Anthropology - Soc Sci

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology ..

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology ..

This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework, advancing research in this multifaceted area and offering an ideal supplemental text...

This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism...

This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism...

The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis...

This examines the research activities covered by social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting visual and aural data as well as possible applications of knowledge-based models...

Ideal for applied researchers, students, training programs, and technical assistance projects in any field, this comprehensive guide to applied ethnography distills the expertise of the distinguished anthropologist and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career...

This book shows how leading applied anthropologists use complex and fluid new concepts of culture and community—such as globalization, translocality, ethnoscape—to solve pressing human problems in public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigra..

Using a broad comparitive approach this volume employs case studies from across the Americas to address the importance of the community in understanding ancient societies...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Archeology in Cultural Systems..