Essentials Of Cultural Anthropology A Toolkit For A Global Age

Author : Kenneth J Guest
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393265005
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Anthropology A Toolkit for a Global Age written by Kenneth J Guest and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of Ken Guest's Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age covers the concepts that drive cultural anthropology by showing that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture and the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to living in a globalizing world.

Author : Kenneth J Guest
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393624617
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age written by Kenneth J Guest and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful new textbook in a generation, Ken Guest’s text shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture. Students learn that the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to their life in our globalized world. The NEW InQuizitive course helps students focus their reading, master the basics, and come to class prepared.

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393929574
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the essential concepts that drive cultural anthropology today, Ken Guest’s Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture and that the tools of cultural anthropology are essential to living in a global society. A “toolkit” approach encourages students to pay attention to big questions raised by anthropologists, offers study tools to remind readers what concepts are important, and shows them why it all matters in the real world.

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393667929
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the book's signature "toolkit" approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability to the accompanying videos and interactive learning tools, all aspects of Ken Guest's Cultural Anthropology work together to inspire students to use the tools of anthropology to see the world in a new way and to come to class prepared to have richer, more meaningful discussions about the big issues of our time. Are there more than two genders? How do white people experience race? What defines a family? Is there such a thing as a "natural" disaster? What causes some people to be wealthy while others live in poverty?"--

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731538
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God in Chinatown written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China’s southeastern coast, to New York’s Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Christianity. This ethnographic study examines the central role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown’s highly stratified ethnic enclave, as well as the transnational networks established between religious communities in New York and China. The author’s knowledge of Chinese coupled with his extensive fieldwork in both China and New York enable him to illuminate how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the United States, as well as how these new American institutions influence religious and social relations in the religious revival sweeping southeastern China. God in Chinatown is the first study to bring to light religion's significant role in the Fuzhounese immigrants’ dramatic transformation of the face of New York’s Chinatown.

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393631272
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Second Edition) written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393616903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your students apply their anthropological toolkit to the real world.

Author : Rebecca Popenoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135140855
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeding Desire written by Rebecca Popenoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated eighty per cent of the world's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.

Author : Kenneth J. Guest
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9781324040583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Cultural Anthropology written by Kenneth J. Guest and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give students the tools to engage with the biggest issues of our time

Author : Michael V. Angrosino
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478607742
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Cultural Anthropology written by Michael V. Angrosino and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a practical bridge between the classroom and the field, this down-to-earth, hands-on collection offers an impressive range of insightful, focused vignettes about cultural research that will jumpstart students thinking about the practice of anthropology. Reflecting the contributions of nearly two dozen practicing social scientists, each clearly written chapter of Doing Cultural Anthropology covers the fundamentals of a different data-collection technique. Following an overview of a particular ethnographic method, each author describes his or her own research project and shows how that technique is utilized. Learning-by-doing remains the thrust of the latest edition, which includes two new chapters plus significant revisions to five of the original contributions. Each chapter ends with suggestions for student projects that promote hands-on exposure to what ethnographers actually do. Readers are given just enough information to appreciate the technique and to practice it for themselves.