Tag: Anthropology

Free Download Serena Nanda, "Cultural Anthropology Ed 13"
English | ISBN: 1071858238 | 2023 | 560 pages | PDF | 79 MB
Cultural Anthropology, Thirteenth Edition integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts you to think creatively about today’s culture and society. Authors Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help you reflect on the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies.

Free Download C. Nadia Seremetakis, "An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1443895822 | 2017 | 269 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C2W11252 | Format: MP3 / 8 hours and 26 minutes | 232 Mb
From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of "religion" and the "supernatural." The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights.
In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes listeners around the world. In the process, Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane, all-too-human spheres of "economics" and "politics" emerge as people negotiate with, and ultimately usurp, the powers of the gods.
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.

Free Download Anthropology for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Cameron M. Smith, Christopher Douyard, Tantor Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B097YXTXMR | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 14 hours and 44 minutes | 803 Mb
Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren’t all of us exactly the same? And how can knowing the reasons behind our differences – as well as our similarities – teach us useful lessons for the future? The updated edition of Anthropology for Dummies gives you a panoramic view of the fascinating fieldwork and theory that seeks to answer these questions – and helps you view the human world through impartial, anthropological eyes.
Anthropology for Dummies explores the four main subdivisions of the discipline, from the adventurous Indiana Jones territory of archaeology and the hands-on biological insights provided by our physical nature to the studious book-cracking brainwork of cultural and linguistic investigation.
Explore the history of anthropology and apply its methods.Get a deep, scientific take on contemporary debates such as identity.Excavate the human past through new fossil discoveries.Peer into humanity’s future in space.

Free Download Victor de Munck, "The anthropology of power, agency, and morality: The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey"
English | ISBN: 1526158256 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The works of F. G. Bailey (1924-2020) provide a seminal template for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey’s ability to conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of individual interactions to the macro-context of culture. Bailey’s core concerns – the tension between individual and collective interests, the will to power, and the dialectics of social forces which foster both collective solidarity as well as divisiveness and discontent – are themes of universal interest; the beauty of his work lies in his analyses of how these play out in local arenas between real people. His models provide nuanced, yet explicit road maps to analysing the different leadership styles of everyday people and contemporary leaders.

Free Download H. Sidky, "Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World: A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense"
English | ISBN: 179360651X | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 482 KB
At the end of 2019, Americans were living in an era of post-truth characterized by fake news, weaponized lies, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and irrationalism. While many complex interconnected factors were at work, this post-truth era was partly the culmination of a cadre of anthropologists and other academics in American universities and colleges during the 1980’s and 1990’s. In Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World, H. Sidky examines how their untoward dalliance with problematic and dangerous ideas by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard informed and empowered a forceful assault on science and truth in the following decades by corporate organizations, politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists.

Free Download Nicolene Joubert, "Psychology and Psychotherapy in the Perspective of Christian Anthropology"
English | ISBN: 1527516571 | 2018 | 327 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The view of human nature generally forms part of the assumptions that undergird psychological theories and psychotherapeutic approaches. In this book, Christian anthropology is articulated as a foundation for the theories, approaches and techniques applied in practice by its contributors. Various essays from European-based practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counselling are included here. These authors draw scientific knowledge from the fields of psychology and psychotherapy, focusing on intra-psychic aspects of human functioning, such as emotions, drives and cognitions as well as interpersonal and eco-systemic functioning. In addition to this, the authors consider spirituality as an intrinsic part of humanity, through which persons seek meaning and transcendence, that influences physical and mental health. Spiritual insight is gained from the field of theology with specific reference to the Christian faith tradition. As a wide range of topics, contexts, cultural, and ecumenical backgrounds are covered in this book, practitioners in mental health care and counselling will benefit from the knowledge, ideas and practical experience shared here.

Free Download Tendayi Sithole Author of Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness, "Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania "
English | ISBN: 1538166119 | 2022 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 395 KB + 15 MB
Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology is the first book to provide an extensive treatment of More’s Africana existential thought. This book locates him, as it is clear in his body of work, in the Azanian (Black and Indigenous) existential tradition. As a philosopher, he is engaged from the perspective of black radical thought. From this intervention, it is clear that his philosophical project originates and is expressed from the existential condition of being-black-in-an-antiblack-world. It is from the lived experience and the fact of being black that More is meditated upon and this book, which is the extension of his work, brings to the forth the ways of thinking, knowing, and doing that that illuminate his philosophical project.

Free Download 30-Second Anthropology: The 50 most important ideas in the study of being human, each explained in half a minute (30 Second) by Simon Underdown
English | March 1st, 2018 | ISBN: 1782409696 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 23.51 MB
Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet? These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on earth. Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social relations and practices. If you only have 30 seconds, that is enough time – by reading this book – to meet the ancestors and master the basic ideas, personalities, controversies and future directions of the study of humankind.

Free Download Chad T. Morris, "The Applied Anthropology of Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and Identity"
English | ISBN: 1498512631 | 2015 | 254 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production, distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. The Applied Anthropology of Obesity:Prevention, Intervention, and Identity advances understanding of the many cultural factors underlying increased global obesity prevalence. This collection of chapters showcase the value of anthropology’s holistic approach to human interaction by exploring how human identity associated with obesity/overweight is affected by cultural norms, policy decisions, and perceptions of cultural change. They also demonstrate best practices for the application of anthropological skillsets to develop culturally-appropriate nutritional behavior change across multiple levels of analysis, from local programming to policy decisions at local and national levels.