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Books & the Arts; May 5, 2020; The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology The Circle Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, and the origins of American anthropology.
Dr. Harris wrote 17 books detailing his observations about the global processes that account for human origins. He taught cultural anthropology at Columbia University and the University of Florida.
We will see that death is an integral part of human life while appreciating the tremendous diversity of cultural attitudes toward death. There are two required books for this course: Erik Mueggler’s ...
The result — which reads in some places like a cultural-anthropology textbook from the 1970s, in others like a mesmerizing thriller — reveals a world in which some people strangle their elders ...
Book: The Fear of the Visual?Photography, Anthropology, and Anxieties of Seeing Author: Sasanka Perera Publisher: Orient BlackSwan Price: Rs 850. Does anthropology suffer from a fear of the visual?
Celibacy, Culture, and Society: Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. University of Wisconsin Press, $24.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-299-17164-3. ... PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR THE BEST NEW BOOKS.
After spending two months in Calicut, India, and the surrounding towns in the state of Kerala, Sara Christensen, a fourth-year University of Toronto student, is hooked on anthropological field ...
Contemporary Irish writing inspires a wealth of critical commentary. Helena Wulff's engaging study, however, is the first one to view it anthropologically. Rhythms of Writing seeks to explain the ...