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Epistemology, fieldwork, and anthropology
\"Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology explores the space between epistemology and methodology, offering a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations in anthropology. Olivier de Sardan investigates the complex links between the observed reality, data production, and grounded theories, addressing the issues of bias management and the rigor of qualitative methods\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Black atlantic religion
Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African culture in the Americas has most flourished among the urban and the prosperous, who, through travel, commerce, and literacy, were well exposed to other cultures. Their embrace of African religion is less a \"survival,\" or inert residue of the African past, than a strategic choice in their circum-Atlantic, multicultural world.
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Social and cultural anthropology: the key concepts
\"Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:Material CultureEnvironmentHuman RightsHybridityAlterityCosmopolitanismEthnographyApplied AnthropologyGenderCyberneticsWith full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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In pursuit of the good life
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.
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Our story : how cultures shaped people to get things done
\"The story of human evolution, or Our Story, is about the development and refinement of cultures. Individuals cannot do things on their own, this book argues; their choices are driven by heuristics, biases, illogical preferences, and irrational assumptions about the nature of reality. So how did humanity survive? By forming more and more successful cultures, which are teams of people who share a specific vision of the world. Because cultures-as-teams are more effective if there is a strong correspondence among the members, they select individuals who clarify the team's vision and force compliance to that vision. Thus, cultures-as-teams are powerful agents for change in the world. They offer the individual the opportunity to accomplish unimaginable goals, but they can also destroy him or her in the process\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein
Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.
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The Fragmentary City
As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring states. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences. Gardner focuses on the ways that demography and global mobility have shaped the city of Doha and the urban characteristics of the Arabian Peninsula in general. Building on those migrant experiences, the book turns to the spatial politics of the modern Arabian city, exploring who is placed where in the city and how this social landscape came into historical existence. The author reflects on what we might learn from these cities and the societies that inhabit them.
In The Fragmentary City, Andrew M. Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future.
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Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America
Demonstrating the wide variation among complex
hunter-gatherer communities in coastal settings
This book explores the forms and trajectories of social
complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who lived in coastal,
estuarine, and riverine settings in precolumbian North America.
Through case studies from several different regions and
intellectual traditions, the contributors to this volume
collectively demonstrate remarkable variation in the circumstances
and histories of complex hunter-gatherers in maritime
environments.
The volume draws on archaeological research from the North
Pacific and Alaska, the Pacific Northwest coast and interior, the
California Channel Islands, and the southeastern U.S. and Florida.
Contributors trace complex social configurations through
monumentality, ceremonialism, territoriality, community
organization, and trade and exchange. They show that while factors
such as boat travel, patterns of marine and riverine resource
availability, and sedentism and village formation are common
unifying threads across the continent, these factors manifest in
historically contingent ways in different contexts.
Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America
offers specific, substantive examples of change and transformation
in these communities, emphasizing the wide range of complexity
among them. It considers the use of the term complex
hunter-gatherer and what these case studies show about the
value and limitations of the concept, adding nuance to an ongoing
conversation in the field.
Contributors: J. Matthew Compton | C. Trevor
Duke | Mikael Fauvelle | Caroline Funk | Colin Grier | Ashley
Hampton | Bobbi Hornbeck | Christopher S. Jazwa | Tristram R.
Kidder | Isabelle H. Lulewicz | Jennifer E. Perry | Christina Perry
Sampson | Thomas J. Pluckhahn | Anna Marie Prentiss | Scott D.
Sunell | Ariel Taivalkoski | Victor D. Thompson | Alexandra
Williams-Larson
A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal
Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M.
Fitzpatrick
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