Dover Publications. Evans, Grant. He collaborated with H. Barnes to edit the large historical reference work Social Thought from Lore to Science, , 3rd edition , Benedict, Ruth Fulton American anthropologist and poet.
The third volume is entirely devoted to the literature of physical anthropology , and is an indispensable reference work. Skip to content. Author : William A. Author : Pamela J. Author : Hans A. Author : Laura L. He engages both modern philosophers and popular imagery to isolate the instabilities central to a "white religion," including the inadequacy of this framing concept as a way of describing and processing death.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in African-American Religion, philosophy and race, and Whiteness Studies. Designed especially to meet the needs of beginners in all the social sciences, "A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences" follows its highly successful distinguished predecessor initially issued as "A Dictionary of Sociology" first published in Many of the entries have been revised and updated to keep abreast of the proliferation in the vocabulary of the social sciences.
The volume remains on excellent single source for definitions in social research. The entries include social psychological terms, terms in social and cultural anthropology, terms common to political science, social administration and social work. In the choice of words, a generous definition of social science was employed, making the dictionary a very useful reference source for all beginners in the social sciences.
Some terms are explained quite briefly while others are given lengthy treatment, according to the further assumptions that some sociological terms can imply. Thus, long entries are given on words, such as authority, consensus, phenomenology, role, social stratification, structuralism, whereas short and succinct entries suffice for words such, as agnate, eidos, or mores.
A number of short biographical sketches are also included. The contributors are all scholars working in universities, predominantly in the United Kingdom and the United States. More than a glossary, "A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences" helps the student understand some of the theoretical considerations underlying the use of sociological terms, as well as something of their history, and therefore resembles an encyclopaedia in its scope and depth of information.
The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by transnationalism and by new kinds of individualism. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating critical introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the idea of community in Western utopian thought, and as a theme in classical sociology and anthropology.
He goes on to chart the resurgence of the idea within communitarian thought and postmodern philosophies, the complications and critiques of multiculturalism, and new manifestations of community within a society where changing modes of communication produce both fragmentation and possibilities of new social bonds.
Contemporary community, he argues, is essentially a communication community based on belonging and sharing, and can be a powerful voice of political opposition. Discuss the role of the homestead and Search this site. Audacity 1. Auto Repair Forms ePub.
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With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps "Anthropology and the Human Subject" provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western intellectual tradition, focusing specifically on the secular trends of the twentieth century.
Encyclopaedic in scope, lucidly and engagingly written, the book covers the man and varied currents of thought within this tradition. Each chapter deals with a specific intellectual paradigm, ranging from Marx's historical materialism and Darwin's evolutionary naturalism, and their various off shoots, through to those currents of though that were prominent in the late twentieth century, such as, for example, existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology and poststructuralism.
With respect to each current of thought a focus is placed on their main exemplars, outlining their biographical context, their mode of social analysis, and the "ontology of the subject" that emerges from their key texts. The book will appeal not only to anthropologists but to students and scholars within the human sciences and philosophy, as well as to any person interested in the question: What does it mean to be human?
He makes difficult work accessible. His prose conveys the unmistakable impression of a superb and meticulous lecturer at work.
Insightful as well as incisive I have found his writings an educational experience. This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The methodological theme continues with an assessment of the implications for interpretation of different methods used to record Linear Enamel Hypoplasia LEH and on the use and interpretation of three dimensional modeling to generate pictures of the content of collective graves.
Three case studies on palaeopathology are presented. First is the analysis of a 5th—16th century skeletal collection from the Isle of May compared with one from medieval Scotland in an attempt to ascertain whether the former benefitted from a healing tradition.
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