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Books on: anthropology of society

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Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art

Book by Evelyn Payne Hatcher; Bergin & Garvey, 1999

Subjects:

Art And Anthropology, Art And Society

Collections: Entire Library

An introduction to the cross-cultural study of art from an anthropological perspective, this book is about the human condition in all its diversity. It explores the question of whether there is a correlation between the level of complexity of society and the nature of art.
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Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World

Book by Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman; University of California Press, 2001

Subjects:

Ethnology--Comparative Method, Ethnology--Philosophy, Group Identity, Political Anthropology, Power (Social Sciences)

Collections: Entire Library

"Eric Wolf has literally set the terms for anthropological thinking about peasantries, culture and power, complex societies, and interactions between noncapitalist societies and capitalism. Every item in this excellent collection has stimulated and influenced both my own thought and that of many ...
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"Eric Wolf has literally set the terms for anthropological thinking about peasantries, culture and power, complex societies, and interactions between noncapitalist societies and capitalism. Every item in this excellent collection has stimulated and influenced both my own thought and that of many others in our field, as well as beyond it. "--Katherine Verdery, University of Michigan
"This powerful body of work begins ('Anthropology') and ends ('Concepts') in a rather speculative vein, taking us into the ideas of others and then back to Wolf. In these two sections we get a picture of the development of currents in anthropology (and the social sciences more broadly) from the early fifties to the present and the way in which Wolf's intellectual and political development was threaded through those debates and controversies. In the middle two sections ('Connections' and 'Peasants') we get the pathbreaking pieces that made Wolf the major figure he is. "--Gavin Smith, University of Toronto
"Thereis a large,audience, to be found in anthropology and in related fields like history, cultural studies, gender studies, etc., who will receive the writings of Eric Wolf with appreciation. . . . His work is fully in the comparative anthropological tradition . . . [and] demonstrates the power of comparative historical analysis. "--Abraham Rosman, Barnard College, Columbia University
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I Am Dynamite: A Nietzschean Anthropology of Power

Book by Nigel Rapport; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Individualism, Individualism--Case Studies, Philosophical Anthropology

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite , the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the ...
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Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite , the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, Israeli ceramicist and immigrant Rachel Siblerstein, artist Stanley Spencer, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he shows how we can have the capacity and inclination to formulate 'life projects'. It is in the pursuit of these life projects, that is, making our life our work, that we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution.
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British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain

Book by Nigel Rapport; Berg, 2002

Subjects:

Anthropology--Great Britain--History, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs, National Characteristics, British

Collections: Entire Library

The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality ...
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The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism and transnationalism are found reflected in the lives of a wide range of British 'subjects'--from farmers to dancers, children to retired miners, new-agers to entrepreneurs.In disputing traditional claims that anthropology 'at home' and 'of one's own' is misconceived, unnecessary or unperceptive, this book clearly establishes that an anthropology of Britain can set excellent standards of subtle ethnography and complex analysis.Providing a nuanced appreciation of the intricacies of British society, this book shows how the anthropological study of Britain can offer an enlightening paradigm for the study of individual lives.
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An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology

Book by Roy Wagner; University of California Press, 2001

Subjects:

Anthropology--Philosophy

Collections: Entire Library

"An Anthropology of the Subject "rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in "The Invention of Culture "and "Symbols That Stand for Themselves ...
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"An Anthropology of the Subject "rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in "The Invention of Culture "and "Symbols That Stand for Themselves, "respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity. In studying the human subject and the way human culture mirrors itself, Wagner has redefined holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency."
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Journal Articles on: anthropology of society

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Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence

Journal article by Nicole Merritt; Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 32, 2003

Subjects:

Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence (Book)

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence...Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence...particular society or institution...requirement of previous knowledge...undergraduate anthropology, sociology...
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Lambek, Michael, Ed. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

Journal article by Elizabeth A. Ragan; International Social Science Review, Vol. 78, 2003

Subjects:

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...another concentration of contributions by anthropologys "heavy hitters"--Bronislaw Malinowski...Mary Douglas--although not the examples of their work one usually sees in such readers...the relationship between religion and society and/or politics--one written by Roy Rappaport...
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Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa

Journal article by Kate Meagher; Africa, Vol. 75, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Fiscal Disobedience: an anthropology of economic regulation...in central African society. Ethnographic research...regulatory power through an anthropology of informal economic regulation...accumulation. Instead of an anthropology of economic regulation...
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Pnina Werbner. Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult

Journal article by Jonathan G. Andelson; Utopian Studies, Vol. 17, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...modern world as well as debates within anthropology over how best to understand the modern...Werbners writing is informed by the work of some of the major anthropological thinkers...forms of religion emerging in contemporary society? (2) is charisma anti-structural or part...
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The Performance of Gender: An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village

Journal article by Maarten Bavinck; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Performance of Gender: An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...management of household resources. Writing about fisher society along the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram also highlights the substantial...Mukkuvar women, 1991). Standard works on maritime anthropology stress the strong division of labour prevalent...

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Magazine Articles on: anthropology of society

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Islam in the Netherlands-And Indonesia: What Kind of a 'Pillar of Society'?

Magazine article by Roger Kershaw; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Autumn 2006

Subjects:

Islam--Indonesia, Islam--Netherlands, Islam--Religious aspects, Muslims--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...conceptualise it at all), have seemed to condemn Dutch society to a slow submergence below the waters of unconstrained multicultural pluralism. 8 In...Apart from his own very down-to-earth social anthropology, he was quite a philosopher of the sociological...
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The Decline and Fall of Anthropology

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, March 15, 1993

Subjects:

Anthropologists--Practice, Anthropology--Public opinion, Anthropology--Social aspects, Mead, Margaret--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...measure one society against another...was when anthropology was the most romantic of academic...of modern anthropology, a widely accepted tenet of which is that every society evolves the...well-being of society by spending...anthropologists read anthropology," which makes...
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FROM SAVAGE TO NEGRO: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954

Magazine article by Gerard Fergerson; The Nation, Vol. 268, February 15, 1999

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...Montague Cobb, a Howard faculty member in the anthropology and anatomy departments and an MD, showed that health differentials were a result of inadequate access to healthcare, not deviant...largely assert that we live in a color-blind society where barriers to social mobility do not...
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Margaret Mead vs. Tony Soprano : Feminist Anthropology Fights for Public Voice in a New Era

Magazine article by Micaela Di Leonardo; The Nation, Vol. 272, May 21, 2001

Subjects:

Anthropology, Feminism--Research, Mead, Margaret--Criticism and interpretation, Women anthropologists--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...politics from public sphere inspection. And anthropology, sententiously self-described as the most humanistic of the sciences, the most scientific of the...differing cultural features in a "more simple" society that "we," meaning middle-class white...
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Dealing with Religious Beliefs: Some Suggestions from Anthropology

Magazine article by Phillips Stevens Jr.; Free Inquiry, Vol. 16, Winter 1995

Subjects:

Anthropology--Religious aspects, Belief and doubt--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...uniformly accepted outside the discipline of anthropology. Some nineteenth-century ethnologists took their definition of religion as the structure of beliefs...the number of "true believers" in any society is relatively small is rendered moot...

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Newspaper Articles on: anthropology of society

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TEENS AIN'T WHAT Generations One Family. THEY USED TO BE; Six Who Were Teenagers in Six Different Decades. Fascinating Stories Provide a Telling Picture of How Much Society Has Changed

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 8, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...normal, middleclass thing to do. I studied anthropology and linguistics and had a fabulous time...before deciding what to do. I flew out of London with pounds sterling500 cash and...experiences and not feel pressured by society to settle down and get a steady job, or...
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Discovering New Old Culture: Olmec Art Reveals Little-Known Ancient Society

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, June 30, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...scratch the surface of the earliest complex society in the Americas and the one that established...Olmecs had no writing. Certain elements of the Olmec art style are, indeed, strange...Miss Benson; Mr. Diehl, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama; Peter David...
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New Culture Taking Hold within Larger World of Education

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 9, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...During my adolescence, I was fascinated by anthropology. I loved reading Peter Freuchens "Book of the Eskimos," Margaret Meads "Coming of Age...a new culture developing within the larger society. This inspired me to analyze home-schoolers...
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Author Evokes Lure of Danger in Best-Selling Tale of Tempest: Success Comes as Shock to Frustrated Childhood Daredevil

Newspaper article by Liz Trotta; The Washington Times, October 15, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Anonymous. Whatever problem you have, society can fix it for you, except in these two...success already has spawned a new trend of narrative nonfiction. "For whatever succeeds...Concord Academy, and majored in cultural anthropology at Wesleyan University. For 15 years he...
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Cleared, PC Who Killed Student in His Speeding Patrol Car; Father Attacks Collapse of Case and Calls for Crackdown on Police Pursuits

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 26, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Higson, who was studying sociology and anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, died from...struck on a pedestrian crossing in one of Oxfords busiest streets last November...behaviour fell far short of the standards society can expect from police officers. A spokesman...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: anthropology of society

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Anthropology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ANTHROPOLOGY classification...and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively...origins of human society and the sources of myth. A unifying science, anthropology has not lost...History of Anthropology (1979); A...Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations...
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Functionalism , in Anthropology and Sociology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and sociology in anthropology and sociology, a theory stressing the importance of interdependence among...interdependent system of a society, and that functioned...way as to perpetuate a society. The functionalist approach...as essential features of social life, and simplifies...
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Museums of Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Society Gallery; the New-York Historical Society , noted for its 19th-century American...American art; and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. In Boston the Museum...Fine Art and the National Museum of Anthropology , which houses a vast treasure of Mexican...
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Museums of Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...college teaching museums, that specialize, notably in anthropology; one of these is the National Museum of the American Indian...Sciences of Philadelphia (est. 1812) and the Boston Society of Natural History (now the Museum of Science) are...
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Ribeiro, Darcy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...notably the six-volume 1960s work, Studies of the Anthropology of Civilizations. Ribeiro served briefly in the cabinet...native Amazonian and European components of Brazilian society. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth...

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