This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues ...
This work provides a systematic examination of anthropological research on the critical issue of ethnicity. Chapters cover all aspects of ethnicity, i ...
Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and m ...
Feminist Anthropology: A Reader surveys the history of feminist anthropology, a field that was inspired by the women’s movement of the late 1960s and ...
Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the f ...
Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-st ...
Folklore emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline's inc ...
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, ...
Forensic Anthropology Training Manual serves as a practical reference tool and a framework for training in forensic anthropology.The first chapter inf ...
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologi ...
Patrick Frierson draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical ex ...
Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is a ...
Is gender determined by biology, society or experience? How have notions of gender and sexuality differed in past societies? Addressing such questions ...
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Ge ...
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeo ...
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the ...
GREAT JOBS SERIES ANSWERS THE QUESTION ''WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN . . Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect fo ...
This handbook of anthropology methods defines and describes anthropological fieldwork in practice. The authors examine historical methods, surveys, li ...
