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)