Anthropology, History, and Education

Anthropology, History, and Education
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : 9780521452502
ISBN-13 : 0521452503
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Synopsis Anthropology, History, and Education by : Immanuel Kant

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.

History and Theory in Anthropology

History and Theory in Anthropology
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781316101933
ISBN-13 : 1316101932
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Synopsis History and Theory in Anthropology by : Alan Barnard

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.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9781119111665
ISBN-13 : 1119111668
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Synopsis A Companion to the Anthropology of Education by : Bradley A. Levinson

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse range of educational settings around the world, in both formal and non-formal contexts Includes contributions by leading educational anthropologists Integrates work from and on many different national systems of scholarship, including China, the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Colombia, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom, and Denmark Examines the consequences of history, cultural diversity, language policies, governmental mandates, inequality, and literacy for everyday educational processes

Lectures on Anthropology

Lectures on Anthropology
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9780521771610
ISBN-13 : 0521771617
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Synopsis Lectures on Anthropology by : Immanuel Kant

The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9780759113220
ISBN-13 : 075911322X
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Synopsis The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood by : David F. Lancy

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Anthropological research on learning in childhood has been scarce, but this book will change that. It demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it shows the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Book jacket.

Anthropology of Education

Anthropology of Education
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Publisher : Lit Verlag
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056921086
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Synopsis Anthropology of Education by : Christoph Wulf

Educational anthropology constitutes a new and important field of education. It deals with central educational concepts from an anthropological perspective. As historical and cultural anthropology, it takes into account the historicity and culturality of education. The book focuses on major issues of education: The Problem of Human Perfectibility and the Difficulty of Human Change, Mimesis in Education, Culture and Anthropology, Global and Intercultural Education, and Educational Anthropology: A New Perspective on Education. Christoph Wulf is professor of educational anthropology and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology at the Freie Universitt, Berlin.

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 9780857450937
ISBN-13 : 085745093X
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Synopsis Evidence, Ethos and Experiment by : P. Wenzel Geissler

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.

Anthropologies of Education

Anthropologies of Education
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780857452740
ISBN-13 : 0857452746
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Synopsis Anthropologies of Education by : Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt

Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.

Historical Anthropology of the Family

Historical Anthropology of the Family
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 0521276705
ISBN-13 : 9780521276702
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Synopsis Historical Anthropology of the Family by : Martine Segalen

Over the past decade or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was a variety of family structures within a range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, the author synthesises European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family that shows the reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant.

Race and the Education of Desire

Race and the Education of Desire
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0822316900
ISBN-13 : 9780822316909
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Synopsis Race and the Education of Desire by : Ann Laura Stoler

Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of History of Sexuality in an unexplored light. She asks why there has been such a muted engagement with this work among students of colonialism for whom issues of sexuality and power are so essential. Why is the colonial context absent from Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? In Race and the Education of Desire, Stoler challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire. She also argues that this first volume of History of Sexuality contains a suggestive if not studied treatment of race. Drawing on Foucault's little-known 1976 College de France lectures, Stoler addresses his treatment of the relationship between biopower, bourgeois sexuality, and what he identified as "racisms of the state." In this critical and historically grounded analysis based on cultural theory and her own extensive research in Dutch and French colonial archives, Stoler suggests how Foucault's insights have in the past constrained--and in the future may help shape--the ways we trace the genealogies of race. Race and the Education of Desire will revise current notions of the connections between European and colonial historiography and between the European bourgeois order and the colonial treatment of sexuality. Arguing that a history of European nineteenth-century sexuality must also be a history of race, it will change the way we think about Foucault.