Robert J. Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González, "Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442608633, 1442608641 | PDF | pages: 405 | 135.8 mb
Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise but comprehensive introductory textbook that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology's four major subfields: archaeology, and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. By viewing the world through the lens of anthropology, students will learn not only about anthropological methods, theories, and ethics, but also the ways in which anthropology is relevant to their everyday lives and embedded in the culture that surrounds them.

Cool Anthropology
by Baines, Kristina;Costa, Victoria;, Victoria Costa
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1487524412 | 270 pages | True PDF EPUB | 36.28 MB

Anthropology and the Study of Humanity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B071L15PLV | 2017 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Scott M. Lacey, The Great Courses
Narrator: Scott M. Lacey

Brinkley Messick, "Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0231178743, 0231178751 | PDF | pages: 522 | 6.1 mb
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There―while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early nationalists wrought decisive changes to the legal status of the sharīʿa, significantly narrowing its sphere of relevance―the Zaydī school of jurisprudence, rooted in highland Yemen for a millennium, still held sway.

Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
English | June 8, 2021 | ISBN: 1847942873 | 263 pages | PDF (Converted) | 2.15 Mb
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week

, "Indigenous Churches: Anthropology of Christianity in Lowland South America "
English | ISBN: 3031144937 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations.

Holly Peters-Golden, "Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 007811702X | PDF | pages: 321 | 6.4 mb
Ideal for any cultural anthropology course, this brief collection of ethnographic case studies exposes students to 15 different cultures. The groups selected are peoples whose traditional cultures are uniquely their own. Each has distinctive patterns and practices; each has faced the challenge of an encroaching world, with differing results. Moreover, they often provide the prime illustrations of important concepts in introductory anthropology course including Azande witchcraft, Ju/'hoansi egalitarianism, Trobriand kula exchange, and Minangkabau matriliny. As such, this volume can stand alone as an introduction to central ethnographic concepts through these 15 societies, or serve as a valuable companion to anthropology texts. Many of the peoples presented are involved in the diaspora; some struggle to preserve old ways in new places. All sketches follow a logical, consistent organization that makes it easy for students to understand major themes such as history, subsistence, sociopolitical organization, belief systems, marriage, kinship, and contemporary issues.

Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy By Jane I. Guyer
2016 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 022632673X | PDF | 2 MB
Legacies, Logics, Logistics brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007-08, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined theme. When they are brought together and interpreted as a whole by Guyer, these varied essays show how an anthropological and socio-historical approach to economic practices-both in the West and elsewhere-can illuminate deep facets of economic life that the big theories and models may fail to capture. Focusing on economic actors-whether ordinary consumers or financial experts-Guyer traces how people and institutions hold together past experiences (legacies), imagined scenarios and models (logics), and situational challenges (logistics) in a way that makes the performance of economic life (on platforms made of these legacies, logics, and logistics) work in practice. Individual essays explore a number of topics-including time frames and the future, the use of percentages in observations and judgments, the explanation of prices, the coexistence of different world currencies, the reapplication of longtime economic theories in new settings, and, crucially, how we talk about the economy, how we use stable terms to describe a turbulent system. Valuable as standalone pieces, the essays build into a cogent method of economic anthropology.

Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World: A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense By Homayun Sidky
2020 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 179360651X | PDF | 2 MB
At the end of 2019, Americans were living in an era of post-truth characterized by fake news, weaponized lies, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and irrationalism. While many complex interconnected factors were at work, this post-truth era was partly the culmination of a cadre of anthropologists and other academics in American universities and colleges during the 1980's and 1990's. In Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World, H. Sidky examines how their untoward dalliance with problematic and dangerous ideas by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard informed and empowered a forceful assault on science and truth in the following decades by corporate organizations, politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists.

Political Anthropology as Method
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032217782 | 249 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects the pretended stance of scientific neutrality and advances a position that engages with the notion of participation, recognising its value and arguing that participation is essential to the development of a proper social and political understanding. An outline of what political anthropology can offer by way of methods, this invitation to consider the development of methodological ideas beyond the presumed 'scientific' and 'universalistic' approaches that dominate in the social sciences will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology and politics with interests in questions of method and methodology.