Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity 19th Edition
by Conrad Kottak
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1260598136, 1260259293 | 593 Pages | PDF (True) | 935 MB

Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon, "The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology"
English | 2018 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 1138612871, 1138015636 | PDF | 3,5 mb

Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism By Victoria Sanford, Asale Angel-Ajani
2006 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 0813538912 | PDF | 15 MB
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome?In Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring together an international array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race, gender, and social position on the research process. Through ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing so.

Changing Fields of Anthropology: From Local to Global By Michael Kearney
2004 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0847693724 | PDF | 16 MB
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical perspectives. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism, and defense of universal human rights.

Anthropology of Race: Genes, Biology, and Culture By John Hartigan (editor)
2013 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1934691992 | PDF | 10 MB
What do we know about race today? After years of debate and inquiry by anthropologists, the question remains fraught with emotion and the answer remains complicated and uncertain. Anthropology of Race confronts the challenge of formulating an effective rejoinder to new arguments and new data about race, and attempts to address the intense desire to understand race and why it matters.

Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss By Rosanne Cecil (editor)
1996 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 1859731252 | PDF | 5 MB
How much influence does culture have on a mother's reactions to pregnancy loss? At what stage is a fetus attributed with human status? How does this affect the mother's reactions to the loss of a baby?Contemporary, historical and oral-history accounts from regions as diverse as rural North India, urban America, South Africa and Northern Ireland, provide a fascinating insight into the experience and management of miscarriage across a number of different cultures. The authors explore how the social, technological and medical context in which miscarriages occur can affect the ways in which women experience such an event. In the West, advances in medical technology, a low infant-mortality rate and a low birth rate have raised expectations as to the successful outcome of each pregnancy. In addition, the early confirmation of pregnancy makes consequent pregnancy loss -- which might have gone unnoticed or unconfirmed in the past -- all the more difficult for mothers in the West. Yet, mourning rituals and behaviour at a pregnancy loss, which may be elaborate in some societies, are generally considered to be inappropriate in many Western societies. Differing social beliefs regarding the causes of miscarriage, preventative measures and curative treatments are also examined. Medical anthropologists, sociologists and health professionals will all find this book fascinating reading.

Étienne Balibar, Steven Miller, Emily Apter, "Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology"
English | 2016 | pages: 413 | ISBN: 082327361X, 0823273601 | PDF | 3,4 mb
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of Étienne Balibar's career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation between the categories of citizen and subject. In this magnum opus, the question of modernity is framed anew with special attention to the self-enunciation of the subject (in Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, and Derrida), the constitution of the community as "we" (in Hegel, Marx, and Tolstoy), and the aporia of the judgment of self and others (in Foucualt, Freud, Kelsen, and Blanchot).

Dale W. Cannon, "Recovering the Personal: The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat"
English | ISBN: 1498540945 | 2016 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 714 KB + 2 MB
Modernity has radically challenged the assumptions that guide our ordinary lives as persons, in ways we are not normally aware. We live our concrete lives taking for granted that personal decisions, desires, relationships, actions, aspirations, values, and knowledge are central to our existence. But in modernity, we think of these matters as private, idiosyncratic, and subjective, even irrational. This modern conception of ourselves and the associated way of reflection known as modern critical thinking came to dominate our thinking is culminates in the dualistic philosophy of René Descartes. This dualism has spawned a reductionist view of persons and tainted "the personal" with connotations of bias, partiality, and privacy, leaving us with the presumption that if we seek to be objective and intellectually respectable, we must expunge the personal.

Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0824878205, 0824884264 | 246 pages | EPUB | 7.3 MB
Confucius Institutes, the language and culture programs funded by the Chinese government, have been established in more than 1,500 schools worldwide since their debut in 2004. A centerpiece of China's soft power policy, they represent an effort to smooth China's path to superpower status by enhancing its global appeal. Yet Confucius Institutes have given rise to voluble and contentious public debate in host countries, where they have been both welcomed as a source of educational funding and feared as spy outposts, neocolonial incursions, and obstructions to academic freedom. China in the World turns an anthropological lens on this most visible, ubiquitous, and controversial globalization project in an effort to provide fresh insight into China's shifting place in the world.

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins
2022 | ISBN: 0691215928 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB