This book develops a theory and framework to describe how archaeology can contribute to a more humane world. Recognizing that archaeology is an inhere ...
In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, a ...
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological ...
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this c ...
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)Course No. 1573Taught by Barbara J. KingThe College of William and MaryPh.D., University of OklahomaCourse Lecture Ti ...
This is perhaps one of the most comprehensive treatments of this now broad subject area that I have ever read. The authors are to be applauded for gat ...
17 b/w photographs, 1 map In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among ...
This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understan ...
The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legit ...
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part ...
Political parties in Europe face a crisis of legitimacy, which manifests itself through a decline in partisan identification, an increase in electoral ...
This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective-that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a l ...
This intimate study portrays the hunter-gatherer Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. Kevin Duffy describes how these forest nomads, who are as adapted to the fore ...
This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since ...
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses ...
This book is the archaeologists' response to Merlin Donald's 1991 book, "Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cogn ...
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with soc ...
"[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a ...
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple--to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade ...
Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Steph ...
Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected are ...
