Author: Philip Mayer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, routledge, approach, socialization, social
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 041533036X
ISBN-13: 9780415330367

This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. First published in 1967.

Author: I.M. Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, social, history, routledge
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 0415330335
ISBN-13: 9780415330336

Examining the ways in which social anthropologists might gain from and contribute to, historical studies this volume contains papers on historical studies by anthropologists on 19th century Nupe, Yoruba and Benin and 17th century Cameroons in West Africa; on the succession in kingship in Buganda; and on the development of national politics in Albania. First published in 1968.

Author: Jennifer Robertso
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: anthropology, companions, blackwell, japan, companion
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2005-07-18
List price: $183.95
ISBN-10: 0631229558
ISBN-13: 9780631229551

A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field’s most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society -- past and present -- in accessible language. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nati

Author: Ted Lewellen
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: anthropology, century, enters, cultural, globalization
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0897897382
ISBN-13: 9780897897389

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. "Globalization" refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird’s-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marg

Author: Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: anthropology, linguistic, language, introduction
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $91.95
ISBN-10: 0495508845
ISBN-13: 9780495508847

Ottenheimer’s authoritative yet approachable introduction to the field’s methodology, skills, techniques, tools, and applications emphasizes the kinds of questions that anthropologists ask about language -- and the kinds of questions that intrigue students. The text brings together the key areas of linguistic anthropology, addressing issues of power, race, gender, and class throughout. Further stressing the everyday relevance of the text material, Ottenheimer includes "In the Field" vignettes that draw you in to the chapter material via stories culled from her own and others’

Author: Ted Lewellen
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: anthropology, century, enters, cultural, globalization
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0897897404
ISBN-13: 9780897897402

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. "Globalization" refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird’s-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marg

Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anthropology, departures, new, persons, texts, publics
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $90.99
ISBN-10: 0521837871
ISBN-13: 9780521837873

What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in wh