Uncommon Anthropologist

Author : Nancy Mattina
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165650
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Anthropologist written by Nancy Mattina and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least-appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as well as academic politics and the gender realities of her age. This biography offers the first full account of Reichard’s life, her milieu, and, most important, her work—establishing, once and for all, her lasting significance in the history of anthropology. In her thirty-two years as the founder and head of Barnard College’s groundbreaking anthropology department, Reichard taught that Native languages, written or unwritten, sacred or profane, offered Euro-Americans the least distorted views onto the inner life of North America’s first peoples. This unique approach put her at odds with anthropologists such as Edward Sapir, leader of the structuralist movement in American linguistics. Similarly, Reichard’s focus on Native psychology as revealed to her by Native artists and storytellers produced a dramatically different style of ethnography from that of Margaret Mead, who relied on western psychological archetypes to “crack” alien cultural codes, often at a distance. Despite intense pressure from her peers to conform to their theories, Reichard held firm to her humanitarian principles and methods; the result, as Nancy Mattina makes clear, was pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language—amplified by an exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring. Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence, this book provides an intimate picture of her small-town upbringing, the professional challenges she faced in male-centered institutions, and her quietly revolutionary contributions to anthropology. Gladys Reichard emerges as she lived and worked—a far-sighted, self-reliant humanist sustained in turbulent times by the generous, egalitarian spirit that called her yearly to the far corners of the American West.

Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181359
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Ground written by Veronica Strang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed. This highly topical study also examines the long-term conflicts over land in Australia, which have brought to the surface each group's environmental values. The author considers how these values are acquired, and the universal and cultural factors that lead to their development. Major emphasis is put on the cultural forms that create and express environmental values for the Aborigines and the white pastoralists, such as: - historical background - land use and economic modes - socio-spatial organization - language, knowledge and methods of socialization - oral and visual representation - cosmological beliefs and systems of law This book is very accessible and should be widely used on anthropology, environmental studies and geography courses.]

Author : Simone Dennis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000798593
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Anthropology written by Simone Dennis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is written by well-established anthropology professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches are, and how these are applied in real-world settings. It provides a thorough introduction to key methods, theories and the disciplinary value of contemporary anthropology. This book deliberately steps beyond the standard textbook format. Undergraduate students reveal the processes by which they came to understand and apply anthropological knowledge using everyday experiences and common life events as examples, while also showcasing the research that student authors produced as a result of understanding and operationalising those processes. This fresh take showcases what can be done with anthropological knowledge, not what you can do with anthropology when you’ve achieved the rank of professor. This book is accompanied by practical exercises, and podcasts that relate to each of the chapters. Podcasts extend beyond the textbook as live resources, with episodes on a regular basis. This is an accessible, lively, active text that prepares students to outbound disciplinary knowledge. This unique and engaging textbook will be core reading for undergraduate anthropology students, as well as a source of teaching inspiration for lecturers of undergraduate anthropology units. It would also be a useful text for undergraduate students conducting ethnographic research.

Author : Arnd Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189902
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Art and Anthropology written by Arnd Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.

Author : British Columbia Provincial Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report - Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology written by British Columbia Provincial Museum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Columbia Provincial Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology written by British Columbia Provincial Museum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB
Publisher : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book CUET-UG Anthropology [303] Question Bank Book 2500+MCQ Unit Wise with Explanation As Per Updated Syllabus written by DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB and published by DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB . This book was released on 2024-01-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CUET-UG Anthropology Question Bank 2500+ Chapter wise question With Explanations As per Updated Syllabus [ cover all 5 Units] The Units are – Unit-1 : Physical Anthropology Unit-2: Prehistoric Archaeology Unit-3: Material culture andeconomic Anthropology Unit-4: Social Anthropology and Ethnography Unit-5: Ecology

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Columbia Provincial Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural HIstory and Anthropology written by British Columbia Provincial Museum and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Gallatin Anderson
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478607726
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 30 Years written by Barbara Gallatin Anderson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten cultures! Barbara Gallatin Anderson brings to life a range of cultures from the tribal Hmong to a United States military base. With humor and a precision born of hands-on familiarity with the regions involved, she draws the reader into startlingly real identification with other peoples worlds: France, Denmark, Thailand, India, Morocco, Japan, Corsica, China, Russia, and the United States. Every chapter gives us insight into the ways we identify with basic anthropological themes, the challenges of applied fieldwork, and the impact of change. To a surprising extent the reader becomes the anthropologistwith all the highs and lows that are part of life as a cultural anthropologist.