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Author : David F. Lancy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108837781
Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.
Author : Thomas Crump
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521438071
Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science.
Author : Roy G. D'Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521459761
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 the l950s and l960s which was concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex and sophisticated cognitive theories of classification in anthropology which took place in the l970s and l980s. In an analysis of more recent developments, the author considers work involving cultural models, emotion, motivation and action. He concludes with a summary of the theoretical perspective of cognitive anthropology.
Author : Rebecca Bryant,Daniel M. Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108421850
Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
Author : Simon Hillson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108395328
Accessible and engaging, this is the definitive textbook on using teeth to study the demography and ways of life in ancient human communities. Based on extensive laboratory and field experience, this new edition combines archaeological approaches with new technologies and methodologies, covering the key advances in anatomy, forensics, 3D imaging, stable isotopes, and proteomics. Hillson provides a biological context for teeth, a guide on key skills, an introduction to current debates, and advice for the excavation, conservation and recording of dental remains. He also showcases the microscopic structure of dental tissues alongside methods of age-determination. Discover solutions to problems such as identifying worn, fragmentary human teeth or understanding their condition. This is the ideal reference for advanced courses in anthropology or archaeology, and for everyone interested in dental remains from archaeological sites, museum collections or forensic cases. Online teaching resources include videos of lectures and practicals.
Author : N. J. Enfield,Paul Kockelman,Jack Sidnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009014617
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences.
Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108474603
Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.
Author : Sandra Bamford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107697743
Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field - this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have recent advances in reproductive medicine fundamentally altered our understanding of biological properties? How has globalization brought in its wake new ways of imagining human relatedness? What might recent shifts in state welfare policies tell us about those relations of power that define the difference between 'functional' versus 'dysfunctional' families? Addressing these and many other timely concerns, this volume presents the results of cutting edge research and demonstrates that the study of kinship is likely to remain at the core of anthropological inquiry.
Author : H. James Birx
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 3138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761930297
Collects 1,000 entries on the subfields on anthropology, including physical anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, linguistics, and evolution.
Author : Ian Langham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981-10-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9027712646
Traces the influence of major anthropological figures on kinship studies; includes discussion of changing analyses of Australian Aboriginal kinship, marriage-class systems and totemism.
Author : C. Nadia Seremetakis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443891714
This book engages young scholars, teachers and students in a critical dialogue with past and present directions in cultural-historical studies. More particularly, it prepares prospective anthropologists, as well as readers interested in human cultures for understanding basic theoretical and methodological ethnographic principles and pursuing further what has been known as cultural anthropological perspectives. The book discusses key, field-based studies in the discipline and places them in dialogue with related studies in social history, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and photography, among others.
Author : Martin Thomas,Amanda Harris
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337734
The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyzes the often passionate arguments they provoked. Drawing on recent developments in gender studies, indigenous studies, and the history of science, the book argues that even today, the ‘science of man’ is deeply inscribed by its connections with expeditionary travel.
Author : John George Peristiany,J. G. Peristiany,Julian Pitt-Rivers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521619327
This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.
Author : David Zeitlyn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443869164
Realism has become a dirty word in some social sciences, yet, despite fashionable new approaches involving multiple ontologies and the like, when anthropologists actually produce ethnographic accounts they are, still, indulging in realism in some form. Perhaps this is why ethnography, too, is unfashionable. Given the authors’ background as anthropologists committed to fieldwork, this book provides a theoretical grounding to justify and explain the sorts of accounts that anthropologists produce as the result of ethnographic research. The book’s approach starts from an acceptance that understanding is always incomplete, always improvable. This sort of partiality is viewed throughout the book as a strength. The challenge of anthropology is that it involves forms of translation: often across languages, but always between the unstated and the explicit. Accepting provisionality and incompleteness in the resulting translations provides ways of finding a middle ground between extreme versions of positivism and relativism. As such, this book argues for moderate realisms in a dappled world.
Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782389958
There are very few inside accounts of academic departments, their history and ethnography. The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge constitutes an appropriate case study to fill this gap. Having emerged from the work of figures such as Maine, Robertson Smith, Rivers and Haddon through to more recent international scholars such as Fortes, Leach, Goody, Gellner and Strathern, it is one of the oldest and most distinguished departments in the social sciences. It has trained many of the leading anthropologists working today, and many of its students are established in important positions around the world. It has added enormously to our understanding of the wider world through research in all continents and regions. Based on thirty-five years of participant-observation fieldwork in the Department from 1975-2009, as Lecturer, Reader and Professor, Alan Macfarlane gives a brief history and reflects on life in the department, including the physical space, clothing, conversation, meetings and micro-politics. He also describes some of the changes over fifty years of post-colonial adaptation. This small book is part of the celebration for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology held in Cambridge in February 2015.
