an in-depth look... Similar Items...against Culture . In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , ed.... ...and Culture: Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies .... |
| 147. |  | Title: A'aisa's gifts: a study of magic and the self Author: Stephen, Michele Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Indigenous Religions | Psychology Publisher's Description: Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-co . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...Company. Hogbin, I. (ed. ) 1973. Anthropology in Papua New Guinea . Carlton:... Similar Items...K. (ed. ) 1972. Psychological Anthropology . Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman. Hunt,... ...Columbia University Press. 1987. "Anthropology as Interpretive Quest." Current... |
| 148. |  | Title: American medicine: the quest for competence Author: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...Falk Moore's discussion of processual anthropology and the analysis of events as... Similar Items...Obstetrics. Guest editorial. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1 (3): 227–229.... ...1903–1985. Special issue, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1 (3): 256–282. Hahn,... |
| 149. |  | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Sociology Publisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...Economy of Utilization . Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6 , no. 1 ( 1992 ): 6–... Similar Items...Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era , ed. M. di... ...Frontier . SUNY Series in the Anthropology of Work. Albany : State University of... |
| 150. |  | Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...South-Central Africa . Annual Review of Anthropology 13. White, C. M. N. 1948.... Similar Items...newly created chair in social anthropology at Manchester University in Britain.... ...Press. Asad, Talal ———, ed. 1973b. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter .... |
| 151. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Paul's Political Anthropology... Similar Items...assumption that Paul held a dualist anthropology that does not abhor the body.... ...Rainbow Snake. In Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation, Thomas Buckley... |
| 152. |  | Title: Birth as an American rite of passage Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensely technolog . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...E. , and C. Coon 1942. Principles of Anthropology . New York: Holt, Rinehart and... Similar Items...of Symbols." In Structural Anthropology . New York: Basic Books. 1969. The Raw... ...Harper and Row. 1976. Structural Anthropology II . New York: Basic Books. Lewis,... |
| 153. |  | Title: Susto, a folk illness Author: Rubel, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have re . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Relations. In M. Nash, ed. Social Anthropology. Vol. 6. Handbook of Middle... Similar Items...Nervios in Rural Costa Rica. Medical Anthropology 4, 4: 523–559. Billig, O. , J.... ...Pp. 747–754. Eggan, F. 1954 Social Anthropology and the Method of Cross-Cultural... |
| 154. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule Author: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more] Matches in book (39): ...individuals Creativity, styles of, in anthropology, 34 -35 Cultivation, 53 . See... Similar Items...and Extraordinary Experience. In The Anthropology of Experience . Ed. Victor W.... ...in Arabic]. ASAD , TALAL 1973. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter . London:... |
| 155. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Social Organization," Arctic Anthropology 17, no. 2 (1980): 34-45; Jesuit... Similar Items...Perspectives." In Toward an Anthropology of Women , edited by Rayna R. Reiter,... ...Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology. New York: Free Press, 1968.... |
| 156. |  | Title: Race hygiene and national efficiency: the eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer Author: Weiss, Sheila Faith Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Matches in book (32): ...The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in... Similar Items...The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in... ...such figures. For a discussion of Ammon's racial anthropology see chap. 4.... |
| 157. |  | Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 77. Hester, T. R. , M. P.... Similar Items...World." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 8:297–319. Riley, C. L. , and B. C.... ...1930 Excavations at Zacatenco . Anthropology Papers of the American Museum of... |
| 158. |  | Title: Getting married in Korea: of gender, morality, and modernity Author: Kendall, Laurel Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | East Asia Other | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity Matches in book (32): ...Against Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , ed. R. G.... Similar Items...In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology , ed. Roger Sanjek, 47–7o. Ithaca,... ...1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object . New York: Columbia... |
| 159. |  | Title: A magic still dwells: comparative religion in the postmodern age Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine) 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of re . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...1. 49. J. Neusner, The Talmud as Anthropology (New York, 1979), p. 28, n. 33.... Similar Items...and Marvin Harris, Frontiers of Anthropology, vol. 7 (Newbury Park, CA: Sage... ...of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (Philadelphia: University of... |
| 160. |  | Title: The human difference: animals, computers, and the necessity of social science Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Religion | Christianity Matches in book (20): ...Philosophical Anthropology Revisited... Similar Items...Cultural Selectiveness." Current Anthropology 27 (August–October 1986): 315–32.... ...Cultural Selectiveness," Current Anthropology 27 (August-October 1986): 315-32.... |