Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World By Edward J. Hedican
2016 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1442635908 | PDF | 11 MB
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Asa Boholm, "Anthropology and Risk "
English | ISBN: 0415745632 | 2015 | 190 pages | PDF | 1512 KB
Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry.

Anthropology of the Name By Sylvain Lazarus
2015 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0857422308 | DJVU | 11 MB
Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English,Anthropology of the Nameis French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctrine on the nature of politics and the relationship of politics to thought. Whereas most theoreticians of politics start with their ideas on its specific empirical objects-its institutions, such as parties, or its structures, such as the state-Lazarus analyzes politics from within itself. Lazarus's discussion is divided into two parts: a general methodology and a series of case studies. He fiercely argues that politics is a thought with its own field and categories, distinct from political science, economics, history, or philosophy. Politics, Lazarus drives home, is not a permanent feature of society: it is rare and sequential."The most radical critique of the very grounds of social science."-Alain Badiou

Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age (Criminal Practice Series) by Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy
English | Jul 9, 2020 | ISBN: 1350002267 | 296 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spending, and the introduction of neoliberal values into academia. Arguing 'in defense of' anthropology, the editors demonstrate the continued importance of the discipline and reveal how it contributes towards solving major problems in contemporary society. They also illustrate how anthropology can not only survive but thrive under these conditions. Moreover, Collaborations shows that collaboration with other disciplines is the key to anthropology's long-term sustainability and survival, and explores the challenges that interdisciplinary work presents.

Architectural Anthropology - Exploring Lived Space
pdf | 16.15 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B096N66XK4 | Author: Stender, Marie | Year: 2021

Marie Stender, "Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space "
English | ISBN: 0367555751 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethnography for architects, but a new approach beyond these positions: Architectural Anthropology.

John Arblaster, "Mystical Anthropology: Authors from the Low Countries "
English | ISBN: 1472438035 | 2016 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The question of the 'structure' of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally different from the anthropology that has commonly been accepted since the rise of Modernity. This book explores the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp, and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons. The most important aspects of mystical anthropology are discussed: the spiritual nature of the soul, the inner-most being of the soul, the faculties, the senses, and crucial metaphors which were used to explain the relationship of God and the human person. Two contributions explicitly connect the anthropology of the mystics to contemporary thought. This book offers a solid and yet accessible overview for those interested in theology, philosophy, history, and medieval literature.

Facets of Urbanisation: Views from Anthropology By Sumita Chaudhuri (Editor)
2015 | 201 Pages | ISBN: 1443871117 | PDF | 4 MB
This book is the result of an international conference organized by the Commission on Urban Anthropology, the Commission on Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the Department of Anthropology of West Bengal State University, in collaboration with the Anthropological Survey of India, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Indian Museum, and the Centre for Alternative Research in Development. The theme of the conference was Mega-Urbanisation and Human Rights: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities. Rapid urbanisation began with the onset of industrialization, and has numerous social, economic, political and environmental implications. In the context of cities, where society is essentially heterogeneous and pluralistic due to the presence of several ethnic communities, the process of urbanisation becomes further complicated. This has particular implications for many people immigrating to the city, because the shifting of base involves not only the transcending of long physical distances, but also navigating additional cultural barriers that are associated with alien languages and different regions. Increasing urbanisation is emerging as a dominant trend all over the world, particularly in developing countries such as India. Besides examining the impact of urbanisation on human society, this volume also analyses the various different facets of urbanisation, including cultural adaptation; migration; gender distinction in the context of urbanisation; the growth of the Scheduled Tribes in the urban population; slums; urban space; entrepreneurship in the urban context; and the urban environment. Given its cross-cultural perspective, the book will be of great interest to researchers in the social sciences, including anthropologists and sociologists, academics, planners, and policy makers, as well as anyone interested in urban issues.

An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today By Nigel Rapport; Huon Wardle; Henrike Donner
2018 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1350086606 | PDF | 11 MB
How can we rethink the terms of Enlightenment anthropology in a manner and an idiomappropriate to the contemporary era? The essays collated here argue for anthropology'suse in acknowledging, exploring and interpreting divergence and ideological conflict overhuman meaning.The volume is structured around some of the key themes that the Enlightenment fostered,including human nature, time, Earth and the cosmos, beauty, order, harmony and design,morals, and the query of whether wealthy nations make for healthy publics. It focuses inparticular on how 'moral sentiment' offered a guiding idea in Enlightenment thought. Theidea of 'moral sentiment' is central to the essays' grappling with the ethical anxieties ofcontemporary anthropology. The essays therefore trace historical connections and fissures,and focus in particular on Adam Smith's attempts toward an understanding of what wouldlater be called 'modernity' - where the realism that allows us to understand individualexperience appears at odds with the realism which takes on larger scale social processesof enculturation or globalization.With an afterword from Marilyn Strathern, this volume makes a strong addition to the ASAconference proceedings.

Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality (Thinking from Elsewhere) by Andrew Brandel, Marco Motta
2021 | ISBN: 0823294277, 0823294269 | English | 352 pages | EPUB/PDF | 1/2MB
This volume examines an often taken for granted concept―that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language.