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The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Wadsworth Publishing, 2005
This text provides an introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, which appeals to undergraduates from a wide variety of fields and at a wide variety of levels, from freshmen to seniors. This text comes with access to a companion website designed to make the intersection of linguistics and anthropology accessible and interesting to ...
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Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History
R. Jon McGee, Richard Warms
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007
Pertinent and probably 'fair'.
I bought this book as a textbook for a class of Anthropolocial Theory and Method. Except for the sociobiology section and Darwin, we read the majority of this work in class. I give this collection of original writings five stars because the commentary seems ...
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Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 1985
Anthropological insights are for missionaries!
Missionaries should learn and understand culture of the people to whom they want to preach the gospel. I agree with Hiebert that without all that knowledge their message may be irrelevant and meaningless in cultural enviroment that is different from the cultural ...
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Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, Marvin K. Mayers
Baker Academic, 2003
Great resource for any Christian
This book is one that I would recommend to any Christian who encounters someone from a different culture (hopefully that means all Christians). This book helps the believer to understand how to be more like Christ, who came to our world as a different culture. It ...
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Reflecting on America: Anthropological Views of U.S. Culture
Clare L. Boulanger
Allyn & Bacon, 2007
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A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
Da Capo Press, 2005
Wright is right
The fact Wright attacks popular concepts of progress is enough to merit five stars.
Until 1955, when I was 25, I naively believed progress was inevitable, natural, and simply a part of human nature and society. I attended the Earl Lectures that year. Swiss ...
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Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis
Renato Rosaldo
Beacon Press, 1993
A Great Example of Postmodernism
I had to read this book for an anthropological theories course but it's the kind of book I can always come back to when I think anthropology is getting too full of itself. This book is very easy to read. Rosaldo uses a semi-conversational tone that makes the reader an ...
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Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 2008
A fantastic and important work
Transforming worldviews covers a full range of anthropological ideas and applies them to the concept of worldview. Scholarly in nature, its tone is readable and it applies important and diverse disciplines and concepts to thinking about worldview. This book is a major ...
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Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writings about Dance and Culture
Banff Centre Press, 2000
Contributed by scholars and artists from across North America brought together to think through crucial aspects of dance's significance, twelve papers stage a set of illuminating connections between cultural theory and dancing practices, examining the body in an exhilarating range of performances. The essays interrogate choreography as a ...
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
Pamela Moro, James Myers, ...
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006
Compilation of very educational articles
I had to read this for an Anthropology class (Magic Witchcraft and Religion) and got so much out of it. Not only did my perspectives on some things change but I got a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind religion's role in society.
Some of the articles were ...
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Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking
Alice Beck Kehoe
Waveland Press, 2000
fast shipment
the book arrive in a few days and was in great condition . i would definetley buy from this seller again.
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The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Price
Beacon Press, 1992
Old Wine/New Bottle? Depolarizing African-American Culture
'The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective' is an early 1970s reaction to the `swift' establishment of Afro-American and Black Studies programmes within the U.S. American Universities, in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. Its ...
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Performance Studies 2E: An Introduction
Richard Schechner
Routledge, 2006
Performance Studies Review
The item was in perfect condition and I received it in a timely fashion. I enjoy the reading, though sometimes the author is not clear in his intentions and it leaves you confused.
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Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Mao rules
This is an excellent reader. Superb. Extremely funny essays from "publish or perish" series. As a student, I wasn't "frustrated by the lack of references, footnotes, and endnotes" at all. But, still, for a Stalinist/Maoist anthropology professor it may look so. ...
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Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 1994
Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues
This is a collection of essays by one of the best missiologist/anthropologist writers of our day. Paul Hiebert provides lucid and stimulating papers on epistemology (also see his "Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts" (Trinity Press, 1999) Critical ...
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