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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 21 - 40 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 21. |  | Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its cen . . . [more] Matches in book (74): ...Perspectives on the History of Anthropology , edited by Sydel Silverman . New... Similar Items...three, all graduate students in anthropology at Berkeley in the mid-1960s, was... ...against culture . In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , edited... |
| 22. |  | Title: Being human: ethics, environment, and our place in the world Author: Peterson, Anna Lisa 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Folklore and Mythology | Environmental Studies | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peter . . . [more] Matches in book (70): ...Toward a Chastened Constructionist Anthropology... Similar Items...questions headon. In ethics, as in anthropology, we need to continue pressing... ...Toward a Chastened Constructionist Anthropology 185 9 Different Natures 213 ... |
| 23. |  | Title: The New cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack ... [et al.] Author: Biersack, Aletta Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Law Publisher's Description: Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a dee . . . [more] Matches in book (92): ...p. 11. See also idem, "Folklore, Anthropology, and Social History," Indian... Similar Items...LaCapra on, 112 -13 Swammerdam, Jan, 186 n Symbolic anthropology, 52 -54, 64 -65... ...Symbols, 13 -14, 74 ; anthropology and, 52 -53, 64 -65, 77 -78; intellectual... |
| 24. |  | Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Matches in book (58): ...Lévi-Strauss, C. 1963 . Structural anthropology. Vol. 1 . Trans. C. Jacobson and... Similar Items...in the past two decades in anthropology, see, e.g. , Boon (1982) ; Fabian (... ...and praxis in contemporary anthropology. London : Routledge James, W. [1890]... |
| 25. |  | Title: Culture and the senses: bodily ways of knowing in an African community Author: Geurts, Kathryn Linn 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance . . . [more] Matches in book (81): ...against Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology . R. G. Fox , ed. Pp. 137–162 .... Similar Items...1991 Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology.... ...In Recapturing Anthropology . R.G. Fox , ed. Pp. 191–210 . Santa Fe, NM : School... |
| 26. |  | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...in Medicine and the Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal.... Similar Items...is a Director of Studies in South Asian Anthropology and the History of Science,... ...who helped to create medical anthropology through her foresight in establishing... |
| 27. |  | Title: The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality  Author: Weiner, James F Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...NJ: Prentice-Hall. Godelier, M. 1977. Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology . (... Similar Items...Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology No. 18. ) Cambridge: Cambridge... ...Account." Southwest Journal of Anthropology , 28(3):230-254. Vicedom, G. F.... |
| 28. |  | Title: Zapata lives!: histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico Author: Stephen, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen doc . . . [more] Matches in book (66): ...WITNESSING AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS... Similar Items...The “Fields” of Anthropology, Human Rights, and Contemporary Zapatismo... ...of Martin Diskin, a pioneer in the anthropology of human rights and in activist... |
| 29. |  | Title: International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledge Author: Cooper, Frederick 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Social Science | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and . . . [more] Matches in book (209): ...Development Anthropology"... Similar Items...Five— Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a... ...The Concept of "Development" and the Theoretical Foundations of Anthropology... |
| 30. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Matches in book (67): ...appeared as an article in Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9 (3): 314–34. I am... Similar Items...to confront the practice of jhandu anthropology. The years of this research and... ...important works in psychological anthropology and sociology, such as Stanley... |
| 31. |  | Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Postcolonial Studies | European History | African History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...Italian Anthropology and the Africans... Similar Items...ACADEMIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF AFRICANS... ...as Colonial Practice . History and Anthropology 8 : 1–34 . Perini, R. 1905 . Di... |
| 32. |  | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress Author: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art Theory Publisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more] Matches in book (62): ...Los Angeles: Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California,... Similar Items...Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology), Leiden. Fig. 82: Drawing by Magü.... ...Benedict, Burton. 1983. The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's... |
| 33. |  | Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...Literacy and the Work of Anthropology... Similar Items...Stephen A. 1969 Cognitive Anthropology . New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston.... ...Michael 1991 "Tactility and Distraction." Cultural Anthropology 6:147–153.... |
| 34. |  | Title: The possessed and the dispossessed: spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Indigenous Religions Publisher's Description: This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...will draw from theory in medical anthropology, migration studies, and the study... Similar Items...Political Economy of Health. Medical Anthropology Newsletter . (14) 1: 1–2, 13–... ...Medical Anthropologists. Medical Anthropology Quarterly . (17) 5: 129–131. Baer,... |
| 35. |  | Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Economics and Business | Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Matches in book (45): ...of Simmel and Mauss. Cultural Anthropology 4: 227–59. Belshaw, Cyril S. 1965.... Similar Items...change. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 21: 302–24. ———. 1972. Population... ...Economic theory and economic anthropology. American Anthropologist 64: 1179–... |
| 36. |  | Title: Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving Author: Weiner, Annette B 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine gro . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...Jane M. 1982. “Review Essay: Anthropology. ” Signs 8(2):236–258. Baldwin, John... Similar Items...of Simmel and Mauss. ” Cultural Anthropology 4:227–259. Bell, Diane. 1983.... ...The Melanesians: Studies in Their Anthropology and Folklore. Oxford: Clarendon... |
| 37. |  | Title: Western music and its others: difference, representation, and appropriation in music Author: Born, Georgina Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how mus . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...beyond which the Enlightenment's anthropology could not push, at the same time... Similar Items...complexity of Mozart's work represent one of that anthropology's high points.... ...strange. Like aesthetic mimesis, anthropology or ethnomusicology's own involves... |
| 38. |  | Title: Early Greek law Author: Gagarin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Politics | Law Publisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. Matches in book (10): ...Law . Oxford. Humphreys, S. C. 1978. Anthropology and the Greeks . London. ———.... Similar Items...1985a. "Law as Discourse." History and Anthropology 1: 241-64. ———, 1955b. "... ...in Classical Athens." History and Anthropology 1: 313-69. Huxley, George. 1962.... |
| 39. |  | Title: Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town Author: Launay, Robert 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Robert Launay has been observing the changing religious practices of the Dyula, a Muslim community in West Africa, for more than a decade. In Beyond the Stream , he examines the ways in which this religious and ethnic minority group living on the fringes of the Muslim world maintains its ties to the . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...The "Anthropology of Islam" in a Muslim Community... Similar Items...1977. "Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for an Anthropology of Islam."... ...Annual Review of Anthropology 6: 227–54.... |
| 40. |  | Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Anthropology | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more] Matches in book (121): ...2. Modernism, Irony, Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas... Similar Items...Thomas R. , ed. Psychological Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press,... ...give here, appeared in Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text , ed. Marc... |