Author: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd
Keywords: anthropologist, africa, south
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1987-03
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0710209827
ISBN-13: 9780710209825

Author: Mary Batten
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: people, scientist, anthropologist
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2001-09-24
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618083685
ISBN-13: 9780618083688

Imagine making your living by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants and insects. Imagine having to worry about being attacked by a jaguar or some other wild animal. This is how our ancestors lived for hundreds of thousands of years, but only a few peoples carry on this ancient lifestyle today. One of the few are the Ache, hunter-gatherers living in Paraguay, a country in South America. Magdalena Hurtado is an anthropologist who has been studying the Ache for fifteen years. She has spent years living with the Ache people: learning their language, observing their history. The photographs

Author: Nigel Barley
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: hut, mud, notes, anthropologist, innocent
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1577661567
ISBN-13: 9781577661566

When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted. Unfortunately, nobody had told the Dowayo. His compulsive, witty account of first fieldwork offers a wonderfully inspiring introduction to the real life of a cultural anthropologist doing research in a Third World area. Both touching and hilarious, Barley’s unconventional story—in which he survived boredom, hostility, disaster, and illness—addresses many critical issues in anthropology and in fieldwork.

Author: Hortense Powdermaker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: anthropologist, way, friend, stranger
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1967-04-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393004104
ISBN-13: 9780393004106

"The book is absolutely excellent . . . a unique fascinating account of the work of one of our leading anthropologists." —Colin M. Turnbull "Her book is all about people. . . . The publishers say of it that ’field work in its personal and objective dimension is placed under a kind of microscope. The book is a must for all field workers in the social sciences.’ That claim does not seem to me excessive." —Edmund Leach, New York Review of Books "There are few books which are as informative of what it means to be a field-worker in social science as Hortense Powdermaker’s

Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Orient Longman
Keywords: essays, marxists, among, anthropologist
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 8178240017
ISBN-13: 9788178240015

’Inside every thinking there is a Gandhian and a Marxist struggling for supremacy’, says Ramachandra Guha in the opening sentence of this wonderfully readable book of ideas, opinions and reflections. A substantial portion of the book expands on this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and psuedo-Gandhians, Marxists and anti-Marxists, Nehruvians and anti-secularists, democrats and Stalinists, scientists and historians, environmentalists and cricketers - in short all those who comprise the intellectual life of thinking Indians today.

Author: Thomas C. Patterson
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: anthropologist, marx, karl
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1845205111
ISBN-13: 9781845205119

After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today.  Marx was profoundly influenced by critical Enlightenment thought.  He believed that humans were social individuals that simultaneously satisfied and forged their needs in the contexts of historically particular social relations and created cultures.  Marx continually refined the empirical, philosophical, and practical dimensions of

Author: Oliver Sack
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: tales, paradoxical, seven, mars, anthropologist
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 1996-02-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679756973
ISBN-13: 9780679756972

The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind." The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks’s stories are of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie. The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic