In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
English | 7 July 2022 | ISBN: 1786499150, 1786499177 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 6.2 MB
The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.

Doing Anthropology; A Guide By and For Students and Their Professors
by Simone Dennis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032226498 | 333 pages | True PDF | 28.83 MB

Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine By Arthur Kleinman
1997 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0520209656 | PDF | 27 MB
One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate.Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems―for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain―are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.

Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews By Melvin Konner
2003 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0670032441 | PDF | 32 MB
An anthropological analysis of the Jewish people and faith draws on archaeological findings, census data, religious texts, literature, and oral history to demonstrate how Jewish factors shaped the world and how the ongoing diaspora led to the rise of Jewish literacy, education, trade, and influence. 25,000 first printing.

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration
by Max Carocci;Stephanie Pratt;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350248436 | 265 pages | True PDF EPUB | 104.77 MB
Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past.

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader By Setha M. Low (editor)
1999 | 433 Pages | ISBN: 0813527198 | PDF | 19 MB
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; andstudies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning.Selected Chapters:Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. LowPart I. The Divided CityThe Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community, Steven GregoryFortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. CaldeiraPart II. The Contested CitySpatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. LowPart III. The Global CityWholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiki Market, Ted BestorPart IV. The Modernist CityThe Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James HolstonPart V. The Postmodern CitySpatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper

Bare Bones: A Survey of Forensic Anthropology By Michael E Warren, Nicolette Parr, Carlos Zambrano, Katherine Skorpinski
2011 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0757587852 | PDF | 25 MB
Update of 2008 edition with minor corrections and more photographic examples.

Stuart J. McLean, "Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1517902711, 151790272X | PDF | pages: 350 | 6.0 mb
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as "evidence" to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media-including language-that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them.

The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0807007137 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 3.22 MB
The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn't exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their work

Questioning the Human: Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century By Yves De Maeseneer, Ellen Van Stichel, Lieven Boeve (editor)
2014 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0823257525 | PDF | 2 MB
Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, traditional perspectives on the human person are no longer adequate. Yet can theological anthropology move beyond its previously established categories and renew itself in relation to contemporary insights? The present collection of essays sets out to answer this question. Uniting Roman Catholic theologians from across the globe, it tackles from a theological perspective challenges related to the classical natural law tradition (part 1), to the modern conception of the subject (part 2), and to the postmodern awareness of diversity in a globalizing context (part 3). Its contributors share a fundamental methodological choice of a critical-constructive dialogue with contemporary culture, science, and philosophy.This collection integrates a wider range of approaches than one usually finds in theological volumes, bringing together experts in systematic theology and in theological ethics. Authors come from different American contexts, including Black and Latino, and from a European context that include both French and German. Moreover, the interdisciplinary insights upon which the different contributions draw stem from both the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and ethology) and the humanities (such as cultural studies, philosophy, and hermeneutics).This volume will be essential reading for anyone seeking a state-of-the-art account of theological anthropology, of the uncertainties it is facing, and of the responses it is in the process of formulating. The shared Roman Catholic background of the authors of this collection makes this volume a helpful complement to recent publications that predominantly represent views from other theological traditions.