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The Drug Company Next Door (Hardcover)

This fascinating and most timely critical medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical... more

Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia (Paperback)

Small Sacrifices is an ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan Indonesian Borneo. Like many indigenous peoples throughout the world the Ngaju have recently been affected by exposure... more

Routledge Studies in Anthropology Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide Book 13 (Hardcover)

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land air and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to... more

Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology: Ó¦mie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature (Hardcover)

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback) 089789233X 9780897892339

The world is fast becoming a global factory in which workers entrepreneurs and multinational corporations find themselves producing for the world capitalist market. This collection of original essays explores in concrete anthropological detail the... more

The Cosmic Drama of Salvation (Paperback)

Sang M. Lee studies the cosmic drama of salvation which Paul describes in his undisputed writings. Utilizing the two pillars of Paul s theology - anthropology and cosmology - his aim is to understand how God s salvific drama develops in Paul s... more

Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice The Anthropology of Police (Paperback)

What are the potential contributions of anthropology to the study of police? Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to... more

Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur Paul Ricoeur s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability Capability Justice (Hardcover)

This book contextualizes Paul Ricoeur s philosophy through the lens of philosophical anthropology. It shows how Ricoeur renews this tradition by developing a hermeneutic of human self-expression a phenomenology of the capable human and an ethics of... more

Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness (Hardcover)

Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism claims to hometown belonging and... more

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology: The Heart of the Pearl Shell : The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea the flow of pearl shells is the heart of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and... more

Selected Letters of William Robertson Smith (Hardcover)

William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) is generally considered to be among the most important pioneers of Biblical Criticism Social Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies. This volume contains ca. 400 letters to his family friends and... more

Writing History: Writing Material Culture History (Hardcover)

Writing Material Culture Historyexamines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology anthropology art history and literary studies the book provides history students with a fundamental... more

New Departures in Anthropology: The Anthropology of Intensity (Hardcover)

What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies... more

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices politics and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology sociology health science and cultural studies. Many of the chapters... more

Theology and Religion in Interdisciplina Religion and the Individual: Belief Practice Identity (Paperback)

What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs practices and identities mean to them? The individual s place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses.... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Inside the Revolution (Hardcover)

The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years Inside the Revolution offers a rare close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen... more

Cornell University East Asia Papers : Family Change and the Life Course in Japan (Paperback)

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family... more

Routledge Library Editions. Anthropology Political Systems and the Distribution of Power (Paperback)

Modern political anthropology began in 1940 with the first systematic comparative studies of how primitive societies maintained law and order. The focus was on government and the presence or absence of state institutions. Recently interest has... more

Studies in Environmental Anthropology Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics: A Darrell Posey Reader (Paperback)

Darrell A. Posey who died in 2001 was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International... more

Identities Through Fashion (Paperback)

Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines now that the rules once tightly fixed have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy sociology medicine anthropology... more

Identities Through Fashion (Hardcover)

Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines now that the rules once tightly fixed have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy sociology medicine anthropology... more

Pre-Owned Short-Term Mission : An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience 9780830839735

Brian Howell provides an anthropology of short-term mission (STM) among American Christians. Delivering a history of STM along with an ethnographic case study of a trip to the Dominican Republic Howell argues that the movement is sustained by a... more

Ritual in Its Own Right: Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation (Paperback)

This edited volume full of new and original perspectives makes an important contribution to the anthropological and historical study of ritual. . . . this fine collection of essays is a challenging and provocative contribution to the study of ritual... more

Pre-Owned Thinking about Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion (Paperback) 1405120126 9781405120128

This history-based introduction to the study of religion introduces the main methods theories and theorists in the field. Introduces the main methods theories and theorists in the field. Engages with leading figures from the history of anthropology... more

Pre-Owned The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (Paperback) 0804204233 9780804204231

A classroom standard for two decades The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers... more

The Marginalized in Death (Hardcover)

This volume brings forensic and cultural anthropology closer together through case studies of structural violence and power. Paying attention to how death further marginalizes minoritized populations this volume goes beyond conventional forensic... more

AAR Teaching Religious Studies: Teaching Lévi-Strauss (Paperback)

Claude Lévi-Strauss s mid-twentieth-century work in structural anthropology revolutionized the study of myth kinship and totemism with lasting effects in cultural studies generally and especially in religious studies. This book provides an... more

Race Gender and Science The Racial Economy of Science (Paperback)

The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences philosophy sociology anthropology and women s studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding . . . has... more

Contemporary Cuba: Santería Healing: A Journey Into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities Spirits and Sorcery (Paperback)

Will be of interest not only to specialists in Afro-Cuban and African Diaspora religions but also to medical anthropologists and students of anthropology psychology and religious studies. This work provides a particularly revealing entry way into... more

Pre-Owned Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective 9780813343846

Integrating biocultural environmental and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health this premier teaching text for medical anthropology has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field.Good Condition: Minimal damage to the... more

Case Studies in Anthropology Fulbe Voices: Marriage Islam and Medicine In Northern Cameroon (Paperback)

Though sharing many terms of debate Fulbe persons passionately argue about Muslim ideals and pagan practices about Fulbe tradition and national reform and about local histories and global flows. In Fulbe culture social worlds are articulated and... more

World Archaeology: Pathways Through Time (Hardcover)

The study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture is known as archaeology. It is often considered a branch of socio-cultural anthropology. However it also draws from biological geological and environmental systems... more

Routledge Advances in Urban History Urban Emotions and the Making of the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Book 10 (Hardcover)

This book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars - from anthropology architecture art history film studies fine art history literature linguistics and urban studies - to explore the role of emotions in the making and remaking of... more

Pre-Owned Symbol and Sacrament:: A Contemporary Sacramental Theology. (Paperback) 188187110X 9781881871101

In this comprehensive study Michael Lawler incorporates the insights of philosophy anthropology biblical and liturgical studies to fashion a theology of sacraments as prophetic symbols. Reflection on each of the sacraments he presents the... more

Asa Monographs Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology (Paperback)

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice from analyses of green ideology and imagery enviromental law and policy and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their... more

Pre-Owned Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore (Hardcover) 0517336332 9780517336335

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890 The Golden Bough was... more

The Sakyans of SouthEast Asia an Introspection Or Tracing Roots [Hardcover]

The book is an encyclopaedia of the Sakyan history in which Sakyamuni Gautama Buddha was born. It traces the roots of the Sakyan clan in the perspective of history ethnography anthropology archaeology philosophy religion and DNA Studies. It asserts... more

Cultural Anthropology 9/E (Paperback) by William A Haviland

Trade paperback. 9th ed. Language: English. Pages: 528. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. This textbook both challenges and supports readers with a look at the diversity of... more