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A History of Anthropology

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen • Pluto Press eBooks (2013)

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9

Social Anthropology of Technology

Bryan Pfaffenberger • Annual Review of Anthropology (1992)

At the onset of the 20th century, anthropologists such as Balfour, Marett, and Haddon could readily identify three spheres of strength in anthropological research: material culture, social organization, and physical anthropology (49). The s...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002423

The Anthropology of Food and Eating

Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011

Anthropology, History, and Education

Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2007)

Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been tran...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791925

Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations

Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies (2012)

Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835

An Anthropology of Knowledge

Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology (2002)

Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131

Design and Anthropology

Keith M. Murphy • Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)

In this review, I examine the recent turn to design in anthropology in three different configurations: anthropology of design, anthropology for design, and design for anthropology. Although these three configurations represent different cut...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100224

Animals and Anthropology

Molly H. Mullin • Society and Animals (2002)

Anthropology encompasses four distinct subdisciplines: biological anthropology, social anthropology (known as “cultural anthropology” in North America), archaeology, and linguistics. Beyond these basic four Želds, one could further divide a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854

Anthropology and Colonialism

Diane Katherine Lewis • Current Anthropology (1973)

Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For e...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/201393

The Anthropology of Landscape

(1995)

Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001

Anthropological Linguistics

William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks (2012)

Abstract Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics (and anthropology) concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, its role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structure...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031

The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

Roy G. D’Andrade • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1995)

In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139166645

Marxism and Anthropology

Maurice E. F. Bloch • Routledge eBooks (2013)

This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315017952

Anthropological Research

Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1978)

This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations abo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776

The Anthropology of Emotions

Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White • Annual Review of Anthropology (1986)

Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201

An Anthropology of Biomedicine

Margaret M. Lock, Vinh‐Kim Nguyen (2018)

An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural ...

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Anthropology of Ontologies

Eduardo O. Kohn • Annual Review of Anthropology (2015)

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127

An Anthropology of Ethics

James D. Faubion • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2011)

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Fouca...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511792557

Anthropology of Fishing

James Acheson • Annual Review of Anthropology (1981)

Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anth...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.10.100181.001423