Anthropology

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century.

Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction provides students with an accessible overview of the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Ethnography, the backbone of social anthropology, enjoys privileged position in social science research.

This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today's physical posture practice.

In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q'ero since the 1960s.

The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes.

This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education.

This book examines the challenges faced by developmental scientists as the population under the age of 18 in the United States has become a majority-minority, with no racial/ethnic group having a numeric majority.

This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion and integration from a health systems perspective.

This handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe.

Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism "e;A bravura study.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers' experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying and contradicting a phenomenon of "e;mistrusted masculinity.

Recorrer la Ciudad de México representa un asalto a los sentidos.

Desde una mirada socioantropológica, esta obra ofrece nuevas herramientas y perspectivas teórico-metodológicas para discutir problemáticas vinculadas a los procesos de organización y subjetivación indígenas, así como para analizar procesos de memorias colectivas en contextos diversos.

David Le Breton es un investigador sensible que ahonda en la temática del cuerpo desde la dimensión humana.

Historiadores y antropólogos registran procesos históricos de formación de comunidades indígenas en la Patagonia, con el objetivo de observar la manera en que se redefinen, sobre el territorio, comunidades y colectivos mapuches y tehuelches a causa del arrinconamiento y desplazamiento constantes a las que fueron y son sometidas.

Estos textos buscan reflexionar acerca de algunas representaciones, discursos y prácticas que construyen la Patagonia, al abordar la relación entre cultura-naturaleza como reflexión política, la religiosidad de migrantes latinoamericanos, la producción de territorialidad a partir de la cartografía colonial, y el desierto y política pública.

¿Cómo se construye la memoria en contextos de subordinación?

The chapters collected in this volume represent the "e;state-of-the-art"e; of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci.

In this book, Stefan Battle weaves together autoethnographic narrative and ethnographic performance material from his own life and those of four other Black men, to show the untold impact of racial trauma on these everyday lives.

Originally published in 1974, the conclusions of the book are based on intensive field-work during 1963-66 in a village in south-east Rajasthan, India.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication the process of appropriating new media and technology and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the fields advancement.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication the process of appropriating new media and technology and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the fields advancement.

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred.

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the worlds most remote communities.

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred.

Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences.

Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences.

Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south.

In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics.

Written by one of the leading experts on food activism, this is the only independent, full-length study of the Slow Food movement.

Written by one of the leading experts on food activism, this is the only independent, full-length study of the Slow Food movement.

Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Este libro examina las experiencias históricas, subjetividades y formas de resistencia de grupos indígenas del Gran Chaco y el rol que ha tenido la antropología en analizar y al mismo tiempo silenciar estos procesos.

La política, como toda actividad humana, necesariamente se espacializa y produce espacios sociales en su propio devenir.

Es imprescindible para cualquier ritualista práctico, practique la magia o la brujería doméstica, que tenga o conozca los productos y pequeños secretos que actualmente pueden hallarse fácilmente a la venta, y que son utilizados en la magia de cada día.

Desde hace varias décadas, las actividades, ceremonias y rituales conocidos popularmente como "magia casera" se han venido extendiendo de una manera extraordinaria por diversos grupos y clases sociales.

¿Quién es y cómo es una bruja actual?

Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Originally published in 1974, the conclusions of the book are based on intensive field-work during 1963-66 in a village in south-east Rajasthan, India.

Hecho en Chile.

The chapters collected in this volume represent the "e;state-of-the-art"e; of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci.

In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration, paid employment, and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies, in decision making in households, and in the sexual division of labour and power.

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the worlds most remote communities.

How do white people handle their own dominance while striving for racial reconciliation in a concrete church context in Cape Town?