by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2012. Edited by Catherine M. Tucker
This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world.
by operations | Feb 20, 2019 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2019. Edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger
The contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability.
by operations | Jun 7, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2018. Edited by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy
This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, & Brett Williams
Focusing on the United States, this volumes analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial state are related, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
1972. Edited by Alfonso Ortiz
This volume, the result of an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, takes a fresh look at Pueblo Indian culture, with chapters on everything from language to religion, prehistory, ecology, and from literature to music.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Thomas W. Killion
In 1989–90, Congress enacted two laws, the National Museum of the American Indian Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. What effects have these laws had on anthropological practice, theory, and education in the United States?
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology
1995. Edited by Lawrence Rosen
The authors argue that although intentionality might appear to be a wholly abstract phenomenon, it is deeply entwined with the nature and distribution of power, the portrayal of events, the assessment of personhood, the interplay of trust and deception, and the assessment of moral and legal responsibility.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, Southwest
1999. Edited by Barbara J. King
In this volume ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and suggesting how the primatological perspective can be used to fashion more rigorous theories of language origins and evolution.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology
1977. Edited by Richard E. W. Adams
The contributors to this book scrutinize the data, survey external influences on the early Maya, and consider economics, ecology, demography, and warfare – as well as social and ideological factors – in explaining the transformation of Maya culture from a village-oriented society to one centered on elite classes living in large civic centers with monumental architecture.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2011. Edited by Janis H. Jenkins
An anthropological study that examines both human suffering and its biological realities, Pharmaceutical Self focuses on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the expanding distribution of psychopharmacological drugs.