- After the Fact
- Clifford Geertz
- In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Clifford Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Anatomy of Disgust
- William Ian Miller
- William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it both horrifies us and brings order and meaning to our lives. Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Approaching Australia
- Harold Bolitho, Editor
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Editor
- These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer several approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and future. The authors hail from different disciplines, but what they have in common is their familiarity with the United States and their experience in interpreting their homeland to an American audience. As they discuss poetry and politics, nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization, they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive Australian entity, and the contribution to it of the United States.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
- Don Brothwell
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- The Chosen Primate
- Adam Kuper
- Adam Kuper reframes debates about human origin and reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. Balancing biological and cultural perspectives, Kuper reviews our various beliefs, the history of human culture, genes and intelligence, the nature of the gender differences, and the foundations of human politics.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Culture
- Adam Kuper
- Culture clarifies a crucial chapter in recent intellectual history. Adam Kuper makes the case against cultural determinism and argues that political and economic forces, social institutions, and biological processes must take their place in any complete explanation of why people think and behave as they do.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Evolution of Racism
- Pat Shipman
- Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory into eugenics; the conflict between laboratory research in genetics and fieldwork in physical anthropology and biology; and the continuing controversies over the heritability of intelligence, criminal behavior, and other traits, this book explains both prewar eugenics and postwar taboos on letting the insights of genetics and evolution into the study of humanity.
- Paperback 2002
- Maya Children
- Karen L. Kramer
- Among the Maya of Xculoc, an isolated farming village in the lowland forests of the Yucatán peninsula, children contribute to household production in considerable ways. Thus this village, the subject of anthropologist Kramer's study, affords a remarkable opportunity for understanding the economics of childhood in a pre-modern agricultural setting.
- Hardcover 2005
- Nisa
- Marjorie Shostak
- This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in her own words--earthy, emotional, vivid--to Marjorie Shostak, a Harvard anthropologist who succeeded, with Nisa's collaboration, in breaking through the immense barriers of language and culture, the story is a fascinating view of a remarkable woman.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover
- Pilgrimage
- Simon Coleman
- John Elsner
- This book is a fascinating guide through the vast and varied cultural territory that pilgrimages have covered across the ages. The first book to look at the phenomenon and experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of history, religion, sociology, anthropology, and art history, this sumptuously illustrated volume explores the full richness of sacred travel.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 45, Spring 2004
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 46, Autumn 2004
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 47, Spring 2005
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 48, Autumn 2005
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2005
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 51, Spring 2007
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback
- Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 52, Fall 2007
- Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
- Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.
- Paperback 2008
- Routes
- James Clifford
- When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, James Clifford offers a new view of anthropology. It is, he says, a moving picture of a world that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion--translation--as openings into a complex modernity.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997