Sampler: Anthropology - Key Readings
This chapter sampler features selections from 17 of our leading titles on various areas of Anthropology, spanning; General Anthropology, Political and Economic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Theory and Methodology.
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General Anthropology
Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Charles D. Laughlin (Introduction)
Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Laura Nader (Introduction)
The Riddle of Intelligence: It’s Not What You Think
John Terrell, Eugene Anderson, Foreman Bandama, Abhik Ghosh, and Marcia Leenen-Young (Introduction)
Aging and the Digital Life Course
Edited by David Prendergast and Chiara Garattini (Introduction)
Political and Economic Anthropology
Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Rosita Armytage (Introduction)
The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain
Celia Plender (Introduction)
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City
Denys Gorbach (Introduction)
The Anthropology of Retirement: Life Beyond Work
Edited by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller (Introduction)
Medical Anthropology
Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
Edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo (Introduction)
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Edited by Katharina Schramm, David Skinner and Richard Rottenburg (Chapter One)
Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India: Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions
Sheela Suryanarayanan (Introduction)
From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe
Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, and A. Jamie Saris (Introduction)
Theory and Methodology
Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology
Marcus Banks (Introduction)
Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright, and Davide Però (Introduction)
An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts
David Zeitlyn (Introduction)
Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (Introduction)