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The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology (1982)

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

Comparison in Anthropology

Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2018)

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609

The Future of Visual Anthropology

Sarah Pink • Routledge eBooks (2006)

From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596

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

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

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

Anthropology and/as Education

Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks (2017)

There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others....

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315227191

Anthropology, by Comparison

• Routledge eBooks (2002)

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901

Anthropology and Autobiography

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203450536

Anthropology contra ethnography

Tim Ingold • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2017)

Ethnography aims to describe life as it is lived and experienced, by a people, somewhere, sometime. Anthropology, by contrast, is an inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of human life in the world. Anthropology and ethnography may ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.005

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Catherine S. Dolan, Emma Gilberthorpe, Dinah Rajak • Wiley eBooks (2017)

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology is the most complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that toget...

OPENALEX public-domain DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396