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| Author | : Thomas Crump |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1992-10-15 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521438070 |
Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science.
| Author | : Alan Barnard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2000-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1316101932 |
Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.
| Author | : Rebecca Bryant |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2019-03-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108421857 |
Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
| Author | : N. J. Enfield |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 910 |
| Release | : 2014-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139992325 |
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences.
| Author | : David F. Lancy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1107072662 |
Enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, this revised edition examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present.
| Author | : Brian Morris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780521852418 |
This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists - Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism. Eschewing a thematic approach and treating religion as a social institution and not simply as an ideology or symbolic system, the book follows the dual heritage of social anthropology in combining an interpretative understanding and sociological analysis. The book will appeal to all students of anthropology, whether established scholars or initiates to the discipline, as well as to students of the social sciences and religious studies, and for all those interested in comparative religion.
| Author | : Sandra Bamford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-06-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781107697744 |
Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field - this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have recent advances in reproductive medicine fundamentally altered our understanding of biological properties? How has globalization brought in its wake new ways of imagining human relatedness? What might recent shifts in state welfare policies tell us about those relations of power that define the difference between 'functional' versus 'dysfunctional' families? Addressing these and many other timely concerns, this volume presents the results of cutting edge research and demonstrates that the study of kinship is likely to remain at the core of anthropological inquiry.
| Author | : John George Peristiany |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2005-02-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521619325 |
This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.
| Author | : C. Nadia Seremetakis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2017-05-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1443891711 |
This book engages young scholars, teachers and students in a critical dialogue with past and present directions in cultural-historical studies. More particularly, it prepares prospective anthropologists, as well as readers interested in human cultures for understanding basic theoretical and methodological ethnographic principles and pursuing further what has been known as cultural anthropological perspectives. The book discusses key, field-based studies in the discipline and places them in dialogue with related studies in social history, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and photography, among others.
| Author | : Theodore Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780521426091 |
The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.
