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Author : Patricia Uberoi
Publisher : Seagull Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anthropology in the East written by Patricia Uberoi and published by Seagull Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publihsed: Delhi: Permanent Black, c2007.
Author : Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812582
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia written by Shinji Yamashita and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Author : Patricia Uberoi
Publisher : Seagull Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Anthropology in the East written by Patricia Uberoi and published by Seagull Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publihsed: Delhi: Permanent Black, c2007.
Author : Soraya Altorki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118475615
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East written by Soraya Altorki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Offers critical perspectives on the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical goals of anthropology in the Middle East Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation in the Middle Eastern region and its relations with other areas of the world Features contributions by top experts in various Middle East anthropological specialties Features in-depth coverage of issues drawn from religion, the arts, language, politics, political economy, the law, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization
Author : Sherine Hafez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007615
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa written by Sherine Hafez and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
Author : Roxana Waterson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290601X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Living House written by Roxana Waterson and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples. The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, it reveals a much wider field of inquiry--covering all of the Austronesian peoples and cultures extending as far afield as Madagascar, Japan and the Pacific islands to New Zealand and Hawaii. As it probes the centrally significant role of houses within South-East Asian social systems, The Living House reveals new insights into the kinship systems, gender symbolism and cosmological principles of the peoples who build them, ultimately uncovering fundamental themes concerning the concepts of life force and life processes inherent in all of these cultures. A vivid picture is produced of how people shape buildings and buildings shape people--how rules about layout and spatial usage impact social relationships. The book concludes with a consideration of present-day changes affecting the fates of indigenous cultures and architectures throughout the region. This book will be of tremendous interest to architects and historians, and anyone interested in the indigenous art and cultures of South-East Asia.
Author : Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845457951
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology written by Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During recent years, attempts have been made to move beyond the Eurocentric perspective that characterized the social sciences, especially anthropology, for over 150 years. A debate on the “anthropology of anthropology” was needed, one that would consider other forms of knowledge, modalities of writing, and political and intellectual practices. This volume undertakes that challenge: it is the result of discussions held at the first organized encounter between Iranian, American, and European anthropologists since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It is considered an important first step in overcoming the dichotomy between “peripheral anthropologies” versus “central anthropologies.” The contributors examine, from a critical perspective, the historical, cultural, and political field in which anthropological research emerged in Iran at the beginning of the twentieth century and in which it continues to develop today.
Author : Lara Deeb
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804781237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Anthropology's Politics written by Lara Deeb and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.S. military interests? This book is the first academic study to shed critical light on the political and economic pressures that shape how U.S. scholars research and teach about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U.S. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers—from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public. They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed "liberal" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropology's Politics offers a complex portrait of how academic politics ultimately hinders the education of U.S. students and potentially limits the public's access to critical knowledge about the Middle East.
Author : Judith Scheele
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253043786
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology written by Judith Scheele and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought.” —Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region’s political, ethical, and intellectual concerns. The contributors are students of Paul Dresch, an anthropologist known for his incisive work on Yemeni tribalism and customary law. As they expand upon his ideas and insights, these essays ask questions that have long preoccupied anthropologists, such as how do place, point of view, and style combine to create viable bodies of knowledge; how is scholarship shaped by the historical context in which it is located; and why have duration and form become so problematic in the study of Middle Eastern societies? Special attention is given to understanding local terms, contested knowledge claims, what remains unseen and unsaid in social life, and to cultural patterns and practices that persist over long stretches of time, seeming to predate and outlast events. Ranging from Morocco to India, these essays offer critical but sensitive approaches to cultural difference and the distinctiveness of the anthropological project in the Middle East.
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ISBN 13 : 9788178243009
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Arthropology In The East Founders Of Indian Socio,Ogy And Anthropology, 1/e written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000143120
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia written by Victor King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.
Author : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125023357
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of North-East India written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to cater to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Anthropology and Sociology. It takes stock of the work done in the Anthropology of North-East India, and deals in four sections with various aspects of this question. Section I focuses on prehistoric Anthropology, section II looks at the colonial context and its effect on policy and perceptions about the North-East. Section III, on Biological Anthropology and section IV on Social Anthropology.
Author : Virginia R. Dominguez
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333615
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book America Observed written by Virginia R. Dominguez and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here offer a critique of such an absence, exploring its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. This volume contains an introduction written by the editors and fieldwork-based essays written by Helena Wulff, Jasmin Habib, Limor Darash, Ulf Hannerz, and Moshe Shokeid, and reflections on the broad issue written by Geoffrey White, Keiko Ikeda, and Jane Desmond. Suitable for introductory and mid-level anthropology courses, America Observed will also be useful for American Studies courses both in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Author : Echi Christina Gabbert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393782
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Lands of the Future written by Echi Christina Gabbert and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.
Author : Muneera Salem-Murdock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429713614
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Anthropology And Development In North Africa And The Middle East written by Muneera Salem-Murdock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. It demonstrates that anthropology and social sciences have a good deal to contribute to the understanding of domestic economies.
Author : Peter Jordan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759102774
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Material Culture and Sacred Landscape written by Peter Jordan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
Author : Jeanne Shea
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207894
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Beyond Filial Piety written by Jeanne Shea and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior’s paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Themes include traditional ideals versus contemporary realities, the role of the state, patterns of familial and non-familial care, social stratification, and intersections of caregiving and death. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
