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Studies in Anthropology and History The Hard People (Hardcover)

Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes and the way local people have responded to them. His findings relate to such themes of... more

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology: Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People Health and Wild Plant Resources (Hardcover)

The text itself is useful entertaining and informative. In addition each chapter is a model for modern ethnobotanical studies. Rather than simply cataloguing plant use each researcher analyzes the historical societal economic or political aspects... more

Pre-Owned Culture People Nature : An Introduction to General Anthropology 9780673990938 Used

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

Rivers and Mountains: A Historical Applied Anthropological and Linguistical Study of the Zaza People of Turkey Including an Introduction to Applied Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)

Little competent anthropological research has been done so far on the Zaza people one of the larger ethnic groups settling mostly in Eastern Anatolia. This study of their language and culture is an exception. The author has spent many years of research... more

Routledge Studies in Anthropology Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology (Hardcover)

This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of... more

Global Issues African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology (Hardcover)

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas particularly in... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop The Care of the Elderly in Japan (Hardcover)

The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer with many needing more care and the problems of supporting them by a diminishing working population and a diminishing tax base. This book... more

Dravidian Head Vol -IV No. 2 Madras Govt. Museum Bulletin (Anthropology) - Edgar Thurston T. Ranga Rao

About the Book:-The authors have prepared this multi-volume book in different races in this sub-continent in such a way that anybody can be remained in loop till the end. Classification of the peoples or races of this land can be attempted only when we... more

Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology (Hardcover)

In a world where international interdependence has become a major consideration where nations cannot exist in isolation anthropology is crucial to foster understanding between peoples. Since the essence of Islam is universal anthropology has a special... more

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology: Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village (Hardcover)

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu India. The author explores... more

Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians: Koasati Grammar (Hardcover)

An American Indian language belonging to the Muskogean linguistic family Koasati is spoken today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has... more

Anthropology Matters: Living with Things: Ridding Accommodation Dwelling (Hardcover)

Living with Things provides an account of consumption in terms of its centrality to our dwelling practices. Its focus is on the home particularly on the movement of people and things within and through it in everyday habitation. Here dwelling is seen... more

Routledge Revivals Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology (Hardcover)

First published in 1976 this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group with their... more

The Anthropology of Experience 9780252012495 Used / Pre-owned

Fourteen authors including many of the best-known scholars in the field explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative literary work theater carnival ritual reminiscence and... more

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion The Christianity of Culture (Hardcover)

In recent years anthropologists have increasingly viewed Christian conversion as a form of rupture from the past. But what happens if the people with whom they work begin to speak a language of continuity and sameness with that past? In this richly... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology: The Baganda (Paperback)

Missionary and amateur anthropologist John Roscoe (1861-1932) published this account of the Baganda tribe of Buganda in 1911 to preserve a record of a sophisticated people before their cultural traditions were undermined as their territory became part... more

The Anthropology of Music (Paperback)

This is a comprehensive approach to music from the point of view of anthropology. The author maintains that ethnomusicology by definition must not divorce the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking acting and creating. more

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacif: Mortality Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (Paperback)

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia Mortality Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of... more

Toward an Anthropology of Government: Democratic Transformations and Nation Building in Wales (Hardcover)

The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999 granting the people of Wales a parliament for the first time in nearly six centuries. The Assembly was intended to create a parliamentary culture of open inclusive and modern democracy that stood... more

Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia The Changing World of Bali (Paperback)

The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However a hundred years of colonialism war and Indonesian independence and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and... more

The Cinema of John Marshall (Visual Anthropology) - Ruby Jay

The Cinema of John Marshall explores the life and art of the pioneering ethnographic filmmaker. Its centerpiece is an autobiographical essay in which Marshall assesses his forty-year involvement with the San peoples (Bushmen) of South Africa and his... more

Vicos and Beyond: A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru (Hardcover)

From 1952 to 1962 anthropologists funded by Cornell University sought to apply anthropological knowledge to improving life in Vicos a village of about 1 800 people in the Peruvian Andes. This collection evaluates the methods and results of the famous... more

Pre-Owned Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (Paperback) 0840032757 9780840032751

This text is a brief more affordable version of the Peoples and Bailey HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 8th Edition (2009). Its coverage of core topics smaller size and economical price make it well suited for instructors who wish to... more

Medical Anthropology: The Best Place : Addiction Intervention and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver (Hardcover)

The Best Place examines how overlapping housing mental-health-and-addictions and overdose crises alongside their accompanying public health interventions and the frenetic pace of urban renewal have shaped forms of life and death among young people who... more

Pre-Owned Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion (Paperback 9780205795253) by John R. Bowen

9780205795253. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Edition: 5. Language: English. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices--such as... more

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

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 social... more

Humanity : An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 9780495508748 Used / Pre-owned

Using engaging stories and clear writing ADVANTAGE BOOKS: HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Eighth Edition introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered around globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey... more

Anthropology of History Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands (Paperback)

Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds. For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands the past is not history in a conventional sense. For them the world and... more

New Anthropologies of Europe Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milosevi (Hardcover)

The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milosevic played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known but Marko Zivkovic explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about... more

Navigating the African Diaspora : The Anthropology of Invisibility (Paperback)

Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility he... more

Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology Report on the Iban: Volume 41 Book 41 (Hardcover)

The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them but until the results of Dr Freeman s field research were published by the Government... more

Materializing Culture Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective (Hardcover)

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual while remaining... more

Napa Bulletin: Invisible Anthropologists: Engaged Anthropology in Immigrant Communities (Paperback)

Anthropology is generally thought of as the study of exotic peoples in far-away lands. However anthropologists have a long history of less exotic applied get-your-hands-dirty work. As a nation of immigrants the United States has enjoyed a reputation as... more

Religion and Magic in the Life of Traditional Peoples 9780130124517 Used / Pre-owned

Basic text for the anthropology of religion course taught at the sophomore/junior level. 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... more

Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society (Paperback)

Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropology The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest culture from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec has been widely-documented.... more

Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts (Hardcover)

This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family. more

Transience of Life: A Memoir: (Volume II) (Paperback)

Memoir of an Indian academic recounting his life from graduate school till his retirement in locations in the Middle East and Europe while maintaining his Indian roots. People interested in anthropology life of an Indian immigrant in Europe the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics: Durch Central-Brasilien: Expedition Zur Erforschung Des Schingú Im Jahre 1884 (Paperback)

Karl von den Steinen (1855-1929) was a German physician explorer and ethnologist who did pioneering work on the anthropology of Brazil s indigenous peoples. This book published in 1886 describes the first of his two expeditions to the previously... more