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Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition (Hardcover)

This book combines research and perspectives from anthropology sociology applied linguistics developmental psychology and neurobiology to argue for a theory of language acquisition via enculturation. The first part of the book examines the practices... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition (Paperback) 0199009724 9780199009725

Drawing on the authors fieldwork experience this text explores how cultural creativity human agency and the material conditions of everyday life interact to shape cultural practices. Discussions of ongoing controversies - including tribalism vs.... more

Global Diasporas The Hindu Diaspora (Hardcover)

Hinduism outside the Indian subcontinent represents a contrasting and scattered community. From Britain to the Caribbean diasporic Hindus have substantially reformed their beliefs and practices in accordance with their historical and social... more

Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology: Ó¦mie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature (Hardcover)

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta... more

Studyguide for Anthropology of Religion Magic and Witchcraft by Stein Rebecca (Paperback)

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Includes all testable terms concepts persons places and events. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides gives all of the outlines highlights and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests more

Anthropology Creative Practice and Ethnography: Translations an Autoethnography: Migration Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter (Hardcover)

Colonial anthropology creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter s Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography. more

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices politics and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology sociology health science and cultural studies. Many of the chapters... more

Anthropology of Food & Nutrition: Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh (Hardcover)

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted... more

Theology and Religion in Interdisciplina Religion and the Individual: Belief Practice Identity (Paperback)

What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs practices and identities mean to them? The individual s place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses.... more

Contemporary Art and Anthropology (Hardcover)

Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has... more

Anthropology Creative Practice and Ethn Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film (Paperback)

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exotic culture - the popular view - nor because it has apparently not been authored - a long-standing... more

Wyse Social Anthropology: Making Better Lives: Hope Freedom and Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough in Paris (Hardcover)

In this ethnographic study Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises their short-term desires and hopes how they earn... more

Studyguide for Anthropology of Religion by Bowie Fiona (Paperback)

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Includes all testable terms concepts persons places and events. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides gives all of the outlines highlights and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests more

Language and Social Justice in Practice (Paperback)

This book uses case studies by leading and emergent scholars and practitioners written especially for undergraduate audiences and is ideal for introductory courses on social justice in linguistics and anthropology. more

School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar: Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts Shifting Constituencies Changing Agendas (Hardcover)

Building on the legacy of Writing Culture Critical Anthropology Now vividly represents the changing nature of anthropological research practice demonstrating how new and more complicated locations of research-from the boardrooms of multinational... more

Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and Internationa: Medical Pluralism in the Andes (Paperback)

Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine this readable extensively... more

Case Studies in Anthropology Fulbe Voices: Marriage Islam and Medicine In Northern Cameroon (Paperback)

Though sharing many terms of debate Fulbe persons passionately argue about Muslim ideals and pagan practices about Fulbe tradition and national reform and about local histories and global flows. In Fulbe culture social worlds are articulated and... more

McGill-Queen s Indigenous and Northern Studies: In Twilight and in Dawn : A Biography of Diamond Jenness (Series #68) (Hardcover)

An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the... more

Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta (Paperback)

Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote rural areas of Venezuela Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of... more

The Anthropology of Sport (Paperback)

Anyone who reads the newspaper watches television or listens to casual conversation on the street is aware of the ubiquitous nature of sport. It is everywhere. It flavors our national culture and permeates every corner of our daily lives. Sport in... more

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology: A Companion to Forensic Anthropology (Hardcover)

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy goals and practice of forensic anthropology currently available with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the latest... more

Anthropology and Art Practice (Paperback)

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as art-ethnography . In... more

Asa Monographs Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology (Paperback)

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice from analyses of green ideology and imagery enviromental law and policy and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their... more

An Approach To The Psychology of Religion (Paperback)

First published in 1999. This is Volume II of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1927 this book looks the connection between religious practice and belief on the one hand and instinct together with other original or innate f... more

Emotions in History Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany (Hardcover)

Enthusiasm seeks to contribute to a culturally and historically nuanced understanding of how emotions secure and ratify the truth of convictions. More than just pure affective intensity enthusiasm is about something: a certainty clarity or truth.... more

Introductory Readings in Anthropology (Hardcover)

Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity the diversity of cultures and world-views and the organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics and as a discipline it... more

Pre-Owned Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It (Paperback) 0520244044 9780520244047

Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology--questions concerning the practice of fieldwork the production of knowledge and anthropology s intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy--one of... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: The Scope of Anthropology (Hardcover)

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their... more

Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series: Economic Development : An Anthropological Approach (Paperback)

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of... more

Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice Maintenance and Reproduction of a Biome: Cognition Risk and Responsibility in Obstetrics: Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obste

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice Maintenance and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition risk and responsibility in obstetrics. This volume contains social... more

Pre-Owned Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (Paperback) 0156595508 9780156595506

The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality Muncie Indiana-in the mid-1920s using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740) these works... more

Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Eating at God s Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities (Paperback)

The practice and meaning of kosher Orthodox foodways in sustaining a vibrant and diverse community. How do contemporary American Orthodox Jews use food to create boundaries distinguishing and dividing groups from each other and from non-Orthodox... more

Australian Native Title Anthropology : Strategic practice the law and the state (Paperback)

This is a book about the practical aspects of anthropology that are relevant to the exercise of the discipline within the native title context. The engagement of anthropology with legal process determined by federal legislation raises significant... more

Russian Language and Society: Homemaking in the Russian-Speaking Diaspora: Material Culture Language and Identity (Hardcover)

Bringing together scholars specialising in Russian studies linguistic and cultural anthropology sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics this collection examines the discursive practices in which migrants homes are framed negotiated and constructed to... more

An island in the middle of the road (Paperback)

Situated in the field of the anthropology of social intervention practices this study deals with the day-to-day relationships that are forged between people who are socially responsible for acting in the interests of children (members of an... more

Food Anthropology in India (Paperback)

This book explores food in India and its evolution from pre-historic times to contemporary food trends while highlighting the intersections between culture rituals environment and the economy with food ingredients and eating practices. more

Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social an The Anthropology of Performance Book 26 (Paperback)

The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories methods and practices of performance in cultures around the... more

Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social an The Anthropology of Performance Book 25 (Hardcover)

The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories methods and practices of performance in cultures around the... more