Tag: Anthropological

Free Download Julie D. Finlayson, "Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton"
English | ISBN: 1743057563 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Peter Sutton has been at various times, and sometimes simultaneously, a museum-based anthropologist with a foundational role in raising the profile of Australian Indigenous art, an anthropologist and linguist who has made significant ethnographic, analytical and theoretical contributions to both fields, and to the intersection between them, an expert on native title, and a public intellectual.

Free Download Anthropological Thought: From Evolutionism to Postmodernism and Beyond
by Vijoy S. Sahay
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819769299 | 283 Pages | True PDF | 3.8 MB

Free Download Karl Härter, "On Mediation: Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1789208696 | 2020 | 238 pages | PDF | 755 KB
Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. Divided into three sections, the volume observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas. In this regard, the book provides an innovative perspective on mediation and new insights into conflict regulation.

Free Download Markus Virgil Hoehne, "Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters"
English | ISBN: 1800736754 | 2022 | 413 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Free Download Günther Schlee, "Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration: Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion "
English | ISBN: 1785337157 | 2017 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
What does it mean to "fit in?" In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people’s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Free Download Rik Pinxten, "Humanism Revisited: An Anthropological Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1805394738 | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 608 KB + 2 MB
The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from ‘heteronomy’: it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (and often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help promote inclusion and pluralism.

Free Download Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, "Cash Transfers in Context: An Anthropological Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1785339575 | 2018 | 342 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide – detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.

Free Download Nicolas Argenti, "Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission"
English | ISBN: 1845456246 | 2009 | 280 pages | PDF | 1469 KB
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume sheds new light on the role of memory in constructing popular histories – or historiographies – of violence in the absence of, or in contradistinction to, authoritative written histories. It brings new ethnographic data to light and presents a truly cross-cultural range of case studies that will greatly enhance the discussion of memory and violence across disciplines.

Free Download Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, "Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1845451988 | 2008 | 184 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. Elaborate displays of order seem necessary to legitimate the institutionalization of violence by military and legal establishments, yet violent behaviour can be incorporated into the social order by the development of boundaries, rituals and established processes of conflict resolution. Order is said to depend upon justice, yet injustice legitimates disruptive protest. Case studies from Siberia, India, Indonesia, Tibet, West Africa, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire show that local responses are often inconsistent in their valorization, acceptance and condemnation of disorder.

Free Download Diana Espírito Santo, "UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge: Imagining the Impossible in Chile "
English | ISBN: 1032494662 | 2024 | 170 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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