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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 181 - 200 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 181. |  | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...1967. Lemonnier, Pierre. 1992. Elements for an anthropology of technology .... Similar Items...Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, no. 88,... ...and Hill Gates, eds. 1981. The anthropology of Taiwanese society . Stanford,... |
| 182. |  | Title: Notes on love in a Tamil family Author: Trawick, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Matches in book (29): ...and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology." In The Spoken Word and the Work... Similar Items...and Dowry." Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology, no. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge... ...India." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology . 13 (3): 267-287. ———. 1963. "... |
| 183. |  | Title: The romance of American psychology: political culture in the age of experts  Author: Herman, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | American Studies | Politics | Psychology | United States History Publisher's Description: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...for World War II," History of Anthropology 4 (1986): 196-197. 25. For examples,... Similar Items...61. Edward Sapir, "Why Cultural Anthropology Needs the Psychiatrist," Psychiatry... ...Opler, "Psychiatry and Applied Anthropology in Psychological Warfare Against... |
| 184. |  | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...Tribes’ of California,” Current Anthropology 40, no. 2 (April 1999): 193–201.... Similar Items...California, Center for Visual Anthropology , 1994 . Videocassette . Snipp, C.... ...Law,” in North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture, ed.... |
| 185. |  | Title: Theory of culture Author: Münch, Richard 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...German context as philosophical anthropology —we can see why culture seeps into... Similar Items...Lévi-Strauss, C. 1963. Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books. Levine,... ...An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. London: George G. Harrap. Malinowski,... |
| 186. |  | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian community Author: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: "This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...et al. (eds. ), Annual Review of Anthropology 17: 365-426. Palo Alto, Calif. :... Similar Items...the Western Apache. Cultural Anthropology 3(2): 99-130. Bellah, Robert N. , R.... ...1978 Ethnicity: Problem and focus in anthropology. In B. Siegel et al. (eds. ),... |
| 187. |  | Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | African American Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...Spread of AIDS in Mexico." Medical Anthropology 10:129–142. Cass, Vivienne C.... Similar Items...1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object . New York: Columbia... ...Pan Books. Feldman, Douglas A. 1986. "Anthropology, AIDS, and Africa." Medical... |
| 188. |  | Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Darwinian Theory in Anthropology, Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy... Similar Items...The evolutionary aspect of physical anthropology was clearly one of the less... ...87 Crookes, William, 2 , 375 Cultural anthropology, 361 Cunow, H. , 362 Cuvier,... |
| 189. |  | Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | China | Ethnic Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...in Its Place. In Reading Cultural Anthropology , ed. George Marcus , 34–47 .... Similar Items...the Gender Dichotomy in Feminist Anthropology: The Case of the Lahu of Southwest... ...Culture of Educational Achievement. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 18 :... |
| 190. |  | Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | Psychology | African History | Medicine | Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...for example, Arthur Kleinman, ''Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Role of Culture... Similar Items...York: Luce, 1980. Benedict, Ruth. "Anthropology and the Abnormal." Journal of... ...this point is Ruth Benedict's paper "Anthropology and the Abnormal," Journal of... |
| 191. |  | Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesis Author: Levy, Jerrold E 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | California and the West | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | American Literature Publisher's Description: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the hist . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Yale University Publications in Anthropology 4. Bellah, Robert N. 1952. Apache... Similar Items...The North American Berdache." Current Anthropology 24:443-470. Clark, Donald W.... ...1940. An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. New York: Rinehart. ———. 1956 [... |
| 192. |  | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith Author: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...God as the Ground of Empathy. Anthropology Today 16 : 1 ( February 2000 ): 19–... Similar Items...God as the Ground of Empathy,” Anthropology Today 16:1 (February 2000): 19–20.... ...Baker, Lee D. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race ,... |
| 193. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Hierarchy in Its Place. Cultural Anthropology 3(1): 36-49. ———. 1991. Afterword.... Similar Items...· Ph.D. diss. , Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. ———. 1986.... ...Lessons from the Murik. Cultural Anthropology 1(1): 6-73. Mehta, Rama. 1981.... |
| 194. |  | Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | African History | Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...and Anthony Shelton, eds. 1992. Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics. Oxford:... Similar Items...11. Turner, Victor. 1986. The Anthropology of Performance. New York: Performing... ...the Paradoxes of Acting. Cultural Anthropology 8:73-95. Deward, Georges. 1962.... |
| 195. |  | Title: The Prophet's pulpit: Islamic preaching in contemporary Egypt Author: Gaffney, Patrick D 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for pr . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...E. R. Leach, Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology no. 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge... Similar Items...Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Social Anthropology and Other Essays . New York: Free... ...in Expressive Culture." Current Anthropology 15 (June 1974): 119-45. Fernea,... |
| 196. |  | Title: Growing old in silence Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Sociology | Sociology Matches in book (16): ...1963. Gossip and Scandal. Current Anthropology 4:307–316. Goffman, Erving. 1961.... Similar Items...Community. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 27:75–96. Angrosino, Michael V.... ...1976. Anthropology and the Aged: A Preliminary Community Study. Gerontologist... |
| 197. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...Hans Walter Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament , tr. Margaret Kohl (... Similar Items...Buchanan (Boston, 1969), p. 149. 12. For biblical anthropology in general, see... ...natural understanding of God, Stoic anthropology virtually required a religious... |
| 198. |  | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists Author: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | Aging Publisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...1991 . Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology.... Similar Items...In Recapturing Anthropology, ed. Richard Fox, 191–210. Santa Fe, N. Mex. :... ...1996 . The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Boston :... |
| 199. |  | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritage Author: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | Travel Publisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Realism in East Africa," Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 435-470. 7. See "... Similar Items...the International Congress of Anthropology at the World's Columbian Exposition... ...Putnam's Problems Popularizing Anthropology," continue American Scientist... |
| 200. |  | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Author: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...and Ethnicity ." Annual Reviewof Anthropology 23 : 379–405 . Althusser, Louis .... Similar Items...Curl, Hair and Big Feet: Physical Anthropology and of Land Allotment on the... ...Cherokee Notions of Power ." In The Anthropology of Power . Raymond D. Fogelson... |