Anthropology: Books & eBooks

This introductory textbook helps readers explore and understand the role of culture in human experience from a Christian perspective.

This volume surveys the history of feminist anthropology, a field that has emerged at the forefront of efforts to make anthropology more responsive to the concerns of disempowered people around the globe.

Lancy introduces the reader to societies where children are viewed as unwanted "changelings" or as desired but commoditized "chattels". This text provides a rich, original portrait of children in past and contemporary cultures.

This introductory text combines discussion of the origin and development of ideas and debates within the anthropology of religion with a look at where the subject is going today.

This text examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late 19th and early 20th. He investigates the role ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation while African Americans did not.

In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.

Mark Groover offers both case studies and an overview of current trends in farmstead archaeology in this exciting work.

Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, this text explores the intimate association of agency and religion.

Written primarily by Latin American scholars, this book describes relations between indigenous peoples and archaeology in the frame of national histories.

What is archaeology, and why should we do it? Tom King answers the basic question of every introductory student from the unique perspective of one who actively uses archaeology for cultural resource management.

As archaeologists have begun to investigate slavery in more diverse settings, the need for a broader interpretive framework is clear. This collection of essays develops an interregional and cross-temporal framework for the interpretation of slavery.

‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In this book, contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present.

Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, Berger examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.

Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, this handbook is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. This is the ideal resource for all students of undergraduates in sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power.

Comprehensive and engaging, Introduction to Forensic Anthropology uses thoughtful pedagogy to lead students step-by-step through the most current and detailed forensic anthropology material available today.

This important text contains the first collection of forensic anthropology case studies to be published from Europe. It highlights recent developments in the discipline and allows comparisons between work done in various European countries and the Americas. The book not only highlights the history and development of forensic anthropology in Europe but the case studies also cover a range of issues dealt with by forensic anthropologists from around the world.

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists are redefining these crucial concepts. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual.