Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject mat...Loe edasi...
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores anthropological concepts and themes. In this immensely readable book, Peter A. Metcalf makes large and complex t...Loe edasi...
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores anthropological concepts and themes. In this immensely readable book, Peter A. Metcalf makes large and complex t...Loe edasi...
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have of...Loe edasi...
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological absurd, nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out....Loe edasi...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history....Loe edasi...
This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways i...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engage theologically with artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology....Loe edasi...
This book engages Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology in order to provide a Christian account of identity that affirms both humanity’s universally-shared identity in Jesus and each person’s particular identities, especially regarding sex, gen...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness....Loe edasi...
Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other internati...Loe edasi...
Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropol...Loe edasi...
Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases—conformism, religiosity, and tribalism—shaped humanity’s past and imperil its future. An “exhilarating” (Irish Times) and “ambitious” (The...Loe edasi...
This edited book offers a compelling exploration of the personal and professional lives of educators through four thematic arcs. Using autoethnography, contributors share intimate narratives that reveal how emotion, experience and context shape educ...Loe edasi...
Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book high...Loe edasi...
Lynnette Arnold, Jennifer R Guzmán, Emily Avera, Anna I. Corwin
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198933915)
Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book high...Loe edasi...
Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Cov...Loe edasi...
Sari: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246530)
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on th...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary book lays the foundations for a new critique of human societies examining how humans, as a species, are suited to live across the rural-urban spectrum. It proposes a new perspective for urban studies, ultimately centred on...Loe edasi...
A provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielders groundbreaking work changed the way we see the American novel--and American cultu...Loe edasi...
Bringing Gregory of Nyssa into dialogue with the phenomenologies of Michel Henry, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Louis Chretien, Thomas Breedlove explores the importance of embodiment to the doctrine of imago Dei. ...Loe edasi...
This book is based on the authors work concerning the academic mission of anthropology, the disciplines way of reasoning and how it reflects on the global system. The content is divided into four parts: Disciplinary Construction and Academic Se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bantam USA, ISBN-13: 9780593713853)
From intellectual historian Carl Trueman, an argument that a rejection of Christian anthropology drives the social ills of our time.As church attendance falls, suicide rates climb, and birth rates plummet, Christian pundits have sugges...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide introduces readers to the essential process of collecting, organizing, testing, and interpreting quantitative data in biological anthropology and archaeology. Written in straightforward language, it avoids complex mathematica...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide introduces readers to the process of collecting, organizing, testing, and interpreting quantitative data in biological Anthropology and Archaeology. Written in straightforward language, it avoids complex mathematical theory a...Loe edasi...
Made up of 10 of Roy Ellens finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amon...Loe edasi...
Bridging Psychology and Anthropology, this volume critiques dominant models such as psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial framework. Drawing on cross-cultural case studies from Hasidic healing to jinn possession, it argues for plural approaches tha...Loe edasi...
Viewing the significant urban insurrections of past decades with an anthropological eye, Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed, and con...Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the social-relational nature of moral formation, emotions, and moral agency. Drawing on Barths theological anthropology and his relational conception of the self, Cahill argues that Barth envisions moral progress as rooted in...Loe edasi...
Drawing upon Edward Schillebeeckxs theology and Judith Butlers philosophy, Adam Beyt uses the framework of nonviolent hope to construct a Catholic political theology responding to dehumanizing violence. Dehumanizing violence names words,...Loe edasi...
Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject mat...Loe edasi...
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores anthropological concepts and themes. In this immensely readable book, Peter A. Metcalf makes large and complex t...Loe edasi...
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores anthropological concepts and themes. In this immensely readable book, Peter A. Metcalf makes large and complex t...Loe edasi...
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have of...Loe edasi...
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological absurd, nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out....Loe edasi...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history....Loe edasi...
This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. By treating these events as social as well as individual phenomena, the essays bring to light the various ways i...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engage theologically with artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology....Loe edasi...
This book engages Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology in order to provide a Christian account of identity that affirms both humanity’s universally-shared identity in Jesus and each person’s particular identities, especially regarding sex, gen...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness....Loe edasi...
Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other internati...Loe edasi...
Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropol...Loe edasi...
Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases—conformism, religiosity, and tribalism—shaped humanity’s past and imperil its future. An “exhilarating” (Irish Times) and “ambitious” (The...Loe edasi...
This edited book offers a compelling exploration of the personal and professional lives of educators through four thematic arcs. Using autoethnography, contributors share intimate narratives that reveal how emotion, experience and context shape educ...Loe edasi...
Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book high...Loe edasi...
Lynnette Arnold, Jennifer R Guzmán, Emily Avera, Anna I. Corwin
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198933915)
Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book high...Loe edasi...
Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Cov...Loe edasi...
Sari: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246530)
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on th...Loe edasi...
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner, Duana Fullwiley...
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a disci...Loe edasi...
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner, Duana Fullwiley...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978845909)
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a disci...Loe edasi...
