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• Culture and language use
(2024)
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehe...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23
Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2012)
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139028639
Michael M. J. Fischer • Duke University Press eBooks
(2009)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390794
Rebecca Bryant, Daniel M. Knight • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2019)
Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378277
Judith Okely, Helen Callaway • Routledge eBooks
(1992)
1. Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied Knowledge Judith Okely 2. Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and text Helen Callaway 3. Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing Paul...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203450536
George E. Marcus, Michael M. J. Fischer • University of Chicago Press eBooks
(1999)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226229539.001.0001
Jeffrey Mifflin • Visual Anthropology
(2012)
Pinney, Christopher. Photography and Anthropology. London: Reaktion Books, 2011; 174 pp., notes, bibliography, index, 89 illus. ISBN 9781861898043 and 1861898045; pbk, $29.95. Photography and Anthr......
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2012.629932
Bialecki, Jon, Naomi Haynes, Robins, Joel • Duke University Press eBooks
(2006)
This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub-discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirical interes...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388159
Keith Hart, Talal Asad • British Journal of Sociology
(1974)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/589327
Ryan Cecil Jobson • American Anthropologist
(2020)
ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13398
Arturo Escobar • American Ethnologist
(1991)
Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of “development.” Although anthropologists in general have not prob‐...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1991.18.4.02a00020
Bill Maurer • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2006)
This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123127
Sarah Pink • Social Anthropology
(2010)
A focus on the senses has become a key theme in contemporary anthropology. In this short piece I suggest that this focus can be understood in terms of two strands, the original anthropology of the senses on the one hand, and the newer senso...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00119_1.x
Charlotte Seymour-Smith (1986)
An authoritative reference work, the Macmillan Dictionary of Anthropology covers the entire range of scholarship in this field, from the early ethnographers to the most recent research. This concise g...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08037-3
KAREN BRODKIN SACKS, Henrietta L. Moore • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
(1990)
Feminism and anthropology - the story of a relationship gender and status - explaining the position of women understanding women's work - kinship, labour and household I the changing nature of women's lives - kinship, labour and household I...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2072413
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro • Common Knowledge
(2011)
The article assumes that the expression “comparative relativism”—the title of the Common Knowledge symposium in which the essay appears—is neither tautological nor oxymoronic. Rather, the author construes the term as an apt synthetic charac...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045
Arthur Kleinman • The British Journal of Psychiatry
(1987)
To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: 'To...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.151.4.447
Terence S. Turner • Cultural Anthropology
(1993)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1993.8.4.02a00010
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks
(2002)
* 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 ref...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036327