F - Anthropology 1

In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid institutional, technological, and intellectual……続きを見る

Attention à la marche!, issu du congrès de l’Electronic Literature Organization tenu à Montréal en 2018, entend questionner de façon explicite la place de la littérature électronique dans la culture……続きを見る

What if understanding the past could help shape a more just and inclusive future? Telling the Fuller Truth: Race and Reconciliation Initiative at TCU, 2020-2025 invites readers into an honest and co……続きを見る

Applying the legend of the "stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to resonate as history--crea……続きを見る

This book examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports industry who cross borders as part of their professional live……続きを見る

How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundar……続きを見る

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a ……続きを見る

Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In th……続きを見る

Les affaires du corps s’opposent aux affaires de l’esprit, le côté aliments au côté croyance. Ce sont là des manières différentes d’exprimer un clivage fondamental de l’existence et de l’univers tel……続きを見る

Through a meticulous exploration of oral traditions and community-based media practices, Unwana Samuel Akpan, Eddah Mutua, and the contributors of Indigenous African Communication and Media Systems ……続きを見る

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes oc……続きを見る

Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age to-day in Dutch New Guinea by A. F. R. Wollaston is an insightful ethnographic work that explores the diverse cultures, lifestyles, and environments of the Indigenou……続きを見る

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from th……続きを見る

In "Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics," Michael F. Guyer explores the controversial and often contentious concept of eugenics, tracing its historical roots and examining its implications ……続きを見る

Anthropology and the Classics brings together seminal essays that explore the intersections between classical studies and the emerging field of anthropology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries……続きを見る

First published in 2005. This book, a collection of lectures delivered at King's College, London in 1925, is a brilliant tribute to the spirit of chivalry. Lectures on the historical context of chiv……続きを見る

“Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” ーGeorge Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone workin……続きを見る

The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure. It helps us understand the arts through ……続きを見る

A chronicle of a unique waterscape and how its inhabitants navigated, claimed, and reshaped the region. Winner, Richard J. Wright Publication Award, presented by the Association for Great Lakes Mari……続きを見る

Non sono molte le attività che, come lo sport, riescono a far incontrare, nella vita di tante persone in tutto il mondo, la corporeità, le emozioni, la politica, il denaro e la moralità. Che ci si t……続きを見る

Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth’s Nature and Its Unnatu……続きを見る

Education in Ancient Rome (1977) examines the development, structure and role of education from the third century B.C. to the time of Trajan, a period which saw great changes in Roman society. It pr……続きを見る

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing. Given the proliferation of such forms across academic contex……続きを見る

In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriage crisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid institutional, technological, and intellectual……続きを見る

Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment’s reflection to con……続きを見る

Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music--as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form--……続きを見る

A compilation by Richard F. Veit and Alasdair M. Brooks including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Investigative Methods, Places and Landscapes, "Small Things" Material Culture, ……続きを見る

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’……続きを見る

An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology). When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in drivi……続きを見る

First published in 1902, this book investigates the history and development of early religion from an anthropological perspective. Rather than dealing with religions that grew from the teachings of ……続きを見る