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The Human Genome Diversity Projectby Amade M'Charek; Nikolas Rose; Paul Rabinow; Patrick Bateson; Paul Billinge; Michel Morange; Martin Richards
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important and controversial programme of research arising from debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book is based on an ethnography of laboratory practice and explores issues around standardization, naturalisation and diversity. more...
A Theory of Raceby Joshua Glasgow
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 35.95Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race , Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options. Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand... more...
Race, Ethnicity and Applied Bioanthropologyby Claire C. Gordon
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 38.95NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods most editions available for course adoption more...
The Anthropology of Globalizationby Ted Lewellen
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 33.95Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. Globalization refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird's-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marginal but essential.||Through multiple examples, selected from the latest ethnographic research from all over the world, Lewellen examines the ways that globalization... more...
Culture and Changeby Larry Naylor
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 131.95Growing dependency, increased contact and interactions, and the development of a participatory world culture have brought the topic of culture change to our attention as never before. Naylor examines the various issues and aspects of change, particularly directed or intended change, as it occurs within multicultural settings. He combines the best information available on the topic of change and provides a comprehensive model for change processes in an effort to supply the reader with the essentials required for understanding culture change and working within its contexts. It is appropriate for courses in anthropology, sociology, education, development studies and health, and will serve equally well for either undergraduate or graduate levels. more...
Globalizationby Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Berg Publishers 2007; US$ 88.95Distinguishing between the cultural, political, economic and ecological aspects of globalization, this book highlights the implications of globalization for people's everyday lives. more...
Human Variationby C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
CRC Press 2010; US$ 99.95Brings together the contributions of 22 scientists working in four continents to identify and address challenges imposed by variability. This book reviews the way we examine and analyze human variation, paying specific attention to genetics, growth and development, and physiology. more...
Zwischen Aneignung und Verfremdungby Heike Behrend; Cora Bender; Iris Därmann; Mamadou Diawara; Britta Duelke; Hans Peter Duerr; James F. Fox; Heidrun Friese; Volker Gottowik; Bärbel Högner; Holger Jebens; Heike Kämpf; Hans G. Kippenberg; Fritz W. Kramer; Matthias Krings; Richard Kuba; Susanne Lanwerd; Brigitte Luchesi; Jean Lydall; Stephanie Maiwald; Klaus E. Müller; Mark Münzel; Shahnaz Nadjmabadi; Editha Platte; Anette Rein; Thomas Reinhardt; Burkhard Schnepel; Cornelia Schnepel; Susanne Schröter; Gereon Sievernich; Bernhard Streck; Ivo Strecker; Josef Franz Thiel; Marin Trenk; Hartmut Zinser; Volker Gottowik; Holger Jebens; Editha Platte
Campus Verlag 2009; US$ 62.18Hauptbeschreibung Der Band lädt ein zu einer Entdeckungsreise auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Aneignung und Verfremdung. Prominente Kulturwissenschaftler wie Fritz Kramer, Hans Peter Duerr und Mark Münzel führen vor Augen, dass das Fremde nur in den Kategorien des Eigenen beschrieben werden kann - Ethnologie ist kulturelle Übersetzung. Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Geschichte Klaus E. Müller Relikte. Überlegungen zum Anachronismus Gereon Sievernich Die Zeit ordnen. Das ptolomäische "Dekret von Canopus" (238 v. Chr.) und das Schaltjahr Iris Därmann Landnahme, Menschennahme. John Locke und der transatlantische Sklavenhandel Mark Münzel Gab es Kannibalismus? Marin Trenk Kulturelle Aneignung und kulturelle Überläufer. Transkulturalisation... more...
Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 2by Michele J. Gelfand; Chi-yue Chiu; Ying-yi Hong
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 84.99With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments have emerged in the relationship of culture to cognitive processes, human development, psychopathology, social behavior, organizational behavior, neuroscience, language, marketing, and other topics. In recognition of this exponential growth, Advances in Culture and Psychology is the first annual series to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research in the growing field of culture and psychology. The Advances in Culture and Psychology series is: * Developing an intellectual home for... more...
Wilhelm Wundt - Völkerpsychologieby Christa M. Schneider
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 32.17Hauptbeschreibung Wie entwickelt sich das Selbstbewusstsein einer Gruppe, eines Volkes, einer Nation oder einer Staatengemeinschaft? Welche unbewussten Prozesse wirken bei der Entwicklung von Sprache, Mythos und Sitte, durch die die Einzelnen miteinander verbunden sind? Diesen kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen geht Wundt in seinen völkerpsychologischen Schriften nach. Sein historisch komplexes Werk, geprägt von geschichtsphilosophischen, positivistischen und liberal-kulturprotestantischen Gedanken, stellte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Herausforderung für die Soziologie, Psychologie, Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft, Ethnologie und Anthropologie dar. In seinem Anliegen, die sich ausdifferenzierenden Wissenszweige in einem umfassenden... more...









