Holistic Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 16
• Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is... Lees meer

Engaging Evil

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 36
• Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its ... Lees meer

Categories and Classifications

N J Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 8
• Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Durkheim's nephew, was a key figure among Durkheimians and helped to found the distinctive French tradition in the social sc... Lees meer

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 37
• The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of... Lees meer

Hunting the Gatherers

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 6
• Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the... Lees meer

Regimes of Ignorance

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 29
• Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the ... Lees meer

Returning Life

Knut Christian Myhre

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 32
• A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk, beer, and blood on the ground, requesting rai... Lees meer

The Spirit of Matter

Peter Pels

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 45
• A range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and c... Lees meer

Categories of Self

André Celtel

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 10
• Drawing on anthropological, socio-psychological, religious, and philosophical material, this book engages in a discussion of what it means to be an 'i... Lees meer

Anthropologists in a Wider World

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 7
• The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider... Lees meer

Hunting the Gatherers

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 6
• Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the... Lees meer

Expeditionary Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 33
• The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradit... Lees meer

Medicinal Rule

Koen Stroeken

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 35
• As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have l... Lees meer

Anyone

Nigel Rapport

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 24
• The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the ... Lees meer

Regimes of Ignorance

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 29
• Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the ... Lees meer

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 26
• The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social syst... Lees meer

Human Origins

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 30
• Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discip... Lees meer

Taboo, Truth and Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 2
• Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thoroug... Lees meer

Difficult Folk?

David Mills

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 19
• How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost b... Lees meer

Anthropologists in a Wider World

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 7
• The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider... Lees meer

Up Close and Personal

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 25
• Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treati... Lees meer

The Scope of Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 23
• Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and ... Lees meer

Up Close and Personal on Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 25
• Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treati... Lees meer

Total Atheism

Stefan Binder

• Hardcover | Engels | Methodology & History in Anthropology | nr. 38
• Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India's rapidly transformin... Lees meer