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Morality Crisis and Capitalism: Anthropology for Troubled Times (Hardcover)

May you live in interesting times was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that interesting times are times of upheaval conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the... more

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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

Prehistoric Men : Chicago Natural History Museum Popular Series Anthropology No. 37 (Hardcover)

Prehistoric Men is a book written by Robert John Braidwood as part of the Chicago Natural History Museum s Popular Series on Anthropology (No. 37). The book explores the lives and cultures of prehistoric humans including their tools art and social... more

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss Liminality and Hopeful Encounters (Paperback)

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves it outlines a particular displacement approach to the museum anthropology and material culture.... more

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss Liminality and Hopeful Encounters (Hardcover)

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves it outlines a particular displacement approach to the museum anthropology and material culture.... more

Why Gender? (Hardcover)

Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to address this question from their respective fields: Political Theory Philosophy Medical Anthropology Law... more

Materializing Culture: Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Paperback)

On buses trains and streets over the past decade and more youths in particular but increasingly older people as well tune into their personal stereos and tune out city sounds. Why? What does the personal stereo mean to these people and to urban... more

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

A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology The city is becoming the basic currency of human - and non-human - life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes.... more

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology: The Heart of the Pearl Shell : The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

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... more

History Now! (Paperback)

History is cool and it s happening now. Or so we ve heard. Welcome to it. Take a trip through the summaries of Todd Paropacic s favorite anthropology books magazines and life events from the last year and a half to learn about where we are heading.... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Inside the Revolution (Hardcover)

The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years Inside the Revolution offers a rare close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen... more

Cultural Anthropology : Global Forces Local Lives 9780415508773 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Cornell University East Asia Papers : Family Change and the Life Course in Japan (Paperback)

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives (Paperback) 0415485398 9780415485395

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives presents all the key areas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction it helps... more

Cultural Anthropology : Global Forces Local Lives 9781138914438 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives (Hardcover) 041548538X 9780415485388

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives presents all the key areas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction it helps... more

Between One and One Another (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples lives and that of turning inward to one s self. Grounding his... more

Between One and One Another (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples lives and that of turning inward to one s self. Grounding his... more

Anthropological Locations : Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Among the social sciences anthropology relies most fundamentally on fieldwork -the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are studying topics that resist geographical localization this... more

Classics of Anthropology: Ancient Society (Paperback)

Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them he reasons back... more

The Comfort of People (Paperback)

At the end of life our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book Daniel Miller one of the world s leading anthropologists examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of... more

New Directions in Anthropology: Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories (Hardcover)

At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic... more

Amazon Town: A Study of Human Life in the Tropics (Anniversary) (Paperback)

Charles Wagley (1913-1991) was an American anthropologist specializing in rural Latin America. His principal focus was on Brazil where he is considered to be one of the founders of contemporary Brazilian anthropology. He made major contributions to... more

Wyse Social Anthropology: Where Is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life Between Social Theory and Philosophy (Hardcover)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology sociology religious studies and philosophy along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and... more

California Series in Public Anthropology: When I Wear My Alligator Boots : Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands (Series #33) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the war on drugs despite... more

On Our Own Terms: Race Class and Gender in the Lives of African-American Women (Paperback - Used) 0415912865 9780415912860

This volume utilizes the cross-cultural historical and ethnographic perspective of anthropology to illuminate the intrinsic connections of race class and gender. The author begins by discussing the manner in which her experience as a participant... more

Culture Builders : A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life (Paperback)

Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and proper life are anchored in the trivialities and routines of everyday life: in the sharing of a meal in holiday-making and in the upbringing of children. . 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

Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology: Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories: Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers (Hardcover)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life especially in regard to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping neglect of their... more

The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa : Anthropology Literature and History (Hardcover)

In The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa E. Paul Durrenberger recounts the transformation of Iowa s family farms into today s agricultural industry through the lens of the lives and writings of Iowa novelist Paul Corey and poet Ruth Lechlitner.... more

Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology: A Social History of Sheffield Boxing Volume II (Hardcover)

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences such as contestations... more

Life Sciences Volume Vol. 1st [Hardcover]

About The Book: Deals With The Treatment Of Life Science Which Has Several Branches Of Science Such As Biology Medicine Anthropology Or Ecology That Deal With Living Organism And Their Organizations. The Title Life Sciences written/authored/edited... more

Heart of Lightness: The Life Story of an Anthropologist (Hardcover)

Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they and Edie alone after Vic s death raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of... more

Harper Torchbooks; Tb5037 Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty (Paperback)

One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men women and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live. more

My American Dream : One Woman s Journey Living with a Chronic Disease (Paperback)

Born in a farming village in rural Spain a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents continents away she is raised by her grandparents as if one of their own. After years of being... more

Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture Power and Pra: War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Paperback)

Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010 a team of activists social scientists and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq Afghanistan and Pakistan... 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