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Methodology & History in Anthropology: Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology (Paperback)

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Anthropology Goes to the Fair : The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Paperback)

World s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations each exposition showcased commercial and cultural... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games : Sport Race and American Imperialism (Hardcover)

One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World s Fair in St. Louis which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Returning Life: Language Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro (Hardcover)

A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk beer and blood on the ground requesting rain for their continued existence. Returning Life explores how this event engages activities where life... more

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Aboriginal Family and the State: The Conditions of History (Hardcover)

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal traditional owners . Drawing on... more

Sino-Iranica; Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products Volume Fieldiana Anthropology v. 15 no.3

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Catalog to manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives Department of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. v.3. Volume v.

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Lectures on the origin and growth of the conception of God as illustrated by anthropology and history. (1897) [Leatherbound]

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Pre-Owned Toward a Science of Man : Essays in the History Anthropology 9789027976093

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Contributions to American anthropology and history. Volume v.12 no.57-60 1999 [Leather Bound]

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Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific (Hardcover)

Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are... more

Studies in Anthropology and History Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific (Paperback)

It is striking that in many Pacific nations national narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings such as those concerning local political dynasties and conversion to Christianity. While leaders in Pacific states have... more

Pre-Owned Peasant Intellectuals : Anthropology and History in Tanzania 9780299125240

Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive but quite capable of acting in their own interests. But do coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society or do peasants act in a world where elites define political... more

Made to Be Seen : Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (Hardcover)

Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions the contributors to Made... more

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or as it is now known biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Lev Shternberg : Anthropologist Russian Socialist Jewish Activist (Hardcover)

This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed... more

Pre-Owned The Ethnographer s Magic : And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology 9780299134105

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Antiquities from Boscoreale in Field Museum of Natural History Volume Fieldiana Anthropology v. 7 no.4 1912 [Leather Bound]

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Jewish Culture and Contexts: Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority Diaspora Tradition (Hardcover)

Over the past several decades the field of Jewish studies has expanded to encompass an unprecedented range of research topics historical periods geographic regions and analytical approaches. Yet there have been few systematic efforts to trace these... more

The River Congo from its mouth to Bolobo; with a general description of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin. By H.H. Johnston ... With three etchings and over seventy other

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Photography Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (Hardcover)

Photography Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized and focusing on the... more

Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesth Hegel s Art History and the Critique of Modernity (Paperback)

In this study Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel s theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: With its origins in the Ancient Near East Western art culminated in... more

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Islamic Spectrum in Java (Hardcover)

This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation localization and globalization from various perspectives through... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification (Hardcover)

What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring the human to the fore to... more

Pre-Owned History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology 9780801421136

Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the legal as a separate field of study? To answer this question they... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Excavating Nauvoo : The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America (Paperback)

This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo Illinois reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the 1960s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the... more

Fetichism : a contribution to anthropology and the history of religion / by Fritz Schultze ... Translated from the German by J. Fitzgerald. (1885) [Leatherbound]

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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

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

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Caste Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance (Hardcover)

This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa... more

Made to Be Seen : Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (Paperback)

Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions the contributors to Made... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and History in Yucatan 9780292703148

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Remapping Cultural History: Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings (Hardcover)

Collapsing concrete colossuses run-down overgrown skeletons immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment which we are dying to dispose of - and yet cannot do without - have inspired many ghost stories crime novels and urban... more

Pre-Owned Other Tribes Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures Histories Religions and Texts (Paperback) 0521271975 9780521271974

In this book James A. Boon investigates the history dialectics and practice of the symbolic analysis of cultural diversity. His aim is to formulate a general comparative approach to the study of symbolic processes integrating the major different... more

Studies in Anthropology and History The Rationality of Rural Life (Hardcover)

This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in... more

Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology Anthropology and History (Hardcover)

Focusing on a neglected area of Kant s thought that is now receiving much more attention from Kant scholars the author presents a unique exploration of one of the world s most widely read philosophers. more

Pre-Owned The Category of the Person : Anthropology Philosophy History 9780521259095

A lecture given by Marcel Mauss in 1938 brings about this compilation of comments on his speculation that notions of the person rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological have a complex social and ideological origin. Societies ranging... more

A finding-list of history politics biography geography travel and anthropology in the Young men s library at Buffalo. Volume v.1 1885 [LEATHER BOUND]

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