Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to E.T. Culture take these communities seriously. They demon...(展开全部)

Ideal for any cultural anthropology course, this brief and inexpensive collection of ethnographic case studies exposes students to fifteen different cultures. "Culture Sketches" introduces students to ethnography without overwhelming them with excessive reading material. Each sketch, or chapter, was selected for its relevance to students and for its ability to reflect the basic...(展开全部)

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. The essays in "Culture, Power, Place" demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnat...(展开全部)

Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics ranging as far afield as the mass media, environmental and development issues, kinship...(展开全部)

The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their 'traffic' in non-Western objects. Starting from the premise that the traditional an...(展开全部)

Anthropologists now openly acknowledge that social anthropology can no longer fulfill its traditional aim of providing holistic, objective representations of people of "exotic" cultures. After Writing Culture asks what theoretical and practical role contemporary anthropology can play in our increasingly unpredictable and complex world. With fourteen articles written by well-kno...(展开全部)

Design Anthropology brings together a unique range of cutting-edge design theorists and social scientists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers utilised basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success today the design process has been radically transformed; the user is now centre-stage in the design proc...(展开全部)

Product Description "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and c...(展开全部)

At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community’s social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disast...(展开全部)

T.E.T.教师效能训练，各国教育家口碑相传的革命性教师培训课程，由美国著名心理学家托马斯·戈登博士于1965年创建，被美国公、私立学校广泛采用。50年来，遍及全美及世界27个国家，全球千万名教师受惠于此套方法。课程的设计者托马斯·戈登博士，前美国白宫儿童顾问，连续3次获诺贝尔和平奖提名，被誉为“沟通之父”。他创建的“戈登方法”，闻名全球，畅销书《如何说孩子才会听，如何听孩子才肯说》理念的精髓即来自此方法。这一课程所教授的技巧与方法构成了本书的内容，书中很多案例和叙述来自参加培训的老师的切身经历与体验。本书的神奇魔力：快速建立优质师生关系，高效改善学生课堂表现，显著提高教师效能。