Anthropological Abstracts 8 2009

Author : Ulrich Oberdiek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643998729

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Anthropological Abstracts 8/2009 by Ulrich Oberdiek Pdf

Anthropological Abstracts is a reference journal published once a year in print, and it lists - in English language - most publications in the field of cultural/social anthropology published in the German language area (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland). Since many of these publications have been written in German, and most German publications in anthropology are not included in the major English language abstracting services, Anthropological Abstracts offers a convenient source of information for anthropologists and social scientists in general who do not read German. Included are journal articles, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, yearbooks, etc. Most abstracts are authored by the editor, while others are specified accordingly. The journal has been edited by Ulrich Oberdiek since 1993 (formerly: Abstracts in German Anthropology; since 2002: Anthropological Abstracts). (Series: Anthropological Abstracts - Cultural/Social Anthropology from German-speaking Countries - Vol. 8)

Author : H. Russell Bernard
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759112438

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Research Methods in Anthropology by H. Russell Bernard Pdf

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ BernardOs unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Author : Claude Cernuschi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187855

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Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam by Claude Cernuschi Pdf

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ritual ceremonies and information collected from informants, enhances the interpretive background against which we can construe the meanings of Lam's art. In the process, Claude Cernuschi argues that Lam hoped to fashion a new hybrid style to foster pride and dignity in the Afro-Cuban community, as well as counteract the acute racism of Cuban culture.

Author : H. Russell Bernard,Harvey Russell Bernard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412978545

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Social Research Methods by H. Russell Bernard,Harvey Russell Bernard Pdf

Bernard does an excellent job of not only showing how to practice research, but also provides a detailed discussion of broader historical and philosophical contexts that are important for understanding research.

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199781607

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The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World by Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin Pdf

The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of family continuity and inter-family relationships, or legal issues like legitimacy, adoption and inheritance. Recent publications have examined a variety of aspects related to childhood in ancient Greece and Rome, but until now nothing has attempted to comprehensively survey the state of ancient childhood studies. This handbook does just that, showcasing the work of both established and rising scholars and demonstrating the variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the classical world. In thirty chapters, with a detailed introduction and envoi, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field as well as younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World engages with perennially valuable questions about family and education in the ancient world while providing a much-needed touchstone for research in the field.

Author : Ulrich Oberdiek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9783643998330

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Anthropological Abstracts 9/2010 by Ulrich Oberdiek Pdf

Anthropological Abstracts is a reference journal published once a year in English language text, listing most of the publications in the field of cultural/social anthropology that have been published in the German language area (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland). Since most German language publications are not included in the major English language abstracting services, Anthropological Abstracts provides a convenient source of information for anthropologists and social scientists who do not read German, offering an awareness of anthropological research and publications in German-speaking countries. Included are journal articles, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, yearbooks, etc. (Series: Anthropological Abstracts - Cultural / Social Anthropology from German-Speaking Countries - Vol. 9)

Author : Dennis Dirkmaat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118959794

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A Companion to Forensic Anthropology by Dennis Dirkmaat Pdf

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods. Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.

Author : Emma Gilberthorpe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003838470

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Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges by Emma Gilberthorpe Pdf

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges. Whilst it could not hope to represent the full scope of anthropological perspectives, those that are presented highlight some of the critical flaws embedded in such an all-encompassing notion. The contributors reveal the possibilities of reimagining the ways in which ‘challenges’ are understood and addressed and demonstrate how a combination of deep understanding of the past and collaboration, cooperation and inclusive dialogue about the future, can improve the chances of positive action. The collection thus not only shows us that perspectives must change, but also how that change might be realised. Whilst the chapters are authored solely by anthropologists, this book is not solely for anthropologists. The book is illustrative of the practical and theoretical insights that anthropology can offer those individuals, teams, and policy- and decision-makers engaged in research, mitigation and/or intervention practices in relation to the global challenges. Beyond academia, it contributes to broader understandings of the challenges we collectively face at this point in time and how we might collectively and effectively address them.

Author : Shirley A. Fedorak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9781487593209

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Anthropology Matters by Shirley A. Fedorak Pdf

"Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world that surrounds it. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest students. The third edition of this popular text has been updated throughout and includes two new chapters: globalization and transnational mobility, and the responsibility of the global community to refugees. The book has also been revised and updated throughout to reflect current events and popular topics, including the impact of social media on social, political, and religious systems, interviews with women who veil, and discussion of design anthropology."--

Author : Stephen Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315435602

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A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology by Stephen Leach Pdf

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology. The book details-Klejn’s diverse work on ethnogenesis, migration, Homeric studies, pagan Slavic religion, homosexuality, and the history of archaeology;-his life challenges as a Russian Jewish scholar, jailed for homosexuality by the KGB and for his challenges to Marxist dogma;-his key contributions to theoretical archaeology and, in particular, Klejn’s comparisons between archaeologists and forensic scientists.

Author : Susan A Crate,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315434759

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Anthropology and Climate Change by Susan A Crate,Mark Nuttall Pdf

The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology’s engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Chapters in part one are systematic research reviews, covering the relationship between culture and climate from prehistoric times to the present; changing anthropological discourse on climate and environment; the diversity of environmental and sociocultural changes currently occurring around the globe; and the unique methodological and epistemological tools anthropologists bring to bear on climate research. Part two includes a series of case studies that highlights leading-edge research—including some unexpected and provocative findings. Part three challenges scholars to be proactive on the front lines of climate change, providing instruction on how to work in with research communities, with innovative forms of communication, in higher education, in policy environments, as individuals, and in other critical arenas. Linking sophisticated knowledge to effective actions, Anthropology and Climate Change is essential for students and scholars in anthropology and environmental studies.

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594778919

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The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios by Marlene Dobkin de Rios Pdf

A look inside almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by a noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca • Reveals how ayahuasca successfully treats psychological and emotional disorders • Examines adolescent drug use from a cross-cultural perspective • Discusses the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon Ayahuasca is an alkaloid-rich psychoactive concoction indigenous to South America that has been employed by shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and healing purposes. Although the late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, such as the distinguished anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this amazing compound. The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios presents the accumulated experience of de Rios’s 45 years of pioneering field studies in the area of hallucinogens in Peru and the Amazon. Her investigation into ayahuasca--which she undertook in collaboration with more than a dozen traditional Mestizo folk curanderos, shamans, and fellow ethnobotanists--focuses on the use of this revolutionary plant in the treatment of recalcitrant psychological and emotional disorders. She also shares some of her theories that prove that the ancient Maya used psychedelic plants as part of their religious rituals, thereby demonstrating the impact of plant psychedelics on human prehistory. In addition, Dobkin de Rios examines altered states of consciousness derived from the use of biofeedback and hypnosis and discusses her current work on the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon.

Author : American Anthropological Association
Publisher : Amer Anthropological Assn
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1931303258

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American Anthropological Association Abstracts 2005 by American Anthropological Association Pdf

Author : Bradley A. Levinson,Mica Pollock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119111665

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Education by Bradley A. Levinson,Mica Pollock Pdf

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse range of educational settings around the world, in both formal and non-formal contexts Includes contributions by leading educational anthropologists Integrates work from and on many different national systems of scholarship, including China, the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Colombia, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom, and Denmark Examines the consequences of history, cultural diversity, language policies, governmental mandates, inequality, and literacy for everyday educational processes

Author : Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315530321

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Anthropology and Climate Change by Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall Pdf

The first edition of Anthropology and Climate Change (2009) pioneered the study of climate change through the lens of anthropology, covering the relation between human cultures and the environment from prehistoric times to the present. This second, heavily revised edition brings the material on this rapidly changing field completely up to date, with major scholars from around the world mapping out trajectories of research and issuing specific calls for action. The new edition introduces new “foundational” chapters—laying out what anthropologists know about climate change today, new theoretical and practical perspectives, insights gleaned from sociology, and international efforts to study and curb climate change—making the volume a perfect introductory textbook; presents a series of case studies—both new case studies and old ones updated and viewed with fresh eyes—with the specific purpose of assessing climate trends; provides a close look at how climate change is affecting livelihoods, especially in the context of economic globalization and the migration of youth from rural to urban areas; expands coverage to England, the Amazon, the Marshall Islands, Tanzania, and Ethiopia; re-examines the conclusions and recommendations of the first volume, refining our knowledge of what we do and do not know about climate change and what we can do to adapt.