Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousand ...
Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.
The objective of the volume is to bring together, in one collection, the most innovative dental anthropological research as it pertains to the study o ...
This workbook contains a series of professional exercises for students who want to use their training in anthropology to develop a career in anthropol ...
It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemo ...
What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs?The impact of social change on communities? The processes by which communities ...
This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologis ...
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future provides a new analysis of changes in the lifeworlds of the Aluni Valley Duna people living in a remote pa ...
This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeolog ...
Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. T ...
The Kindle edition of this encyclopedia does not have live links between the table of contents and the entries in the main text. Consequently it is im ...
Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first centur ...
Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power and at crucial stages in the development of his philosophical syst ...
This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues ...
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, ...
