Anthropology - Soc Sci

An Anthropological Defense of God..

Originally published: Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1959...

Drawing on their experiences in the field from a Mormon Theme Park in Hawaii, through carnival time on Montserrat to the exclusive domain of the Market, contributors explore indirect communication from an anthropological perspective...

Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires per..

This text explains how anthropology ia a window through which tourism dynamics may be properly analysed and evaluated...

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century — a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of ‘liquid modernity’ — or of fully-fledged global neoliber..

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage. Richly illustrated and theoretically sophisticated, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologi..

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage. Richly illustrated and theoretically sophisticated, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologi..

This book takes as its starting point the relationship between place and human/animal interaction. It brings together the work of leading scholars in human/animal studies, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a distinct focus on place, physical space and biocultural..

As the basic questions of social structure were elucidated there came a quickening of interest among social anthropologists in the study of religion...

Using the recent multi-year revision of the American Anthropology Association’s code of ethics as a platform, this volume suggests a set of principles and practices, based on ethical dilemmas common in the social sciences...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...