books about: anthropological

books about: anthropological

books:

Anthropological

Understanding Culture : An Introduction to Anthropological Theory

Philip Carl Salzman

Waveland Press, 2001

finally -- a good overview of contemporary anthro theory!
This little book is a gem. For years, Kaplan and Manners' CULTURE THEORY was my guide for a quick, unbiased overview of anthropological theory. K&M, while still useful, sorely needs an update. Waveland Press (which also published CULTURE THEORY), scores again with ...

Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Stefan Helmreich

University of California Press, 2009

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Sargasso Sea and at ...

Reflections on Anthropology: A Four-Field Reader
Katherine Dettwyler, Vaughn Bryant

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

An outstanding complement to any introductory textbook in general anthropology, this new reader provides a balanced presentation of all four fields. Its 44 articles focus on topics not usually covered in depth in general textbooks; more than half of the selections were published between 2000-2002, and many address controversial topics (e.g., ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Future of Man

Teilhard De Chardin

Image, 2004

The end of mankind is in consciousness of God
Teilhard de Chardin was a distinguished paleontologist and a Catholic thinker of great scope and depth. His vision of Mankind grew out of his scientific researches and his religious faith and is essentially a synthesis of both . Chardin pictures the universe evoloving ...

A Short History of Progress

Ronald Wright

Da Capo Press, 2005

Of "Progress Traps" and inflexible thinking
A concise, readable, and punchy description of the manner in which a number of historical societies rendered their way of life obsolete and destroyed themselves by failing to adapt and to think ahead. He describes as "progress traps" the apparent improvements of ...

Transforming Culture: A Challenge for Christian Mission

Sherwood G., Lingenfelter

Baker Academic, 1998

Review of "Transforming Culture" for Pepperdine Missions class
Lingenfelter's book opens with the valuable point that Christians are pilgrims on earth, participants in the culture of Christ. Going beyond the differences between "collectivistic" cultures and "individualistic" cultures, he identifies five different social games ...

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 ...

Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry
Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto

Cambridge University Press, 1978

This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations about human nature are derived. The specific elements of anthropological research - such as interviewing ...

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 ...

Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Great book.
This was an excellent read and continues to be a very highly valued resource. It covers the most exciting and new areas in lingustic anthropology. A must for students of linguistics.

Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Zdenek Salzmann

Westview Press, 2006

This fourth edition expands its coverage of the fundamental issues in the field, including language and gender, and language and ethnicity. Now with a built-in Resource Manual and Study Guide, Language, Culture, and Society is the teaching text for the linguistic anthropology course.

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

David Graeber

Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Brilliant book! Graeber is a rising star in anthropology.
Graeber is extremely erudite but never overbearing. His logic is complex, impeccable, and totalizing. And he has with easy grace wrung new meanings and infused new life into classic anthropological cases and works that hitherto have existed simply to torment fledgeling ...

Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Alessandro Duranti

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Language is Power
I just finished reading Alesandro Duranti's 1997 book for my linguistic anthropology core class. I wanted to take the opportunity here to comment on this book. A. Duranti goes through all of the major theoretical underpinnings and morphological manifestations that the ...