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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596
Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(2005)
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x
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 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9
• Choice Reviews Online
(2003)
Preface Introduction: Who Is Alma? Globalizing Anthropology Slouching Toward Globalization The Anthropology of Globalization Development, Devolution, and Discourse Constructing Identity Globalization and Migration Migration: People on the M...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-4085
Patrick Eisenlohr • American Anthropologist
(2002)
Linguistic Anthropology:. Reader. Alessandro Duranti. ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 493 pp....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.677
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002423
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100224
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 elds, one could further divide a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854
Donald Slesinger, Franz Boas • The Yale Law Journal
(1929)
1. What Is Anthropology? 2. The Problem of Race 3. The Interrelation of Races 4. Nationalism 5. Eugenics 6. Criminology 7. Stability of Culture 8. Education 9. Modern Civilisation and Primitive Culture References...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/789733
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/201393
(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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139166645
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 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315017952
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776
Paul E. Farmer • Current Anthropology
(2004)
Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/382250
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201
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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