At Home
Author : Arlene Raven
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Feminism and the arts
ISBN :
Anthropology at Home
Author : Anthony Jackson (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780422605601
Book Description
Living House
Author : Roxana Waterson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 146290601X
Book Description
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples. The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, it reveals a much wider field of inquiry--covering all of the Austronesian peoples and cultures extending as far afield as Madagascar, Japan and the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. As it probes the centrally significant role of houses within South-East Asian social systems, The Living House reveals new insights into the kinship systems, gender symbolism and cosmological principles of the peoples who build them, ultimately uncovering fundamental themes concerning the concepts of life force and life processes inherent in all of these cultures. A vivid picture is produced of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people--how rules about layout and spatial usage impact social relationships. The book concludes with a consideration of present-day changes affecting the fates of indigenous cultures and architectures throughout the region. This book will be of tremendous interest to architects and historians, and anyone interested in the indigenous art and cultures of South-East Asia.
Media Anthropology for the Digital Age
Author : Anna Cristina Pertierra
Publisher : Polity
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509508464
Book Description
The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the global study of media and communication. She recounts the rise of anthropological studies of media, the discovery of digital cultures, and the embrace of ethnographic methods by media scholars around the world. Bringing together longstanding debates in sociocultural anthropology with recent innovations in digital cultural research, this book explains how anthropology fits into the story and study of media in the contemporary world. It charts the mutual disinterest and subsequent love affair that has taken place between the fields of anthropology and media studies in order to understand how and why such a transformation has taken place. Moreover, the book shows how the theories and methods of anthropology offer valuable ways to study media from a ground-level perspective and to understand the human experience of media in the digital age. Media Anthropology for the Digital Age will be of interest to students and scholars of media and communication, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as anyone wanting to understand the use of anthropology across wider cultural debates.
Applications of Anthropology
Author : Sarah Pink
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845450274
Book Description
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector this volume examines existing and historical debates about applied anthropology. It explores the relationship between the "pure and the impure" – academic and applied anthropology, the question of anthropological identities in new working environments, new methodologies appropriate to these contexts, the skills needed by anthropologists working in applied contexts where multidisciplinary work is often undertaken, issues of ethics and responsibility, and how anthropology is perceived from the ‘outside’. The volume signifies an encouraging future both for the application of anthropology outside academic departments and for the new generation of anthropologists who might be involved in these developments.
Comparison in Anthropology
Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108474608
Book Description
Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.
At Home on the Waves
Author : Tanya J. King
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789201438
Book Description
Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
An Ecological Christian Anthropology
Author : Ernst M. Conradie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1351958992
Book Description
What is the place and vocation of human beings in the earth community? This is the central question that this contribution towards a Christian ecological anthropology addresses. In ecological theology this question is often answered by the affirmation that 'We are at home on earth'. This affirmation rightly responds to the widespread sense of alienation from nature, to the anthropocentrism that pervades much of the Christian tradition and to concerns about the scope of environmental devastation. This book challenges the affirmation that we are at home on earth, examining natural suffering, anxieties concerning human finitude and especially the pervasiveness of evil. The book investigates contributions to ecological theology, South African and African theology, reformed theology and contemporary dialogues between theology and the sciences in search of a thoroughly ecological Christian anthropology.
Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
Author : Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Feminist anthropology
ISBN : 9781452902876
Book Description
The House of Commons
Author : Emma Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000183297
Book Description
The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world’s most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary democracy.Examining the work of Members of Parliament – including neglected areas such as constituencies and committees – this book provides unique insights into the actual lives and working relationships of parliamentarians. 'Why do the public loathe politicians but often love their own MP?' the author asks. The antagonistic façade of politics irritates the public who tend to be unaware that, backstage, democracy relies on MPs consulting, compromising and cooperating across political parties far more than is publicly admitted. As the book shows, this is only one of myriad contradictions in the labyrinths of power. Based on unprecedented access and two years of interviews and research in the Palace of Westminster and MPs’ constituencies, The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work challenges the existing scholarship on political institutions and party politics. Moving beyond the narrow confines of rational choice theory and new institutionalism, Emma Crewe presents a radical alternative to the study of British politics by demonstrating that all of its processes hinge on culture, ritual and social relations. A must-read for anyone interested in political anthropology, politics, or the Westminster model.
