The Anthropology of Media: A Reader

• Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time
• Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary
• Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media

offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.

• Brings together a sweeping collection of readings, drawn from a remarkable range of sources, that look at various conceptions and modes of violence.
  
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The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life.

• Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place
• Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life
• Includes introduction that synthesizes existing...

The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life.

• Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place
• Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life
• Includes introduction that synthesizes existing...

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world.

• Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices
  
• Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries--Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States
  
• Offers discussion of such hot...

This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices.

• Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures.
  
• Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology).
  
• Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity,...

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike.

• Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries
  
• Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and...

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike.

• Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries
  
• Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and...

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of -the state-.

• Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the -state-.


• Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.


• Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a...

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of -the state-.

• Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the -state-.


• Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.


• Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a...