A New Economic Anthropology
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032479620 | 119 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action. Meanwhile, anthropological questions have remained largely untreated in economics, despite the prominence given to the individual in microeconomics. And there is very little in the way of dialogue between the two sides. This book argues for a new economic anthropology which goes beyond the conflict of economics and anthropology to show the complementarity of the two approaches. Economics needs to go beyond the stage of homo oeconomicus and be open to broader ideas about the person. Equally, anthropology can be enriched through the methods and models of economic theory. This new economic anthropology goes beyond a simple observation of societies. It is new because it introduces the responsible person with a wider range of characteristics, in particular vulnerability and suffering, as a subject of economics. It is a particular interpretation of economic anthropology calling for a broadening of the subject (moving from the individual to the person), range of values (admission of negative values for altruism, social capital, responsibility), and disciplinary references. Through this approach, both economics and anthropology can be enriched. This book will be of great interest to those working in the fields of economics, anthropology, philosophy, and development studies.

Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies) by Freddy Foks
English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0520390326, 0520390334 | True EPUB/PDF | 280 pages | 3.95/5.95 MB
Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire.

Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments Beyond Determinism By Jens Seeberg; Andreas Roepstorff; Lotte Meinert
2021 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 1787358259 | PDF | 7 MB
Biosocial Worlds offers state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman life-the biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of the natural and the social, the book explores what it means to be human in these worlds, even as the division between scientific disciplines has, for more than a century, maintained a separation of the natural and the social. Drawing on examples from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the volume argues against the separation of the biological and the social in the study of human and nonhuman life and seeks to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation with the aim of rethinking "the biosocial".Health topics in the book include diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease, and wider issues of epigenetics. In addition, the book addresses constructions of health and disease in a wide range of environments and engages with analyses of the concept of environment. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case studies, meanwhile, explore how health and environment are entangled in ways that moves their relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability.

Anthropology of Violent Death
by Parra, Roberto C.;Ubelaker, Douglas H.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119806380 | 428 pages | True PDF | 9.58 MB

Rasha Barrage, "The Little Book of Anthropology"
English | ISBN: 163228085X | 2023 | EPUB | 144 pages | 2 MB
If you're intrigued by the question "What makes us human?", strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of anthropology. . .

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives (ICC Publication) By Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn
1998 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 9056995561 | PDF | 13 MB
Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors that are directly related to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. In this book, the authors have assembled the growing scholarship in one volume. Chapters explore the coevolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of 'disease' and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease.

Simon Coleman, Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Joel Robbins, "The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0814772595 | PDF | pages: 273 | 2.8 mb
The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides a wide ranging and accessible, as well as ethnographically rich, perspective on what has become a truly global religious trend, one that is challenging conventional analytical categories within the social sciences.

Anthropology and Responsibility
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781003332077 | 220 pages | True PDF | 14.69 MB
This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists' collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response.

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets By Brian Moeran
1996 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0700703314 | PDF | 8 MB
This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan. By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies theories on their heads. By analysing the social structure of a modern media organization from the inside, it makes anthropology relevant and intellectually stimulating. By treating the Japanese as a more-or-less normal and rational people, it explodes the usual myths of exotic Japan and steps boldly into a global arena that embraces 'east' and 'west' in a new theory of values.

Wendy Wickwire, "At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging"
English | 2019 | pages: 401 | ISBN: 0774861525, 0774861517 | PDF | 3,8 mb
At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at Spences Bridge, BC, Teit forged a participant-based anthropology that was far ahead of its time. Whereas his contemporaries, including famed anthropologist Franz Boas, studied Indigenous peoples as members of "dying cultures," Teit worked with them as members of living cultures resisting colonial influence over their lives and lands. Whether recording stories, mapping place-names, or participating in the chiefs' fight for fair treatment, he made their objectives his own. With his allies, he produced copious, meticulous records; an army of anthropologists could not have achieved a fraction of what he achieved in his short life. Wickwire's beautifully crafted narrative accords Teit the status he deserves, consolidating his place as a leading and innovative anthropologist in his own right.