Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discusses about the anthropology's contributions to modern thought, and examines specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture.

45 Years with Shamans Ayahuasqueros and Ethnobotanists.

This is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions.

Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, this work shines a light on South Asian historiography and on caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood.

The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable.

Explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. This title investigates changing ideas about cultural inscription on the human body.

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Disruptions, Modernisms, and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union.

Introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives. This book suggests practical ways to regain our natural well-being, for our children and ourselves.

Provides an introduction to core topics in the four subfields of general anthropology - physical anthropology, archeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology - as well as contemporary changes in the field. This book is suitable for general anthropology courses that use readings or ethnographies along with a main text.

Neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. This title argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parties or international institutions, but from the global networks of resistance to neoliberal economics, known collectively as the Alter-globalisation movement.

Cultural Mobility offers, from Stephen Greenblatt and colleagues, a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

'Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East'. Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopian-Sudan Borderlands.

Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space.

Explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. This work challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance.

An introduction to social and cultural anthropology, ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north. The text focuses on topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems. The book aims to bridge an often percieved gap between classic and contemporary anthropology.

Tells the story of an early 20th-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect embryos for scientific study. This work explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's career.

Presents the history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of Chinese medicine. This title relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors.

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