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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 161 - 180 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 161. |  | Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics  Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | History | Ethics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more] Matches in book (31): ...and Herbert Spencer." Current Anthropology 15, no. 3 (1974): 211-221. Galton,... Similar Items...In Robin Fox, ed. , Biosocial Anthropology. London: Malaby Press, 1975. Pp. 133-... ...and the Development of American Anthropology, 1846-1910. Washington, D.C. :... |
| 162. |  | Title: Making modern mothers: ethics and family planning in urban Greece Author: Paxson, Heather 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper indi . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...the bifocal lens of cultural studies of modernity and feminist anthropology.... Similar Items...and Sylvia Yanagisako 1989 Theory in anthropology since feminist practice .... ...Critique of Anthropology 9 , no. 2 : 27–39 . Comninos, Anthony C. 1988 Greece .... |
| 163. |  | Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...Ezra Zubrow, ed. , Demographic Anthropology, pp. 63–143. Albuquerque: University... Similar Items...Hemispheric Estimate,” Current Anthropology 7:395–449. Dobzhansky, Theodosius... ...for Social Evolution,” Current Anthropology 19:247–255. LeBar, Frank M. , ed.... |
| 164. |  | Title: The sacrificed generation: youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...Plon . Asad, Talal , ed. 1973 . Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter .... Similar Items...Work in Urban Areas of Senegal. Anthropology of Work Review 7 , 1–2 : 19–25 .... ...Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology. LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology... |
| 165. |  | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...form, which has some precedent in anthropology, then turn to the crime story,... Similar Items...1996 . The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart . Boston :... ...Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology, ed. Hans A. Baer , pp. 315–... |
| 166. |  | Title: History and human existence: from Marx to Merleau-Ponty Author: Miller, Jim 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Philosophy | Religion | Intellectual History Matches in book (37): ...he had discarded the philosophical anthropology behind its initial formulations.... Similar Items...a priori principles of philosophical anthropology? The consistency of Sartre's... ...a priori bent of his philosophical anthropology, his account of the genesis and... |
| 167. |  | Title: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound Author: Harmon, Alexandra 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Native American Studies | United States History | Ethnic Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous peoples and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. Indians in the Making offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fis . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...the Northwest Coast." Annual Review of Anthropology 10 (1981), 361–392. Allen,... Similar Items...among the Coast Salish." In The Anthropology of Power, edited by Raymond D.... ...Ties." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 27 (1971), 353–380. ———. "Skokomish... |
| 168. |  | Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...Fox, Richard G. 1991 Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. Santa Fe,... Similar Items...Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 41. New York: Humanities Press.... ...Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, pp. 167-234. New York: Basic Books.... |
| 169. |  | Title: Not by bread alone: social support in the new Russia Author: Caldwell, Melissa L 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex - if no less necessary and nourishing - than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the pos . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader ed. Setha M. Low , 201–... Similar Items...Shortages and Famine . Current Anthropology 21 ( 1 ): 21–44 . Dolot, Miron .... ...The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption . New York : Basic... |
| 170. |  | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope Author: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...of California Press . D'Andrade, Roy . 1995 . “Moral Models in Anthropology. ”... Similar Items...Current Anthropology 36 ( 3 ): 399–408 . Davis, Shelton H. 1988 . “Introduction:... ...Boston : Cultural Survival and Anthropology Resource Center . Falla, Ricardo .... |
| 171. |  | Title: The origins of indigenism: human rights and the politics of identity Author: Niezen, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | International Relations | Social Problems Publisher's Description: "International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and accessible narrative, Ronald Niezen examines the ways the relatively recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - "indigenous peo . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...Chambers, Erve. 1985 . Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide. Prospect... Similar Items...vention, 1989 (No. 169). Law and Anthropology 5 : 221–35 . Tail, Eli J. 2000 .... ...of my doctoral work in social anthropology at Cambridge University in the mid-... |
| 172. |  | Title: Looking for God in Brazil: the progressive Catholic Church in urban Brazil's religious arena Author: Burdick, John 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely ha . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...1991); David Sutton, "Is Anybody Out There? Anthropology and the Question... Similar Items...of Audience," Critique of Anthropology 11/1 (1991): 91-104.... ...Against Culture." In Recapturing Anthropology , edited by Richard Fox. Santa Fe:... |
| 173. |  | Title: The play of time: Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange Author: Hoskins, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on K . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...in Oceania: Toward an Historical Anthropology . Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian... Similar Items...Countrymen: Essays on the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean , ed. J.... ...Oceania: Toward an Historical Anthropology , ed. A. Biersack. Washington, D.C. :... |
| 174. |  | Title: Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown Author: Goldstein, Donna M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and bla . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...Policies of Repression in Brazil . Dialectical Anthropology 20 (1) : 95–108 .... Similar Items...Gendering of Diasporic Space . Cultural Anthropology 13 (3) : 291–325 . Brusco,... ...Firth, Raymond . 1975 . Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society . In... |
| 175. |  | Title: Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videos Author: Barbash, Ilisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Ethnic Studies | Photography Publisher's Description: This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail - information never before ass . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...across the Water: Essays on Visual Anthropology and Sociology , ed. Robert M.... Similar Items...from the Dawn of Time," in Visual Anthropology Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 1991), p.... ...from the Dawn of Time," in Visual Anthropology Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 1991), p.... |
| 176. |  | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American Literature Publisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...housed at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Before... Similar Items...Sorcery. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6 : 188–196 . Walters, Diane .... ...Journalof California and Great Basin Anthropology 2 : 188–197 . Arvidson, Lucy .... |
| 177. |  | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic culture Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...Israel According to the Flesh" On Anthropology and Sexuality in Late-Antique... Similar Items...kernel of difference in the anthropologies. The difference is not so much,... ...62.v Stiegman, Emero 1977. "Rabbinic Anthropology." In vol. 19 of Aufstieg und... |
| 178. |  | Title: The way the world is: cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili Author: Swartz, Marc J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies Publisher's Description: Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture.In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...ed. ), Directions in Cognitive Anthropology. Urbana: University of Illinois... Similar Items...proverbs. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology. University of Washington. Parsons,... ...tradition in Islam. M.A. thesis, Anthropology Department, University of Chicago.... |
| 179. |  | Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through Polynesia Author: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | United States History | East Asia Other | Asian History Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...Migrationism. In Annual Review of Anthropology (Bernard J. Siegel, ed. ) 7:483–... Similar Items...No. 3. Honolulu, Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Barthel,... ...Dunedin, New Zealand, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. Baybayan,... |
| 180. |  | Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American Studies Matches in book (28): ...Inka state." Research in Economic Anthropology . Supplement I. Greenwich: JAI... Similar Items...American Indians 6: 87–101. Social Anthropology . Austin: University of Texas... ...in the Inca state." Critique of Anthropology . 6, no. 1. Pearse, Frank. 1976.... |