The Anthropology Of Real Life
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Author | : Philip Carl Salzman |
Publisher | : Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The Anthropology of Real Life is about how events push and pull, oppress and liberate, enhance and destroy people's lives. While people are shaped by their cultures and their position in society, events--whether authored by natural forces, by other people, or by people themselves--take on a life of their own, and become independent forces determining human destinies. An anthropology of events shows the way in which the substance and texture of life change over time, as one major event fades and another arises, itself only to fade and be replaced by yet a new event.
Author | : Riall W Nolan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429980639 |
“Students will really appreciate this book. It has a rare combination of humor, clarity, exceptional writing, and, above all, a precision in outlining skills and knowledge for practice. As a professional, I learned much that will be useful to me.” —Alexander M. Ervin, University of Saskatchewan “At last, a textbook on development anthropology that is comprehensive, clearly written, and up-to-date! Nolan provides an exceptionally useful framework for analyzing development projects, carefully illustrated with mini-case studies.” —Linda Stone, Washington State University “Nolan’s book should be a backpack staple for the practitioner of grassroots development.” —Jan Knippers Black, Monterey Institute of International Studies Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of anthropology’s many uses in international development projects. Written from a practitioner’s standpoint and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book provides students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The book outlines the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development and their involvement with each other throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how development projects work and how anthropology is used in project design, implementation, and evaluation. The final section of the book considers how both development and anthropology must change in order to become more effective. An appendix provides practical advice to students considering a career in development anthropology.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439144117 |
From cults to crime to porno parlors—this book is about a lot of things that are new and strange in America today. This book is about cults, crime, and shoddy goods, and the shrinking dollar. It's about porno parlors, and sex shops, and men kissing in the streets. It's about daughters shaking up, women on the rampage, marriages postponed, divorces on the rise, and no one having kids. It's about old ladies getting mugged and raped, people shoved in front of trains, and shoot-outs at gas pumps. And letters that take weeks to get delivered, waiters who throw food at you, rude sales help, and computers that bill you for things you never bought. It's about broken benches, waterless fountains, cracked windows, dirty toilets, crater-filled roads, graffiti-covered buildings, slashed paintings, toppled statues, stolen books. It's about shoelaces that break in a week, bulbs that keep burning out, pens that won't write, cars that rust, stamps that don't stick, stitches that don't hold, buttons that pop off, zippers that jam, planes that lose their engines, reactors that leak, dams that burst, roofs that collapse... It's about astrologers, shamans, exorcists, witches, and angels in space suits... It's about a lot of other things that are new and strange in America today. —from the Introduction
Author | : Edward Twitchell Hall |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The autobiography of the world-renowned anthropologist and expert in intercultural communication.
Author | : Charles Stafford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108654231 |
This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and Taiwan, the author encourages anthropologists to take the psychological dimensions of economic life more seriously, but also invites psychologists and economists to pay much more attention than they currently do to cultural and historical variables. In the end, this intrinsically radical book challenges us to step away from disciplinary assumptions and to reflect more deeply on what really matters to us in our collective social and economic life.
Author | : Susan Lepselter |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0472052942 |
An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans
Author | : Charles Stafford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108483216 |
Brings anthropology, psychology and economics together through real examples to explore economic life and the human experience.
Author | : Riall W. Nolan |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351856928 |
How can anthropology students prepare themselves to become practitioners? This book is designed to help students prepare for a career in putting anthropology to work in the world. The book: - Provides an introduction to the discipline of anthropology and its contribution to the world; - Outlines the shape of anthropological practice today; - Describes how students can prepare for a career in practice; - Sets out a framework for career planning; - Reviews challenges arising in the course of a practitioner career; - Includes short contributions from practitioners on aspects of training, practice, and career planning.
Author | : Webb Keane |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691176264 |
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions, showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and social dynamics. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history—and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies while suppressing or ignoring others. Certain to provoke debate, Ethical Life presents an entirely new way of thinking about ethics, morals, and the factors that shape them.
Author | : Martin Demant Frederiksen |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178535700X |
There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meaninglessness and nothingness are seen as troubling. "Meaning" is generally seen as being a cornerstone of the human condition, as that which we strive towards. This was famously explored by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning in which he showed how even in the direst of situations individuals will often seek to find a purpose in life. But what, then, is at stake when groups of people negate this position? What exactly goes on inside this apparent turn towards nothing, in the engagement with meaninglessness? And what happens if we take the meaningless seriously as an empirical fact?