Buy ub-news.com ?
Products related to Anthropologist:
-
The Disabled Anthropologist
This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that “disabled” and “anthropologist” belong together.The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from a profession that would ignore their critiques and creativity.Applying autoethnographic, photographic, and poetic venues, the contributors assess the drawbacks of their anthropology training programs, the limitations of accessibility practices in the academy, and how their own embodiments and the contingencies of their research and research settings have facilitated the discovery of novel methodologies and insights.Collectively this volume’s contributors demonstrate a shared concern for the wellbeing of disabled ethnographers and interlocutors, whether working with Colombian refugees in Ecuador or those living with chronic pain in Michigan. The Disabled Anthropologist is essential reading for students and scholars working in cultural and medical anthropology.
Price: 39.99 £ | Shipping*: 0.00 £ -
The Innocent Anthropologist
The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written.Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline.Although set amongst a little-known tribe in the Cameroons, this slim volume reaches out to a vast audience who would otherwise never look at a travel book about West Africa, let alone an anthropological field study.A seminal text for any student in search of a laugh.Witty, hilarious and unconventional, but also a remarkable intellectual achievement; Barley manages to turn the western science of anthropology on its head, so that for once the laugh is on the professional practitioners not the observed.
Price: 12.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £ -
An Anthropologist on Mars
In An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us.Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life. 'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients.The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' – Independent on Sunday Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Price: 10.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £ -
Think Like an Anthropologist
'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we are?What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to the City of London?Why does it matter?For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from urban Zimbabwe to suburban England, Beijing to Barcelona, uncovering surprising facts, patterns, predilections and, sometimes, the inexplicable, in terms of how humans organize their lives and articulate their values.By weaving together theories and examples from around the world, Matthew Engelke brilliantly shows why anthropology matters: not only because it allows us to understand other points of view, but also because in the process, it reveals something about ourselves too.
Price: 10.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £
Similar search terms for Anthropologist:
-
The World Ahead : An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization.This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action.For Mead, the study of the future was born out of her lifelong interest in processes of change.Many of these papers were originally published as conference proceedings or in limited-circulation journals, testimony before government bodies and chapters in works edited by others.They show Mead's wisdom, prescience and concern for the future of humanity.
Price: 23.95 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £ -
Works and Lives : The Anthropologist as Author
This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the world's leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertz's claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.
Price: 16.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £ -
Forbidden Fruit : An Anthropologist Looks at Incest
What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called blended families but which also exist in many other societies?This prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world.But where does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains?World-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity.It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.
Price: 9.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £ -
Toraja : Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Price: 8.99 £ | Shipping*: 3.99 £
* All prices are inclusive of VAT and, if applicable, plus shipping costs. The offer information is based on the details provided by the respective shop and is updated through automated processes. Real-time updates do not occur, so deviations can occur in individual cases.