The Superorganic
Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317198123
Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology. This book charts the fortunes of the idea from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times. By comparing biological, historical, and anthropological approaches to the study of human culture and social life, it lays the foundation for their effective synthesis. Far ahead of its time when first published, the book anticipates debates at the forefront of contemporary thinking. Revisiting the work after almost thirty years, Tim Ingold offers a substantial new preface that describes how the book came to be written, how it was received and its bearing on later developments. Unique in scope and breadth of theoretical vision, Evolution and Social Life cuts across the boundaries of natural science and the humanities to provide a major contribution both to the history of anthropological and social thought, and to contemporary debate on the relationship between human nature, culture, and social life.
Author : David Bidney
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412839778
Theoretical Anthropology is a major contribution to the historical and critical study of the assumptions underlying the development of modern cultural anthropology. In the new introduction, Martin Bidney discusses the present state of anthropology and contrasts it with the scene surveyed in Theoretical Anthropology. He discusses the relevance of David Bidney's work to our present concerns. Also included in this work is the second edition's introductory essay by David Bidney, written fifteen years after the first edition of Theoretical Anthropology. Here the author examines his original aims in writing this book. Theoretical Anthropology has helped to create among anthropologists the present climate of theoretical self-awareness and broad humanistic concerns. It has become a standard reference work for anthropologists as well as sociologists.
Author : Jacob Gould Schurman
Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
An international journal of general philosophy.
Author : Marco Amati
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811639779
This book traces how naturalism—the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems—has contributed to major shifts in urban planning. Beginning in the 17th century, when the human body began to emerge as an inspiration for urban planning, the book examines the work of medical analyses of city life. Responding to the 19th century industrial revolution and 20th century modernism, the Second World War and mass motorisation, Dr Marco Amati shows how vitalism, eugenics, evolutionary theories and medical treatments were applied to understand cities and propose new urban forms. While critically evaluating the uses of naturalism, Amati also observes a renewed interest in the application of sciences to analyse city life, arguing that this is essential to help resolve challenges of human-induced climate change.
Author : J.K. Feibleman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401016364
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Education
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Author : David Steigerwald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742511972
Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. In this groundbreaking work, David Steigerwald argues that Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of diversity and multiculturalism, which hides the extent to which they have accepted homogenized ways of working and living.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Anthropology
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Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807135631
Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889--1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer's essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to explore Sauer's work. In Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape, editors William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson have compiled thirty-seven of Sauer's original works, including rare early writings, articles in now largely inaccessible publications, and transcriptions of key oral presentations that remain little known. A student of the relationships between land and life, people and places, Sauer helped establish landscape studies in cultural geography and paved the way for paradigmatic shifts in the scholarly assessment of Native American history. By strongly advocating a land ethic, "a responsible stewardship of the sustaining earth," for his own and for future generations, Carl Sauer supplied an esthetic rationale and a historical perspective to the environmental movement. The volume opens with two extended essays on Sauer's critics and his works. Essays by prominent geographers and other authorities on Sauer introduce each section of the book, adding a contemporary element to the presentation and interpretation of Sauer's life and scholarship in areas such as soil conservation, man in nature, and cultivated plants. A complete bibliography of his publications and an extensive compilation of commentaries on his life and work make this an indispensable reference. Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape sheds new light on Sauer's contributions to the history of geographic thought, sustainable land use, and the importance of biological and cultural diversity -- all of which remain key issues today.