CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the global conditions of inequality caused by the spread of capitalist relations of production. Thus, his book is more "political" than other introductory texts in the field. Keesing was also committed to the belief that students should not merely memorize terms and theories, but should also be challenged to ponder the deep questions raised by human diversity. Roger Keesing's untimely death in 1992 necessitated that a co-author execute his planned revision. Dr. Andrew Strathern was chosen because, like Keesing, his training is in the British social anthropological tradition, his fieldwork has concentrated on the Pacific, and his recent teaching experience has acquainted him with American cultural anthropology. In this revision, Dr. Strathern preserved Keesing's vision, arguments, and the ethnographies presented as illustrations of Keesing's theories, while also examining each sentence to determine whether its assertions needed to be updated, modified, or abandoned. Small changes made in this way incorporated a larger aim of updating and recasting the book to better fit and reflect a world 20 years since publication of the first edition.

Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective (Third Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Keesing, Roger M.(Roger M. Keesing)

Strathern, Andrew J.

Social Sciences

Wadsworth Publishing

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language.

Language and Culture in Dialogue

Stewart, Pamela J.

Anthropology

Routledge

Provides an excellent review of anthropological thought on the body

Body Thoughts

Univ of Michigan Pr

The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both established and more recent researchers are engaged. The companion begins by exploring classic topics such as Religion; Rituals; Language and Culture; Violence; and Gender. This is followed by a focus on current developments within the discipline including Human Rights; Globalization; and Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism. It provides an interesting and challenging look at the state of current thinking in anthropology, serving as a rich resource for scholars and students alike.

Religion & Spirituality

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea (ASAO MONOGRAPH)

History

Australia & Oceania

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

In this work on migration in New Guinea, migration is seen as the total circulation of people, objects, ideas and ritual complexes across, as well as within, cultural boundaries. The essays discuss how processes of flow have a transformative effect on the constitution of cultural groups themselves.

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea (Asao Monograph ; No. 15)

Mi Culture of the Mount Hagen People, Papua New Guinea

Strauss, Herman

Univ of Pittsburgh

Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. 
"Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace "development" as a way of describing policies that go beyond the concept of increasing commercial production or making monetary profits from enterprises. By focusing on topical case histories on agricultural activity, stock-keeping, cash cropping, mining, and renewable energy, the authors highlight how ethnographic studies can and should inform policy decisions at both local and global levels. 
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of applied anthropology, sociology, and development studies.

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By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. "Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace "development" as a way of describing policies that go beyond the concept of increasing commercial production or making monetary profits from enterprises. By focusing on topical case histories on agricultural activity, stock-keeping, cash cropping, mining, and renewable energy, the authors highlight how ethnographic studies can and should inform policy decisions at both local and global levels. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of applied anthropology, sociology, and development studies.

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Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective (Third Edition)

Language and Culture in Dialogue

Body Thoughts

The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea (ASAO MONOGRAPH)

Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea (Asao Monograph ; No. 15)

Mi Culture of the Mount Hagen People, Papua New Guinea

Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)

Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)