anthropologies of american medicine culture

Pre-Owned The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method Paperback

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The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method (Paperback - Used) 0897895169 9780897895163

This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging creativity and ideology. Originally cited in IAmerican Anthropologist R as must reading for all... more

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture : An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology Medicine and Psychiatry (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

From the Preface by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine psychiatry and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered... more

Pre-owned Prescribing Faith : Medicine Media and Religion in American Culture Paperback by Badaracco Claire Hoertz ISBN 1932792899 ISBN-13 9781932792898

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Pre-Owned Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (Hardcover 9780393052015) by Carl Elliott Peter D Kramer

9780393052015. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 320. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. In the tradition of The Culture of Narcissism and Listening to Prozac a resonant exploration of the paradoxes of... 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

Snakes in American Culture: A Hisstory (Paperback)

The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences. Little has been published about them in the fields of popular culture or the history of medicine. Focusing primarily on American culture and history from the... more

Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries (Hardcover)

In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed... more

History of American Science and Technology: Technical Knowledge in American Culture : Science Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s (Edition 1) (Paperback)

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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine (Paperback)

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation... more

Pre-Owned Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line: Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian (Paperback 9781894974868) by Rodger D. Touchie

9781894974868. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Pages: 192. 192 p. B/w photos. For almost three decades Edward Curtis photographed the First Peoples of the North American West and studied their cultures. As part of his fieldwork he cruised the... more

California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public: Death Is That Man Taking Names : Intersections of American Medicine Law and Culture (Series #7) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their right to die -initially by refusing medical treatment and... more

Pre-owned Technical Knowledge in American Culture : Science Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s Paperback by Cravens Hamilton (EDT); Marcus Alan I. (EDT); Katzman David M. (EDT) ISBN

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Pre-Owned Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science Technology and Medicine Since the Early (Paperback 9780817307936) by Mr. Hamilton Cravens David M Katzman Alan I Marcus

9780817307936. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 280. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 280 p. History of American Science and Technology. This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say... more

Pre-Owned The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) Paperback

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Women in Culture and Society: Exotics at Home : Anthropologies Others and American Modernity (Hardcover)

In this pathbreaking study Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. From the 1893 World s Fair to Body Shop advertisements di Leonardo focuses on the intimate and shifting relations between popular... more

Pre-Owned The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City: 4 (Social Transformations American Anthropology) Paperback

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Pre-Owned North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture (Paperback 9780806128085) by Raymond J DeMallie Alfonso Ortiz

9780806128085. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 430. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 430 p. These essays explore the blending of structural and historical approaches to American Indian anthropology... more

Pre-Owned North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture (Paperback) 0806128089 9780806128085

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 acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings... more

Indians and Anthropologists : Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology (Paperback)

In 1969 Vine Deloria Jr. in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later anthropologists have become more sensitive... more

Medicine as Culture: Illness Disease and the Body (Paperback)

Medicine as Culture has become the classic text for the sociology of health and illness combining perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology anthropology social history and cultural studies. The books teases out how... more

American Studies - A Monograph: Communicating Disease : Cultural Representations of American Medicine (Series #236) (Hardcover)

Communicating Disease focuses on the intersections of literature and medicine. It unravels the intricate entanglement of culture and disease and is devoted to the representation of life through medical narratives exploring its value to both the... more

Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora Mexico: The History Culture and Anthropology of the Yaqui Native Americans (Paperback)

In the 1930s a party led by Professor W. C. Holden led these investigations into the Yaqui Native American tribes of Sonora Mexico revealing much about their culture and characteristics. Noting a relative absence of Yaqui studies in Native American... more

Foundations of Anthropology: Science of Culture PB: A Study of Man and Civilization (Paperback)

Leslie White was one of the most important and controversial figures in American anthropology. This classic work initially published in 1949 contains White s definitive statement on what he termed culturology. In his new prologue to this reprint of the... more

Gramsci Culture and Anthropology (Edition 1) (Paperback)

In the last twenty years Antonio Gramsci has become a major presence in British and American anthropology especially for anthropologists working on issues of culture and power. This book explores Gramsci s understanding of culture and the links between... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Caribbean New York: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Paperback)

Since 1965 West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that... more

Pre-Owned American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine Word Magic (Paperback 9780822959250) by Ernest Stromberg

9780822959250. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 296. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Composition Literacy and Culture. American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance presents an original critical and... more

American Culture Studies: Biohacking Bodies and Do-It-Yourself: The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life Itself (Paperback)

From self-help books and nootropics to self-tracking and home health tests to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology medicine and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This... more

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (Paperback)

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

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

Pre-Owned Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Paperback 9780801480997) by Professor Ellen Lewin

9780801480997. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Within a society that long considered lesbian motherhood a contradiction in terms... more

Anthropology of the Sacred: Native American Religions of Central and South America (Hardcover)

The New World came into being in the Europeans encounter with the indigenous religions and cultures of Central and South America. Yet these religions remain little known or are filtered through inadequate categories such as animism superstition or... more

Pre-Owned Exotics at Home: Anthropologies Others and American Modernity (Paperback 9780226472645) by Micaela Di Leonardo

9780226472645. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 464. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Unspecified. Women in Culture and Society. Attempting to define the exotic this text focuses on the shifting... more

Interplay Arts + History + Theory: Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (Paperback)

Tribal art has been one of the greatest inspirations for twentieth-century Western artists. Picasso Matisse Ernst and Brancusi responded in unforgettable ways to masks sculpture and other forms of indigenous African Oceanic and American art. The... more

Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Paperback)

New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations there was hardly any mention of the fact that for the majority... more

Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (Hardcover)

Josephine McDonagh examines the concept of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by analyzing texts drawn from economics philosophy law and medicine as well as literature. McDonagh highlights the ways in which child... more

Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Hardcover)

New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations there was hardly any mention of the fact that for the majority... more

Race Language and Culture (Paperback)

This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book Race Language and... more