“Anthropology” is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species.Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropologystudies cultural meaning, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropologystudieshow language influences social life. Biological or physical anthropologystudies the biological development of humans. Visual anthropology, which is usually considered to be a part of social anthropology, can mean both ethnographic film (where photography, film, and new media are used for study) as well as the study of "visuals", including art, visual images, cinema etc. Oxford Bibliographies describes visual anthropology as "the anthropological study of the visual and the visual study of the anthropological".
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (60 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
The association between somatotype and nutritional status: a cross-sectional study among the adult Sabar males of Purulia, West Bengal, India
- Chapter 2
Agricultural adaptation to climate change in the trans-Himalaya: a study of Loba Community of Lo-manthang, Upper Mustang, Nepal
- Chapter3
Intercultural pedagogies: experiencing the kungfu teaching methods at the Shaolin Temple
- Chapter4
The rhythms of life in the Himalaya: seasonality and sociality among the Gurung people of the Nhāson Valley
- Chapter5
Sewing transnational textures of labour regulation: towards an integrative perspective
- Chapter 6
Globeville: the neighborhood that shapes the learning environment for BFLA Spanish-English Mexican Americans
- Chapter 7
Design ecologies: sustaining ethno-cultural significance of products through urban ecologies of creative practice
- Chapter 8
The plural unification of sciences: the epistemological contributions of a perpetually dissatisfied discipline
- Chapter 9
A brief history of human evolution: challenging Darwin’s claim
- Chapter 10
Revisiting the ‘ethnic enclave economy’: resilient adaptation of small businesses in times of crisis in Spain
- Chapter 11
Does affirmative action in Chinese college admissions lead to mismatch? Educational quality and the relative returns to a baccalaureate degree for minorities in China
- Chapter 12
From the jungle to urban centers: body image and self-esteem of women in three different cultures
- Chapter 13
Colonial Ideology, Colonial Sciences and Colonial Sociology in Belgium
- Chapter 14
Prostitution in northern Central India: an ethnographical study of Bedia community
- Chapter 15
Harmony in diversity: an empirical study of harmonious co-existence in the multi-ethnic culture of Qinghai
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Anthropology and Ethnology.
Man Bahadur Khattri
Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Marta Nešković
Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, 18-20 ?ika Ljubina Street, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
Ludger Pries
Fakult?t für Sozialwissenschaft - Fach 145, Raum GD E 1/313, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Universit?tsstr, 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
Irdawati Bay Nalls
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 48 Nanyang Avenue, HSS-03-25, Singapore, 639818, Singapore
Stuart Walker
ImaginationLancaster Design Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK
Roberto Malighetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan, Italy
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