Tag: Anthropology

Free Download Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTNW9E0 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 3m | 330 MB
Lecturer: Barbara J. King
Who are we? It’s a question humankind has been asking about itself for a long time.

Free Download The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032256370 | 449 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health.

Free Download Hans Belting, "An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body"
English | ISBN: 0691160961 | 2014 | 216 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the body

Free Download Gerald Mars, "Becoming an Anthropologist: A Memoir and a Guide to Anthropology"
English | ISBN: 1443876925 | 2015 | 235 pages | PDF | 1284 KB
Mars’ graphic and often vivid narrative can be read simply as the anecdotal memoirs of an anthropologist. The experiences he recounts are sometimes hilarious, touch occasionally on the dangerous, and are always sensitively and expertly explored. But for those who want to know more, the book’s expansive footnotes and references to key sources also offer a stimulating introduction to social anthropology, its theories and its methods. Mars begins by describing his childhood life in a tightly structured working class community during World War Two. He then contrasts this with an account of the hidden underlife of an entrepreneurial, crime-prone seaside resort, Blackpool, where he worked as a spieler (barker). Two years experience of National Service provides an account of the social organisation of the RAF, followed by discussion of aspects of the organisation of Cambridge University. What follows then is a lifetime spent living and working in different cultures around the world. The results are continual insights gained by comparison and contrasts that illuminate aspects not only of other cultures, but, also, of our own.

Free Download Sian Lazar, "How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour "
English | ISBN: 0745347517 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1443 KB
A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labour struggles and workers’ political agency

Free Download Martin Porr, "One World Anthropology and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 0367755130 | 2023 | 292 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 33 MB
This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships between human beings, organisms, and their environment, Ingold has become one of the most influential, innovative, and prolific writers in anthropology in recent decades. His work transcends established academic and disciplinary boundaries and his thinking continues to have a significant impact on numerous areas of research and other intellectual and artistic spheres. The contributions to this book are drawn from several fields, including social anthropology, archaeology, rock art studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies. The chapters critically engage with Ingold’s approaches and ideas in relation to a variety of case studies that include the exploration of Australian rock art, electricity in Pakistan, Spanish farmhouses and sensory dimensions of educational practices. Emphasising the importance of dialogue and debate, there is also a response to the contributions by Tim Ingold himself. The volume will appeal to a wide range of audiences and provide new avenues of theoretically informed anthropological exploration into the many realities and expressions of human life.

Free Download Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax (Studies in Social Analysis) by Nicolette Makovicky, Robin Smith
English | August 11, 2023 | ISBN: 1805390422 | 163 pages | PDF | 2.00 Mb
Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. Their ethnographically grounded accounts show how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state, taking various forms, from alternative religious communities to economic collectives.

Free Download Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology (7th Edition) by Robert H. Lavenda, Emily A. Schultz
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190924756 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 473.9 KB
Designed for courses that make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings, this is a concise introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology.

Free Download Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy by E. Turner
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0230339085 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.9 MB
Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group’s pleasure in sharing common experiences; being ‘in the zone’ – as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning.

Free Download Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Alma Gottlieb, Thomas Buckley
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0520063503 | 275 Pages | PDF | 23.3 MB
Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs.