Seeing Anthropology
Author | : Karl G. Heider |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780205305582 |
Video includes short clips from 15 ethnographic films, tied to chapters in the book.
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Author | : Karl G. Heider |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780205305582 |
Video includes short clips from 15 ethnographic films, tied to chapters in the book.
Author | : Karl G. Heider |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Accompanying videocassettes include short ethnographically accurate films on a wide range of culture types and world areas which contribute to the subject of the chapters.
Author | : Anna Grimshaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2001-04-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780521774758 |
Grimshaw discusses issues of vision in anthropology, considering some key figures throughout the twentieth century.
Author | : Michael Wesch |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724963673 |
Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.
Author | : Clara Han |
Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0823289486 |
An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents—to Korea and to the Korean language—allowing her, as she explains, to find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the child inhabits her everyday life. Seeing Like a Child offers readers a unique experience—an intimate engagement with the emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass displacement and death—inviting us to explore categories such as “catastrophe,” “war,” “violence,” and “kinship” in a brand-new light.
Author | : Harry F. Wolcott |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780759111691 |
Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies, offering important suggestions on improving and deepening research practices for both novice and expert researchers.
Author | : Joana Breidenbach |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0295989505 |
This engagingly written, jargon-free challenge to the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. Culture is too often understood as a straightjacket of values that make people act in a certain way. A more accurate and constructive approach is to see culture as a changing system of meaning, which individuals deploy selectively to make sense of the world.
Author | : Karl G. Heider |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780205389124 |
Seeing Anthropology continues to be the only cultural anthropology text available that allows for easy integration of ethnographic films into the introductory cultural anthropology course. This text truly incorporates films within the text by blending textbook content with fourteen ethnographic film clips that are put in the hands of students. More flexible ordering options are available with the new edition (See New to this Edition section below). One reviewer says, The greatest strengths of this text are its unique and skillful use of film clips to enhance student learningI can think of no better way to extend student learning in anthropology than the use of films, and there is no one more qualified to select and present anthropological films than the author of this book.
Author | : Gillian Tett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1982140984 |
While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges. Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of the world? Leaders today typically look for answers in economic models, Big Data, or artificial intelligence platforms. Gillian Tett points to anthropology—the study of human culture. Anthropologists learn to get inside the minds of other people, helping them not only to understand other cultures but also to appraise their own environment with fresh perspective as an insider-outsider, gaining lateral vision. Today, anthropologists are more likely to study Amazon warehouses than remote Amazon tribes; they have done research into institutions and companies such as General Motors, Nestlé, Intel, and more, shedding light on practical questions such as how internet users really define themselves; why corporate projects fail; why bank traders miscalculate losses; how companies sell products like pet food and pensions; why pandemic policies succeed (or not). Anthropology makes the familiar seem unfamiliar and vice versa, giving us badly needed three-dimensional perspective in a world where many executives are plagued by tunnel vision, especially in fields like finance and technology. “Fascinating and surprising” (Fareed Zararia, CNN), Anthro-Vision offers a revolutionary new way for understanding the behavior of organizations, individuals, and markets in today’s ever-evolving world.
Author | : James C. Scott |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300252986 |
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University