Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2036 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135236402
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317397118
RLE Social and Cultural Anthropology brings together a collection of key titles from a range of historic imprints. From Anthropology and Nursing to Everyday Life, from The Gift Economy to Two-Dimensional Man, they form an essential reference source from a selection of acclaimed international authors.
Author : David Cheal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317401328
Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim and Weber, and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and, while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy, the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family, gender and religion.
Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415181563
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Conceptsis the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: cybernetics, ecriture, the feminine, gossip, human Rights, moralities, stereotypes, thick description, and violence. Each entry is accompanied by extensive cross-referencing and an invaluable list of suggestions for further reading.
Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000538982
This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.
Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1134976542
* Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections between these three fields. * Useful cross-references within the text, with full biographical references and suggestions for further reading. * Carefully illustrated with line drawings and photographs. 'The Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a welcome addition to the reference literature. Bringing together authoritative, incisive and scrupulously edited contributions from some three dozen authors. The book achieves an impressive breadth of coverage of specialist areas.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement 'Recommended for all anthropology collections, especially those in academic libraries.' - Library Journal 'This is a marvellous book and I am very happy to recommend it.' - Reference Reviews
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File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : John M. Weeks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429712987
This book is an introduction to library research in anthropology written primarily for the undergraduate student about to begin a research project. It contains a summary description of the type of resource being discussed and its potential use in a research project.
Author : Ágnes Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317403339
This book, first published in 1984, examines the politics and philosophy of ordinary men and women, and their ordinary transactions. It analyses the interaction between the individual and the social, both for the roots of everyday behaviour and for the means to change the social fabric. Using an approach that combines Marx, Husserl, Heidegger and Aristotle, Agnes Heller defines categories such as ‘group’, ‘crowd’, ‘community’, and deals with characteristics of everyday life such as repetition, rules, norms, economics, habits, probability, imitation. She also analyses everyday knowledge, and concludes by looking at the place of personality in everyday life.
Author : F. Allan Hanson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415330312
Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals. It also investigates the problem of relativism and explores the question of whether anthropology and the other social sciences are really scientific. First published in 1975.
