New Perspectives In Anthropology
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Author |
: Krista E. Latham |
Publisher |
: Academic Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2017-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128125380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128125381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification by : Krista E. Latham
New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification provides a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective on human identification methods in forensic anthropology. Divided into four distinct sections, the chapters will reflect recent advances in human skeletal identification, including statistical and morphometric methods for assessing the biological profile (sex, age, ancestry, stature), biochemical methods of identification (DNA analysis, stable isotope analysis, bomb curve analysis), and use of comparative radiography. The final section of this book highlights advances in human identification techniques that are being applied to international populations and disaster victims. The contributing authors represent established experts in forensic anthropology and closely related fields. New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification will be an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students interested in state-of-the-art methods for human identification. - A comprehensive and up-to-date volume on human identification methods in forensic anthropology - Focuses on recent advances such as statistical and morphometric methods for assessing the biological profile, biochemical methods of identification and use of comparative radiography - Includes an entire section on human identification techniques being applied to international populations and disaster victims
Author |
: Cecilie Eriksen |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2022-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800735989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800735987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Perspectives on Moral Change by : Cecilie Eriksen
The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.
Author |
: Gary Armstrong |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1997-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015041005573 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entering the Field by : Gary Armstrong
As the 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States clearly demonstrated, football is the quintessential global game. One of the world's most popular arenas for the expression of conflict and emotion, it is virtually unparalleled as a site for cultural analysis. Players, officials, supporters and commentators all have key roles in a social drama incorporating the deeply symbolic and ritualistic. A powerful vehicle for ideals of masculinity, football also offers penetrating insights into the iconography of the body; manifestations of rivalry and conflict; discourses of knowledge; expressions of communitas and geo-social belonging; the celebration and denigration of the Other; and the inversion of power hierarchies through carnival.In bringing these themes together, this accessible and absorbing book by leading scholars of sport and leisure reveals football's differing meanings across cultures. It will be of interest to students and scholars in cultural studies, anthropology, sports sciences and, more simply, to anyone with a passion for this global game.
Author |
: Cecilie Eriksen |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2020-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030610371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030610373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moral Change by : Cecilie Eriksen
How does moral change happen? What leads to the overthrow or gradual transformation of moral beliefs, ideals, and values? Change is one of the most striking features of morality, yet it is poorly understood. In this book, Cecilie Eriksen provides an illuminating map of the dynamics, structure, and normativity of moral change. Through eight narratives inspired by the legal domain and in dialogue with modern moral philosophy, Eriksen discusses moral bias, conflict, progress, and revolutions. She develops a context-sensitive understanding of ethics and shows how we can harvest a knowledge of the past that will enable us to build a better future.
Author |
: Pnina Werbner |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2009-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847885418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847885411 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism by : Pnina Werbner
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The book's major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North--in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico--juggle universalist commitments with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities. Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. It introduces the reader to key debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, and is written clearly and accessibly for undergraduates in anthropology and related subjects.
Author |
: S. Elizabeth Bird |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253221261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253221269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of News and Journalism by : S. Elizabeth Bird
This title explores the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective. Essays by leading scholars look at communities of professional and nonprofessional journalists.
Author |
: Jay Ruby |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2016-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781512806434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1512806439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Crack in the Mirror by : Jay Ruby
Like Conrad's Marlow, whose tale of journeying into the "heart of darkness" gives us as much insight into one man's personality as it does into the mysteries of the dark world he explored, so the anthropologist's record of another culture contains more than objective, scientific data about his investigation. Embedded within it are clues to the "personality" of anthropology itself: the attitudes, approaches, even prejudices that at any given stage in history are inextricable from the ideology of the anthropologist. Therefore, the mirror he holds up to show us another culture can never be a perfect one. His own professional attitude toward his subject, as well as his choice of medium, are factors that create "cracks" in the mirror of anthropology through which we believe we view the life of other cultures. Hence, the concept of "reflexivity" and the striving to recognize how it warps in the portrayal of anthropological truth lie at the core of the twelve finely wrought essays collected in this volume. Wide ranging in geography as well as viewpoint, they highlight various methods and media (film, ethnography, text) through which an anthropologist chooses to portray a culture, and the various forms, such as art, theater, and ritual, through which a culture portrays itself. Recognizing the link between these two processes provides the key to cultural and methodological self awareness. Reflexivity is defined and clarified in the introduction and in three of the essays, and the remaining nine essays evince the principle through fieldwork and startling case studies. Essays by Jay Ruby and Eric Michaels shed new light on the enormous potential of film and video, showing how a form generally thought to be "nonscientific" can in fact give fresh insight into the scientific premises underlying the discipline's methodology. Essays by Barbara Babcock and Carol Ann Parssinen focus on the novel and ethnography, examining existing works. Anthropologists, as well as students of film, art, and theater, will find that this intriguing work begins to redefine traditional distinctions between science and the arts and brings to light fresh resources that are utilized in the search for anthropological truth. Contributors: Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Barbara Myerhoff, Jay Ruby, Eric Michaels, Dennis Tedlock, George Marcus, Paul Rabinow, Barbara Babcock, Carol Ann Parssinen, and Dan Rose.
Author |
: Brian M. Howell |
Publisher |
: Baker Academic |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493418060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493418068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introducing Cultural Anthropology by : Brian M. Howell
What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology. Plentiful figures, photos, and sidebars are sprinkled throughout the text, and updated ancillary support materials and teaching aids are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.
Author |
: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2020-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000038576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000038572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Praise of Historical Anthropology by : Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot be limited to situating its object in its immediate context; rather its true subject of study is society as a historical problem. The book describes the complex attempts to transcend this separation, presenting perspectives, methodologies and direct applications for the study of power relations and systems of social classification, paying special attention to the reconstruction of colonial situations. Following the maxim expounded by John and Jean Comaroff, this book will help us understand that historical anthropology is not a matter of merging the two disciplines of anthropology and history, but rather considering societies in their historically situated dimension and applying the tools of the social and human sciences to the analysis. In this vein, the book reviews the complex attempts to bridge disciplinary separations and theoretical proposals coming from very different traditions. The text, consequently, opens up hegemonic perspectives to include 'other anthropologies.'
Author |
: Mark Allen Peterson |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571812784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571812780 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthropology & Mass Communication by : Mark Allen Peterson
Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis. Drawing on dozens of semiotic, ethnographic and cross-cultural studies of mass media, it offers new insights into the analysis of media texts, offers models for the ethnographic study of media productio and consumption, and suggests approaches for understanding media in the modern world system. Placing the anthropological study of mass media into historical and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book examines how work in cultural studies, sociology, mass communication and other disciplines has helped shape the re-emerging interest in media by anthropologists. A former Washington D.C. journalist, Mark Allan Peterson is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He has published numerous articles on American, South Asian and Middle Eastern media, and has taught courses on anthropological approaches to media t at he American University in Cairo, the University of Hamburg, and Georgetown University.