Forensic Anthropology Training Manual serves as a practical reference tool and a framework for training in forensic anthropology.The first chapter inf ...
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologi ...
Patrick Frierson draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical ex ...
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeo ...
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the ...
GREAT JOBS SERIES ANSWERS THE QUESTION ''WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN . . Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect fo ...
This handbook of anthropology methods defines and describes anthropological fieldwork in practice. The authors examine historical methods, surveys, li ...
Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin c ...
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christ ...
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which me ...
Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibit ...
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthrop ...
Written by an experienced teacher, this basic introduction to the anthropology of religion explores key contemporary issues such as: definitions, theo ...
Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradit ...
Islam Obscured analyzes four seminal anthropology texts on Muslims that have been read widely outside the discipline. Two are by distinguished anthrop ...
Muslims currently struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws (including those derived from Islam, as well as contemporary ...
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion!The roots of contemporary Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia lie ...
This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conformin ...
