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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 41 - 60 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 41. |  | Title: Fieldwork under fire: contemporary studies of violence and survival Author: Nordstrom, Carolyn 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions th . . . [more] Matches in book (97): Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Ancient Titicaca: the evolution of complex society in southern Peru and northern Bolivia Author: Stanish, Charles 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Archaeology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition fro . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...from Migrationism . Annual Review of Anthropology 7 : 483–532 . Agurto Calvo,... Similar Items...Ph.D. diss. , Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University .... ...Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of California , Los... |
| 43. |  | Title: Signs of recognition: powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society Author: Keane, Webb 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indone . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Spectacle in Indonesia. Canberra Anthropology 8: 148-172. Adams, Marie Jeanne.... Similar Items...of Cultural Translation in British Anthropology. In Writing Culture , ed. James... ...and Social Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 59-88. Beatty, Andrew. 1992.... |
| 44. |  | Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana  Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Geography | French Studies | European Studies | Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Matches in book (123): ...Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology... Similar Items...ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF MODERNITY... ...ROBINSON CRUSOE, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE HORIZON OF TECHNOLOGY... |
| 45. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Matches in book (105): ...Anthropology in Reverse... Similar Items...The Case of Feminism and Anthropology," in Signs 12, 2 (1987): 284; emphasis... ...The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective,"... |
| 46. |  | Title: Nationalism and the genealogical imagination: oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan Author: Shryock, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate h . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...California Press. 1989. Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World.... Similar Items...Annual Review of Anthropology 18:267–306. 1993. Writing Women's Worlds.... ...Faubion, James 1993. History in Anthropology. Annual Reviews in Anthropology,... |
| 47. |  | Title: New world encounters Author: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American History Publisher's Description: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter b . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...and contemporary cultural anthropology, three of which were translated into... Similar Items...Writing vs. Time: History and Anthropology in the Works of Lafitau," Yale French... ...Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology , trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke... |
| 48. |  | Title: Religious nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India Author: Veer, Peter van der Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Hinduism | South Asia Publisher's Description: Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines - anthropology, history, social theo . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...187. 16. Veena Das, "For a Folk-Theology and Theological Anthropology of Islam."... Similar Items...Jonathan Spencer, "'Writing Within': Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in... ...237-59. ___. ___.The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam. Annual Distinguished... |
| 49. |  | Title: Covering immigration: popular images and the politics of the nation Author: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a grow . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...Jr. 1995 . Mexican-U.S. border: The making of an anthropology of borderlands .... Similar Items...Annual Review of Anthropology 24 : 447–70 . Alvarez, Sonia E. , Evelina Dagnino,... ...Hinsley 1986 . From site to sight: Anthropology, photography, and the power of... |
| 50. |  | Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Anthropologies Homeric, Virgilian, and Ovidian... Similar Items...Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books. Mukhlis,... ...and Displaced Persons in Croatia." The Anthropology of East Europe Review 13 (... |
| 51. |  | Title: Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Author: Hays, Terence E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Matches in book (125): ...Highlands Anthropology After The War(S)... Similar Items...One A Historical Background to Anthropology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands... ...One A Historical Background to Anthropology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands... |
| 52. |  | Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...Caste Ideology. In Symbolic Anthropology , edited by J. Dolgin, D. Keminitzer,... Similar Items...Blacking, J. (editor) 1977 The Anthropology of the Body . New York: Academic... ...and Transcultural Significance. Medical Anthropology , Summer: 51–67. Embree,... |
| 53. |  | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...Cambridge Series in Social Anthropology, 16 . Cambridge : Cambridge University... Similar Items...Rural China. pp. 372–95 in Toward an Anthropology of Women, edited by Rayna R.... ...Women in Taiwan. Studies in Cultural Anthropology, no. 5. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI... |
| 54. |  | Title: Roman honor: the fire in the bones Author: Barton, Carlin A 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her pr . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...the actor's world. ” “Towards an Anthropology of Self and Feeling,” Culture... Similar Items...the Spread of the Blush,” in The Anthropology of the Body , ed. John Blacking,... ...77, 81; Blacking, “Towards an Anthropology of the Body,” p. 15. “The accumulated... |
| 55. |  | Title: On the postcolony Author: Mbembé, J.-A 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Political Theory | African History | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as som . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Nigeria: An Essay in Formal Sector Anthropology." Unpublished manuscript, 1991 .... Similar Items...1909 . Marcus, G. , and M. J. Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An... ...1986 . [Trans. A. Dasnois, The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and... |
| 56. |  | Title: Missing persons: a critique of the social sciences Author: Douglas, Mary Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social th . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive... Similar Items...1981. Indigenous Psychologies: The Anthropology of the Self . Academic Press,... ...by Rodney Needham. Classics in Anthropology. University of Chicago Press,... |
| 57. |  | Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...Godelier, Perspectives in Marxist anthropology . Cambridge: Cambridge University... Similar Items...R. Hiatt and C. Jayawardena (eds. ), Anthropology in Oceania . Sydney: Angus and... ...and D. White (eds. ), The anthropology of urban environments . Washington:... |
| 58. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...PART IV— ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY... Similar Items...13— Native Land Use: Archaeology and Anthropology... ...California. Journal of California Anthropology 3(1):81–95. Bettinger, Robert L.... |
| 59. |  | Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal Author: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...N.Y. : The Society for Applied Anthropology. Bista, Dor Bahadur. 1971. “The... Similar Items...ed. 1967. Themes in Economic Anthropology. ASA Monograph 6. London: Tavistock... ...1989. Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. 2d edition. Philadelphia:... |
| 60. |  | Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identity Author: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Social and Political Thought | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...of Things. American Review of Anthropology 24 : 495–523 . Niederland, William C.... Similar Items...Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity . London : Routledge .... ...A. Irving . 1955 . Contributions to Anthropology: Selected Papers of A. Irving... |