Tag: Anthropological

Free Download An Anthropological Journey into Well-Being: Insights from Bolivia By Melania Calestani (auth.)
2013 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 9400756682 | PDF | 1 MB
This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of ‘the good life’ in a specific place. Rather than numbers, this research focuses on local narratives, emphasising the urgent need to include a wider range of methodological approaches when engaging with well-being. The volume demonstrates through the Bolivian case study the value of qualitative research for well-being studies. It shows the potential to integrate predominant quantitative data with qualitative outcomes, such as those emerging through ethnography. It is aimed at academics, researchers and students in well-being/quality of life studies, as well as audiences in the non-profit, governmental and policy in the non-profit, governmental and policy sectors. The book provides new perspectives in achieving better indicators of well-being and quality-of-life.

Free Download Oliver Woolley, "The Earth Shakers of Madagascar: An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0826457509, 0367716623 | EPUB | pages: 294 | 0.5 mb
An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.

Free Download Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, "Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0990505073 | PDF | pages: 232 | 1.2 mb
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field-Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane-to discuss, via lectures and responses, important topics facing anthropological ethics and the theoretical debates that surround it.

Free Download Stephen J. A. Ward, "Anthropological Realism: Ethics for a Global World"
English | ISBN: 1527586189 | 2024 | 445 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Anthropological Realism is a new theory of ethics that transforms static moral principles into global normative ideals. Two prominent weaknesses in the field provide the rationale for this book. First, as a discipline, ethics lacks a strong theoretical basis. A second concern is moral parochialism. Technologies are global, but international perspectives rarely reflect an ethics anchored in humanity as a whole. Progress in developing a moral globalism as the basis for ethics has been prevented by unproductive dualisms that lead to stalemates. Ethics is typically divided into opposites such as individual and society, consequentialism and deontology, and local and global. To deal constructively with this history of unproductive disputes, the book focuses on a fundamental rivalry in philosophical ethics-the opposition between realism and anti-realism. To move the field forward, the authors create a next-generation moral theory of hybrid moral realism that promotes a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.

Free Download Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps"
English | 2019 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 3030263789, 3030263754 | PDF | 2,7 mb
This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose). Combining analyses of local contexts with insights and methods from the global subfield of digital anthropology, the contributors here recognize the complex ways that in-app and on-ground worlds interact in a wide range of communities and traditions. While some of the case studies emphasize the cultural significance of use in local contexts and relationships to pre-existing knowledge networks and/or non-digital relationships of power, others explore the globalizing and democratizing influences of mobile apps as communication technologies. From Catholic confession apps to Jewish Kaddish assistance apps and Muslim halal food apps, readers will see how religious-themed mobile apps create complex sites for potential new forms of religious expression, worship, discussion, and practices.

Free Download Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History: Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia By Waldemar Bogoras
2016 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 1332753965 | EPUB | 1 MB
From the Anthropological Papers Of The American Museum Of Natural History Vol. XX, Part I. Chapters include: Tales Of The Tundra Yukaghir; Tales Of The Lamut; Kolyma Tales; Children’s Stories; Markova Tales; and, Anadyr Tales.

Free Download Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World: An Anthropological Odyssey By June C. Nash
2006 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0759108811 | PDF | 118 MB
In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner.

Free Download Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel by Elenore Smith Bowen
English | 1964 | ISBN: 0385053126 | 320 Pages | PDF | 18.0 MB
This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an Anthropologists first year in the field with a remote African tribe.

Free Download Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies By Gary Lee Downey; Joseph Dumit
1997 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0933452969 | PDF | 57 MB
Some of the country’s most influential thinkers use anthropological methods and theories to examine the practices and practitioners of contemporary science, technology, and medicine in the United States. The authors explore such questions as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of selves.

Free Download Maria-Keiko Yasuoka, "Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study"
English | ISBN: 1498515681 | 2019 | 242 pages | PDF | 1062 KB