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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 201 - 220 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 201. |  | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies  Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...the line between sociology and anthropology (united at the graduate level until... Similar Items...Culler, Jonathan, 188 Cultural anthropology, 10 Cultural History of Modernity (... ...See also Social movements Social anthropology, 198 Social Basis of American... |
| 202. |  | Title: Caste and capitalism in colonial India: the Nattukottai Chettiars Author: Rudner, David West Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...1983 Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York: Columbia... Similar Items...Leach, ed. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology, No. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge... ...and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behavior,... |
| 203. |  | Title: Echoes from Dharamsala: music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community Author: Diehl, Keila Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Tibet | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in p . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Cultural Politics . Cultural Anthropology 11 ( 4 ): 510–46 . Adams, Vincanne... Similar Items...and Humanism . Tibet Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11 ( 2 ): 1–28 . Adams,... ...among the Western Apache . Cultural Anthropology 3 ( 2 ): 99–130 . Bell, Charles... |
| 204. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...1952. Hodgen, Margaret T. Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth... Similar Items...Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth... ...Press), 309. 70. Hodgen, Early Anthropology , 238, 302-3, 339; Bohatec, Calvin,... |
| 205. |  | Title: Althusser and the renewal of Marxist social theory Author: Resch, Robert Paul Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...Maurice. 1985. Marxism and Anthropology . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———,... Similar Items...1975. Marxist Analysis and Social Anthropology . New York: Wiley. Block, Fred L.... ...1977. Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology . Cambridge: Cambridge University... |
| 206. |  | Title: Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris Author: Walz, Robin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | French Studies | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provoc . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...pathology charted by criminal anthropology of the era. On the contrary, Fantômas... Similar Items...culture, ranging from criminal anthropology and police laboratory science to... ...signs, established through criminal anthropology, police laboratory science, and... |
| 207. |  | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...96. Appadurai, Arjun. "Theory and Anthropology: Center and Periphery." CSSH 28 (... Similar Items...Understanding." In Meaning in Anthropology . Edited by Keith H. Basso and Henry... ...and Marketing . Monographs in Economic Anthropology, no. 4, Society for Economic... |
| 208. |  | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Shweder, "The Astonishment of Anthropology," p. 16. Ibid. , 17. Ibid. , 18.... Similar Items...Griffin , 1997 . Cohen, Ronald . "Ethnicity: Problem and Focus in Anthropology."... ...Annual Review of Anthropology 7 ( 1978 ): 379–403 . Collins, Patricia Hill .... |
| 209. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...at Bellagio, associated with the anthropology and ethnomedicine departments at... Similar Items...Model of Physiology. American Anthropology 87 : 87–595 . Bataille, George .... ...Hmong in Kansas City. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 8 ( 2 ): 161–177 . Capron,... |
| 210. |  | Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar Author: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Geography | African History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Ph.D. diss. , Department of Anthropology, Princeton University . Hutchins,... Similar Items...An thropology In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , ed. Richard... ...Michael Cole . 1999 . Re-fusing Anthropology and Psychology . In Bartlett, Cogni... |
| 211. |  | Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...psychiatry and facilitated by anthropology—deserves far more reflection than is... Similar Items...Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge University... ...of the State," Annual Review of Anthropology 23 (1994): 122. Michael T. Taussig,... |
| 212. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...in the United States. Cultural Anthropology 37 ( 5 ): 737–762 . Orellana, M.... Similar Items...the politics of difference. Cultural Anthropology 7 : 6–23 . Hardt, M. , and A.... ...J. , and R. Rosaldo ( 2001 ). Anthropology of globalization: A reader . New... |
| 213. |  | Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...illness . Special issue of History and Anthropology 2, 1:1–13. Augé, M. , and C.... Similar Items...persuasion and healing. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (n.s. ) 2, 2:121–142.... ...Review of Lemba 1650–1930. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17, 4:106. Frankel, S.... |
| 214. |  | Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...Subarctic Data. Canadian Journal of Anthropology 1 ( 1): 129-139. Worl, Robert,... Similar Items...Change among the Eskimos. Current Anthropology 6: 3-73. 1984 Asiatic Eskimo:... ...Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University. 1971 Indians... |
| 215. |  | Title: Tracing the veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata Author: Finn, Janet L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | California and the West | Economics and Business | Environmental Studies | Latino Studies Publisher's Description: This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...1991) argues the case for linking anthropology and history, especially in the... Similar Items...Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley:... ...Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books. Giddens,... |
| 216. |  | Title: Marxist modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution Author: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | History | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that similar debates have long occurred, particularly among peoples located on the margins of world power and wealth. Based on extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia - conducted over a twenty . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Narratives and Historical Anthropology." Comparative Studies in Society and... Similar Items...Odhiambo, Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape (London:... ...Narratives and Historical Anthropology," Comparative Studies in Society and... |
| 217. |  | Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Asad, Talal . 1986 . The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam . Washington, D.C. :... Similar Items...Basham, Richard . 1978 . Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex... ...Travel, and the Disciplining of Anthropology . In Anthropological Locations:... |
| 218. |  | Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Matches in book (19): ...Thomas K. , ed. 1987. Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. Assen, Netherlands:... Similar Items...Culture Contact. In: Nutrition and Anthropology in Ac- tion, ed. Fitzgerald Pp.... ...of the Late 19th Century. Cultural Anthropology 3(1):21–35. Fernandez, Renate... |
| 219. |  | Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Asian Studies Matches in book (23): ...and exchange, combining the insights of ecological and economic anthropology.... Similar Items...New Guinea." Research in Economic Anthropology 7: 95-122. Beehler, Bruce M. ,... ...in Anganen exchange." Canberra Anthropology 12: 144-160. O'Hanlon, Michael... |
| 220. |  | Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...Anthropological Category)." Critique of Anthropology 11 (1978): 57-65. Bailey,... Similar Items...Growth and Household Economy . Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, no. 2.... ...of Stockholm, Department of Social Anthropology, 1976. Dallas, Carolyn G. "The... |