Social Anthropology

Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Richard Feinberg's updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertook fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. He explores dominant cultural features, including language, kinship, marriage, politics, and religion topics that align with subject matter covered in introductory anthropology courses.

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author's family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries.

It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This audiobook explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call "message". Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual's positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate.

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.

Nothing that God created is the source of our human temptation. To the contrary! The human body is the crown of God's creation—consummated by his declaration that it was good. That God's people are unable to view the body without sinning is not an indictment of the body itself, but of the immaturity of the post-modern evangelical mind.

Nützliche Mitbewohnerinnen, Ekelobjekte oder verblüffende Wesen? An Spinnen scheiden sich die Geister. Von manchen bewundert für ihre kunstvollen Netze und das Archaische ihrer Erscheinung, von anderen gefürchtet. Aber warum ist das so? Dieses Buch dringt tief in das Beziehungsgeflecht von Spinnen und Menschen vor. Es zeigt den Einfluss der Spinnen auf unsere Sprache, Wissen, Träume und Geschichte. Warum verglich man Napoleon mit einer Spinne? Wie prägte die christliche Symbolik die Abneigung gegenüber Spinnen? Und wieso wurden gleich drei Weltraummissionen von Spinnen begleitet?

Документально-приключенческий роман о радикальных политических экспериментах пиратов на Мадагаскаре XVII–XVIII веков. Цель романа "Пиратское Просвещение" — вернуть фокус антропологии и этнографии в их первоначальное русло, а именно — наблюдение за тем, как развивается культура и общество. Дэвид Гребер критикует европоцентричный подход, по которому "дикие народы" могут стать цивилизованными лишь под пристальным европейским надзором. На самом деле истоки либеральных и демократических идей лежат далеко за пределами "западной цивилизации".

KI wird unseren Arbeitsmarkt verändern, doch das ist nicht das Problem: Unser Sozialleben macht uns zum Menschen. Doch wenn unser bester Freund eine KI ist – haben wir dann noch eins? Karsten Brensing wirft einen Blick auf den Einzug von KI in die Mitte unserer Gesellschaft. Die Veränderungen werden vor allem auch unser Sozialleben betreffen. Tierisch glücklich sein in einer komplexen Welt. Trotz seiner mentalen Leistungsfähigkeit und des technischen Fortschritts ist der Mensch im Laufe der Evolution nicht gleichsam zufriedener geworden.

Das biologische Fundament ist der erste Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er behandelt folgende Themen: Einzeller als Hirnsonden (Vom Spürsinn der Mikroben - Woran stirbt ein Paralytiker?) / Biologische Vorentscheidungen (Ein Akt der Abgrenzung - So wenig Außenwelt wie möglich - Die Anziehungskraft des Bekömmlichen) / Paläontologie der Seele (Eine aufschlussreiche Zusammensetzung - Lebende Fossilien) / Bewusstlose Geborgenheit (Ein neues Bauprinzip und seine Folgen - Die Erfindung der Nervenleitung - Vollkommenheit im Kleinen) / Vorzeichen des Kommenden (Nervennetze speichern Programme - Abbilder der Außenwelt).

Programme für die Außenwelt II ist der dritte Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er beinhaltet folgende Themen: Die Welt steckt im Gehirn (Das Abbild geht dem Original voraus - Ein Wiesel im Gehirn des Hahns - Archaische Erinnerungen - Ein Gedankenexperiment) / Die Welt vom Zwischenhirn aus betrachtet (Welt und Wirklichkeit - Provozierende Experimente - Rekonstruktion einer archaischen Welt - Gesetze der Urzeit) / Aufbruch (Die Grenzen der Geborgenheit - Gegensätze, die sich nicht ausschließen - Die Nachfolgeprägung als Schlüsselphänomen).

Programme für die Außenwelt I ist der zweite Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er beinhaltet folgende Themen: Die Karriere eines Fehlers (Bussarde und Küken - Auch ein Mangel hat zwei Seiten - Strategie der Evolution) / Wettlauf der Sinne (Pflanzen haben keine Augen - Wer nicht hören kann, muss fühlen - Aus dem Objekt wird ein Subjekt) / Vom Lichtempfänger zum Sehorgan ( Euglena macht den Anfang - Die Entstehungsgeschichte des Auges) / Augen, die nicht sehen (Astronauten sehen mehr - Was denn, wenn kein Bild?

When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate", he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty.

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Part memoir, part popular science, and part social commentary, Bottled Up probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of Barston’s own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, Barston offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast. Impassioned, well-reasoned, and thoroughly researched, Bottled Up asks us to think with more nuance and compassion about whether breastfeeding should remain the holy grail of good parenthood.

Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of India and the Australian dingo, this fascinating book explores the history of the complex relationships between humans and their domestic animals.

İnsanın Türeyişi", evrim teorisinin öncüsü Charles Darwin'in en çığır açan eserlerinden biridir. Bu kitapta, Darwin insanın doğal seçilim yoluyla nasıl evrildiğine dair derinlemesine bir inceleme sunar.

Esta obra clássica, foi revisitada por seu autor, José de Souza Martins, que incorporou novos trechos e atualizou a discussão sobre as questões tratadas. O cativeiro da terra é a matriz estrutural e histórica da sociedade que somos hoje. Ele condenou a nossa modernidade e a nossa entrada no mundo capitalista a uma modalidade de coerção do trabalho. Aí encontramos a explicação de nossa lentidão histórica e a postergação da ascensão social dos condenados à servidão.

Every get the feeling that your company culture is completely insane? That your organisation is inherently dysfunctional and seems to emphasize pointless drama over getting work done? The good news is that you’re right: Your company’s culture is screwed up. The bad news is that most everyone else’s company culture is throwing sparks too. Culture is the product of the people that you work with, and people are...really quite interesting, given all the ways that well-meaning people can screw things up.

Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them. It presents, in the first person, the grounded and practical experiences of twins as they engage, both individually and together, the "who am I" and "who are we" questions of life. Here, the twins themselves are the stars.

Where fresh water appears to be abundant and generally accessible, chronic pollution may be relatively ignored as a public issue. Yet there are those whose lives, livelihoods, and traditions are touched directly by the destructive albeit essential relationship between humans and water.