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Genetics and Philosophy

Paul E. Griffiths, Karola C. Stotz • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511744082

Genetics and Reductionism

Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1998)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216

The Anthropology of Christianity

Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass (2008)

Abstract 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 empirica...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x

Information systems and anthropology: and anthropological perspective on IT and organizational culture

David Avison, Michael David Myers • Information Technology and People (1995)

Considers the potential role of anthropology as a source discipline for information systems. Although anthropology has been largely neglected in the IS research literature, it is argued that important insights can be gained by adopting an a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593849510098262

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.

Paul Hockings, Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1998)

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3034522

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

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

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

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 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

Rethinking Anthropology

Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks (2021)

The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1

Anthropological Linguistics

• 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...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23

Lectures on Anthropology

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139028639

The Anthropology of Christianity

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...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388159