Social and cultural anthropology Books

With a new introduction by Helen Fisher, Ph.D., the classic gender study by renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, which delivers pertinent insights into today's battle of the sexes.Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes...

A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of...

This collection of essays is about the lives, ideas and modes of interaction of children in Ethiopia, against the background that in-depth knowledge of perceptions of cultural values and practices regarding children would contribute to improved work with...

In most of Africa, there is evidence of politicised inter-ethnic rivalry and ethnic mobilisation to acquire, maintain or monopolise power as competition for resources intensify. This volume demonstrates how ethnic diversity can be managed at a number of...

The book examines the nexus between youth conflict and the occult drawing its insights from the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. It sees the occult represented by the Egbesu deity in this conflict as a form of religious belief imbued in this case with...

This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an...

This book is a biography based on a qualitative ethnographic study of adaptation to climate by Mr Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, an award-winning smallholder farmer from Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe. Ethnographic data provides insight and lessons of Mr Phiri...

Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the world and African women are among some of the most widely represented users of skin-lightening products. The overall objective of this...

Zu Beginn des Jahres 2018 überraschte Günter Brakelmann seine Freunde und Bekannten mit sieben Theologisch-anthropologischen und ethischen Reflexionen zur Politik und Geschichte und verband diese mit der Einladung zur kritischen Stellungnahme. Es...

Öberefahre - kulturhistorisch und autobiographisch angereichert. Appenzeller Brauchtum.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Københavns Universitet (EnGeRom), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Clubkultur ist und war Jugendkultur. Clubkultur ist seit den 80ern auch Ravekultur. Und Ravekultur ist...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Wirtschaftslehre des Haushalts und Verbrauchsforschung), Veranstaltung: Gender & Ernährung,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1 (sehr gut), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Geschichte der im...

Ce second récit initiatique fait suite à "La Cité de la Paix".Le deux se fondent sur des faits et des personnages réels.Quatre enquêteurs (initié, archéologue, historien, clairvoyant) se sont rencontrés pour effectuer une mission de première importance,...

"A well-written, balanced historical study which examines all aspects of thegradual emancipation of France's Jews during the Revolution. Comprehensiveand comprehensible, this study investigates the various political intrigues which determined the ebb and...

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has...

What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions...

In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed...

How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and...

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing...

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space...

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized...

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner as an authoritarian regime. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime's ability to control and repress, which should not be...

Religion Evolving argues that religions need to be understood as adaptive systems. Drawing from a wealth of ethnographic and experimental evidence, the authors situate religious traditions within their local socioecological contexts, showing how these...

This interdisciplinary book investigates emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century. Advocates, activist groups, mainstream media and more are considered in this study, which aims to...

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field as well as different theories and methods of analysis of communication itself.

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking...

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and...

As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and...

Community and Communitarianism presents--and defends in detail--a care-centered ideal of a good and moral community: a form of social organization imbued with the virtues of a care-centered ethic, such as cooperation (in "teleological communities,"...

*Includes 100 color images.Japanese manga, anime, music, cinema, television dramas, and computer games have gained many international fans. Recognizing the global appeal of Japanese popular culture, since the early 2000s the Japanese government has...

In this book, Ana Lucia Araujo argues that despite the rupture provoked by the Atlantic slave trade, the Atlantic Ocean was never a physical barrier that prevented the exchanges between the two sides; it was instead a corridor that allowed the production...

The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel...

Entheosonic Whistling Vessels are transformation tools using the inherent power of sound to unlock our creative powers. The universal and sacred language of sounds produced by the vessels are used as a doorway to synchronize acoustic resonance with Gaia,...

Historiography.- Culture History in Britain.- Kulturkreislehre: Central European Approach to Culture History.- Cultural History in Russia.- Cultural History in North America.- Culture in the Lower Paleolithic.- Palaeo-cultures, Techno-modes, and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Lala-Lamba Handbook is a book written by Arthur Cornawallis Madan in 1908. It provides a short introduction to the southwestern division of the Wisa-Lala dialect spoken in Northern Rhodesia, which is now modern-day Zambia. The book is intended to be...

Japan's Accession to the Comity of Nations is a book written by Alexander Siebold in 1901. It provides a detailed account of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation-state in the late 19th century. The book traces Japan's...

Notes On Superstition And Folk Lore is a book written by Jeanie M. Laing and published in 1885. The book is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of superstition and folk lore from around the world. The essays cover a wide range of topics,...

Model Men is a book written by Horace Mayhew and published in 1848. The book is a collection of stories and sketches that provide a fascinating insight into the lives of men who were considered to be models of behavior and conduct during the Victorian...

Pat's Apology: Or England The Wickedest Place In The World! is a book written in 1850 by an anonymous author. The book is a satirical and humorous take on the relationship between England and Ireland during the 19th century. The protagonist, Pat, is an...

Observations Upon The Grammatical Structure And Use Of The Umbundu: Or The Language Of The Inhabitants Of Bailundu And Bihe (1885) is a book written by Wesley Maier Stover. The book provides a detailed analysis of the grammatical structure and usage of...