Tag: Anthropology

Free Download Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
by Matthew Klemm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110611341 | 172 Pages | PDF | 6.4 MB

Free Download Tom Widger, "Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic "
English | ISBN: 1138820741 | 2014 | 198 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes and history.

Free Download Peter Rivière, "A History of Oxford Anthropology "
English | ISBN: 1845456998 | 2009 | 230 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.

Free Download A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) by Alessandro Duranti, Rachel George, Robin Conley Riner
English | April 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1119780659 | 640 pages | MOBI | 17 Mb
Provides an expansive view of the full field of linguistic anthropology, featuring an all-new team of contributing authors representing diverse new perspectives

Free Download Emma Crewe, "Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1910376078 | EPUB | pages: 120 | 0.6 mb
The British Parliament rewards close scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but also because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of British politics. Commons and Lords pulls back the curtain on both the upper House of Lords and the lower House of Commons to examine their unexpected inner workings.

Free Download Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, Marjorie M. Snipes, "Introduction to Anthropology"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1711494984 | PDF | pages: 651 | 101.4 mb
Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field. There is significant discussion of recent efforts to make the field more diverse-in its practitioners, in the questions it asks, and in the applications of anthropological research to address contemporary challenges. In addressing social inequality, the text drives readers to consider the rise and impact of social inequalities based on forms of identity and difference (such as gender, ethnicity, race, and class) as well as oppression and discrimination. The contributors to and dangers of socioeconomic inequality are fully addressed, and the role of inequality in social dysfunction, disruption, and change is noted.

Free Download Gods in the House: Anthropology of Roman Housing II
by Alexandra Dardenay and Laurent Bricault
English | 2023 | ISBN: 2503601693 | 368 Pages | PDF | 4.3 MB

Free Download Janet Chrzan, "Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies "
English | ISBN: 1785332899 | 2017 | 275 pages | PDF | 1508 KB
This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author’s own work is to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore the methods.

Free Download Jeremy MacClancy, "Anthropology and Public Service: The UK Experience"
English | ISBN: 1785334026 | 2017 | 202 pages | PDF | 561 KB
These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance.

Free Download Conrad Phillip Kottak, "Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity Ed 19"
English | ISBN: 1260259293 | 2021 | 592 pages | PDF | 163 MB
Now in its 19th edition, Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity is an introduction to general (four-field) anthropology. It covers the four subfields – biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as anthropology’s two dimensions: academic and applied anthropology. While presenting anthropology’s core, the text also aims to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. The subtitle of the text reflects its goal of instilling a sense of appreciation: (1) of human diversity, (2) of anthropology as a field, and (3) of how anthropology can build on, and help make sense of, the experience that students bring to the classroom. There is special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on cultural behavior as well as updated consideration of race and ethnicity related to demographic shifts, and of gender fluidity.