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Methodology & History in Anthropology: Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis (Hardcover)

The concept of cultural transmission is central to much contemporary anthropological theory since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis (Paperback)

The concept of cultural transmission is central to much contemporary anthropological theory since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local... more

Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology: Rationality and Relativism: In Search of a Philosophy and History of Anthropology (Paperback)

Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific. In this book first published in 1984 Professor Jarvie applies Popper s philosophy of science to... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) (Hardcover)

This books examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of race structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire. In a context of competing... 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

Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Mozambique (Paperback)

In this manual we can find a short history of anthropology in general. Next we present and discuss anthropological theories and currents: evolutionist diffusionist functionalist structuralist with their respective critical reflections. We also deal... more

Explorations in Cultural History (Hardcover)

New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. History is an invention in the present as much as a representation and interpretation of the past. This has opened up... more

A History of Anthropology (Hardcover)

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of Enlightenment Romantic and Victorian anthropology from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected... more

History of Anthropology: Observers Observed : Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (Series #1) (Paperback)

History of Anthropology is a new series of annual volumes each of which will treat an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. For this initial volume the editors have chosen to focus on the modern cultural anthropology: intensive... more

Space Place and Society: At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space (Paperback)

In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines--art history sociology architecture cultural anthropology and environmental psychology--Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic... more

The Social Life of Things (Paperback)

The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history cultural anthropology and economics the volume marks a major step in... more

Stanford Studies in Human Rights: The Subject of Human Rights (Hardcover)

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the human part of human rights. Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory cultural studies history law anthropology and literary studies this volume examines how human... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-cultural Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology) (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Paperback

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Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology (Case studies in cultural anthropology) Paperback

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Cultural Anthropology : Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (Volume 31 Number 3 August 2016) (Paperback)

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; Consent s Revenge AUDRA SIMPSON; Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass ELISA J. SOBO; Refusal as Act... more

Oxford Critical Cultural History of Mode The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (Paperback)

The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain North America and Europe this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of little magazines and independent periodicals in Europe in the... more

The Cultural History of Television: Fierce Females on Television : A Cultural History (Hardcover)

Fierce Females on Television provides a fascinating deep-dive into how shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer Charmed Homeland Orphan Black and The Equalizer have changed the way women are portrayed on television and paved the way for the strong female... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Homo Imperii : A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (Hardcover)

It is widely assumed that the nonclassical nature of the Russian empire and its equally nonclassical modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity (Paperback) 0078116988 9780078116988

A leading name in anthropology Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the cultural anthropology course. Cultural Anthropology offers an up-to-date holistic introduction to general anthropology from the four-field perspective. Key... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology : Appreciating Cultural Diversity (Paperback) 9780078035005

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The Etymological History Of The Three Hebrew Synonyms For To Dance Hgg Hll And Krr And Their Cultural Significance HGG HLL and KRR and Their Cultural Significance Volume 36 191

{Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 36 Pages 16 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1916]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt... more

Jagiellonian Studies in Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology and Ethnology During World War II: The Activity of Sektion Rassen- Und Volkstumsforschung Institut Für Deutsche Ostarbeit in the Light of Ne

The volume presents a collection of texts describing contemporary research findings into the documentation of the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)--a Nazi-led institution that was established in... more

Pre-Owned: Small Places Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology Culture and Society) (Paperback 9780745335933 0745335934)

Small Places Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology Culture and Society) ISBN-10 0745335934 ISBN-13 9780745335933 Eriksen Thomas Hylland 4th edition 364 pages Publisher: Pluto Press Binding: Paperback This... more

Pre-Owned Small Places Large Issues - Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology Culture and Society) Paperback

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Pre-Owned The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Paperback

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Anthropology Culture and Society: Small Places Large Issues : An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Edition 5) (Paperback)

Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology more

Accessing Anthropology: A Workbook/Reader Introducing the Field of Cultural Anthropology

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Pre-Owned Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film (Paperback) by Karl G Heider

9780205305582. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 492. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 492 p. An introduction to cultural anthropology which uses ethnographic film this concise text focuses on 14... more

New Directions in Social and Cultural History: When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration (Hardcover)

The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe China and Africa it offered the possibility of mobility to the new world of the West; for countries like... more

Studies in Sensory History: The Deepest Sense : A Cultural History of Touch (Paperback)

From the softest caress to the harshest blow touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now for the first time this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch... more

History of Anthropology: Bones Bodies amd Behavior : Essays in Behavioral Anthropology (Series #5) (Paperback)

History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes inaugurated in 1983 each broadly unified around a theme of major importance to both the history and the present practice of anthropological inquiry. Bones Bodies Behavior the fifth in the series... more

Social anthropology ; a psycho-analytic study in anthropology and a history of Australian totemism by Géza Róheim Ph. D. With an introduction by M. D. Eder. 1926 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned Bones Bodies Behaviour: Essays in Biological Anthropology (History of Anthropology): 5 Paperback - USED

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Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology Ritual History and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology Book 39 (Hardcover)

This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch s most important work including influential essays on power hierarchy death and fertility. more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Race Experts : Sculpture Anthropology and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman s Races of Mankind (Hardcover)

2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (Hardcover)

This is an elegantly written and well-organised book on a subject whose star continues to rise. Those who are familiar with Rapport s project will be anticipating its publication with some excitement. Those who are not familiar with his work are in for... more

Social anthropology; a psycho-analytic study in anthropology and a history of Australian totemism 1926 [Leather Bound]

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Social anthropology ; a psycho-analytic study in anthropology and a history of Australian totemism by Géza Róheim Ph. D. With an introduction by M. D. Eder. 1926 [Leather Bound]

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