"Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to think creatively about today's culture and society. Authors Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help readers reflect on the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies. Updates to the Thirteenth Edition include a new chapter on race and ethnicity; emphasis on areas such as inequality, power, gender, race, and history; discussions of issues around medical care and public health; and new features that reflect changes in world culture." --
"Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the anthropological perspective for the first time. The book offers a sustained focus on language, food, and sustainability in an inclusive format that is sensitive to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Integrating personal stories from her own fieldwork, Laura Tubelle de González brings her passion for transformative learning to students in a way that is both timely and thought-provoking. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent developments in the field. It includes further discussion of globalization; an expanded focus on Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada; revised discussion of sexuality and gender identities across the globe; a brief introduction to the anthropology of science; and updated box features and additional discussion questions that focus on applying concepts. Beautifully illustrated with over sixty full-color images, including comics and maps, Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology brings concepts to life in a way that resonates with student readers. The second edition is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources. For more information, go to lensofculturalanthropology.com."--
List of figure and table Introduction 1 Rupture of circling 2 From cultural transformation to social transformation3 Escape from separation technology 4 Family, education, and separation technology 5 Conception of matter in the post-cultural consciousness era 6 Pristine condition, the modern world, and the era after cultural consciousness 7 Disaster, art works, and irony 8 Enlightenment, order, and development syndromeIndex.
List of tables1 ⁰́₋Demolition⁰́₊ of Beijing: Memory and forgetting2 Individual Consciousness, Problem Awareness, and Native Anthropology3 Ethnography of Places and Ethnography of Clues4 Chinese Consciousness and the Three Worlds of Anthropological Research5 Why Is Chinese Anthropology Far Away from Rivers? 6 Towards a Chinese Phase of Anthropology 7 From Civilization-Barbarism Distinction to Harmonious CommunicationPostscript Index
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and boxes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why Urban Anthropology? -- Situating Urban Anthropology -- Historical Developments -- Urban Anthropology's Predecessors -- Early Urban Anthropology -- Late Twentieth-Century 'Turns' -- Anthropologists and the Contemporary City -- Doing Urban Anthropology -- Not Your Usual Field? -- Urban Methods -- Studying Up and Studying Through -- Mobile Methods and Mental Mapping -- Structure of the Book -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- References -- Part I At Home in the City? -- Chapter 2 Urban Places -- Place-making, Place Attachment and the Politics of Belonging -- Discursive Forms of Place-Making -- Sensory and Affective Forms of Place-Making -- Sacred Place-Making -- Buildings -- Architecture -- Domestic Space -- Neighborhoods -- Low-income and Marginalized Settlements -- Segregation and Displacement -- Transnational Urban Places -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 3 Urban Mobilities -- Mobility and Identities -- Walking the City -- Urban Automobility -- Mobility and Inequality -- Disability -- Traffic -- The Cultural Politics of Mobility -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 4 Social Life in Public Space -- Contextualizing Public Space -- Public Social Life in Context -- Intersectional Positioning -- Everyday Spatial Regimes -- The Micropolitics of Social Life in Public -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Part II Crafting Urban Lives and Lifestyles -- Chapter 5 Urban Economies -- From National Development to Neoliberal Restructuring -- Urban Industries, Labor and Class Formation -- Mining Towns -- Post-industrial Landscapes.
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism; the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time. This is an open access book.
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism; the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time. .
A Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of leisure from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:Volume 1: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity (500BC-500AD)Volume 2: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Medieval Age (500-1450)Volume 3: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Renaissance (1450-1650)Volume 4: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)Volume 5: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)Volume 6: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age (1920-2000+)Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: the idea of leisure; the performing arts and their audiences; the cerebral arts and their publics; sports and games; holydays, holidays and tourism; the world of conviviality; the world of goods; the world of nature and representations of leisure, enabling readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.The complete 6-volume set comprises c.1,632 pages, 240 illustrations.Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Leisure is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see bloomsburyculturalhistory.com)
"This book presents an integrative perspective on home or Heimat showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live. This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on what home is and can be from different viewpoints. The chapters invite the reader to face challenging questions of what we learn about Heimat, when it is taken from us, threatened, left on purpose or when we set out on the journey to find one. The chapters are written by psychologists throughout, but are expanded in perspective by comments from the groups of people featured in the chapters, who are thus given their own voice. The book ends with a suggestion how all the different perspectives can be unified in the framework of general model of cultural psychology. "All in all-the reader of this volume gains an access to the most intricate phenomenon of human ways of being-that of home. Impossible to define in terms of the scientific lore of psychology, intuitively understandable in everyday life, and basis for deep desires if the feeling of home is lost." This book will be rewarding reading for professionals and students from cultural psychology, cultural and psychological anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines, asking the question of what home is and how individuals can be supported in finding it"--