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Anthropology for Development : From Theory to Practice

Robyn Eversole 2018 ISBN: 1138932809  202 Pages Routledge Anthropology for Development: From Theory to Practice connects cross-cultural social theory with the concerns of development policy and practice. It introduces the reader to a set of key ideas from the field of anthropology of development, and shows how these insights can be applied to solve real-world development dilemmas. This single, accessibly written volume clearly explains key concepts from anthropology and draws them into a framework to address some of the important challenges facing development policy and practice in the twenty-first century: poverty, participation, sustainability and innovation. It discusses classic critical and ethnographic texts and more recent anthropological work, using rich case studies across a range of country contexts to provide an introduction to the field not available elsewhere. The examples presented are designed to help development professionals reframe their pract...

Living Language : An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 2nd Edition

Laura M. Ahearn English | 2017 | ISBN: 1119060605 | 390 Pages Revised and updated, the 2nd Edition of Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology presents an accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. - Presents a highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world - Combines classic studies on language and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship and assumes no prior knowledge in linguistics or anthropology - Features a series of updates and revisions for this new edition, including an all-new chapter on forms of nonverbal language - Provides a unifying synthesis of current research and considers future directions for the field

Articulating Dinosaurs : A Political Anthropology (Brian Noble)

Brian Noble English | 2016 | ISBN: 1442627050 | 506 Pages In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Following the complex exchanges of palaeontologists, museums specialists, film- and media-makers, science fiction writers, and their diverse publics, he witnesses how fossil remains are taken from their partial state and re-composed into astonishingly precise, animated presences within the modern world, with profound political consequences. Articulating Dinosaurs examines the resurrecting of two of the most iconic and gendered of dinosaurs. First Noble traces the emergence of Tyrannosaurus rex (the "king of the tyrant lizards") in the early twentieth-century scientific, literary, and filmic cross-currents associated with the American Museum of Natural History under the direction of palaeontologist and eugenicist H...

The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society

Sallie Han (Editor),? Tracy K Betsinger (Editor),? Amy B Scott (Editor) Berghahn | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 1785336916 | 298 Pages As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Contributors draw on research in prehistoric, historic, and contemporary sites in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to explore the biological and cultural phenomenon of the fetus, raising methodological and theoretical concerns with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.

Engaging Native American Publics : Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key

Paul V. Kroskrity and Barbra A. Meek English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138950947 | 220 Pages  Engaging Native American Publics considers the increasing influence of Indigenous groups as key audiences, collaborators, and authors with regards to their own linguistic documentation and representation. The chapters critically examine a variety of North American case studies to reflect on the forms and effects of new collaborations between language researchers and Indigenous communities, as well as the types and uses of products that emerge with notions of cultural maintenance and linguistic revitalization in mind. In assessing the nature and degree of change from an early period of 'salvage' research to a period of greater Indigenous 'self-determination,' the volume addresses whether increased empowerment and accountability has truly transformed the terms of engagement and what the implications for the future might be.

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

Amiria Henare (Editor),‎ Martin Holbraad (Editor),‎ Sari Wastell (Editor) 2006 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1844720721 Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its?philosophical foundations.?The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregat...

Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality (Lyons and Lyons)

Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons English | 2004 | ISBN: 0803229534 | PDF | 437 Pages | Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race.?Because sex is the most private of activities and often carries a high emotional charge, it is peculiarly difficult to investigate. At times, such as the late 1920s and the last decade of the twentieth century, sexuality has been a central concern of anthropologists and focal in their theoretical formulations. At other times the study of sexuality has been marginalized. The anthrop...

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (Jackson and Depew)

John P Jackson  and David J. Depew   2017 | ISBN-10: 1138628174 | 252 Pages Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book's focal figures the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn  found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas's racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, ...

Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field (Jean-Guy A. Goulet-eds)

English | 2007 | ISBN: 0803259921 | 475 Pages Jean-Guy A. Goulet (Editor),‎ Bruce Granville Miller (Editor),‎ Johannes Fabian (Preface) What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? In Extraordinary Anthropology leading ethnographers from across the globe discuss the importance of the deeply personal and emotionally volatile "ecstatic...

Buku Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter

 Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter Judul:  Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter by Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, and Douglas Cox Tahun:  2006 Penerbit: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 0871545705 Halaman: 239Pages Ketika terjadi potensi konflik bahkan terjadi suatu konflik yang krusial, bagaimana peran pendekatan budaya?  Bagaimana sumbangsih penelitian etnografi melalui pendekatan budaya dapat mengatasi potensi konflik di suatu kawasan? Mengapa masalah perebutan sumber daya alam menjadi potensi kerawanan konflik? Buku ini menjadi salah satu rujukan dalam membahas dan menjawab beberapa pertanyaan di atas, kolaborasi antara pakar pendidikan, antropolog dan ekolog menjadikan perspektif budaya dapat berkelindan dengan sistem nilai kelingkungan dan kebudayaan. Dalam masyarakat multikultur, perbedaan menjadi hal yang lumrah dan di sisi lain menjadi pemicu kerawananan termasuk terjadinya konflik melalui kompetisi perilaku dan perbe...

A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays (Bronislaw Malinowski)

Buku karya Malinowski yang ditulis pada tahun 1944 ini memberikan penjelasan tentang seluk beluk dari antropologi sebagai kajian keilmuwan. Malinowski lebih menekankan pada pengetahuan tentang kebudayaan yang dibahas sampai 13 sub bab. Dalam review ini saya menjelaskan tiga sub bab awal tulisan yang membahas tentang kebudayaan sebagai subyek investigasi keilmuwan, definisi sederhana secara keilmuwan pada humanisme dan konsep serta metode dalam antropologi. Antropologi lebih dikenal dengan studi tentang manusia, label ini dipakai sejak kemunculan awal antropologi sebagai kajian keilmuwan sampai hari ini. Manusia dipelajari dari pola kehidupan, perilaku, interaksi, benda material yang dihasilkan sampai pada perkembangan suatu peradaban. Semua ini adalah kebudayaan, sebagai tema pokok dalam kajian tentang manusia. Antropologi mempelajari manusia dari aspek yang lebih luas, selain fisik juga pada aspek folklore, prasejarah sampai pada budaya yang kerap sedikit mengalami ketercampuran ...

Review Buku Mythologies karya Roland Barthes (1957)

Buku Mitologi karya Roland Barthes yang diterjemahkan menjadi “Membedah Mitos-mitos Budaya Massa: Semiotika atau Sosiologi Tanda, Simbol dan Representrasi”. Pada bab terakhir mitos dewasa ini adalah bab yang memberikan penjelasan lengkap dan komprehensif tentang mitologi yang berkaitan dengan fenomena dan benda-benda yang ada di sekitar kita yang kerap dianggap remeh seperti iklan, fotografi, tayangan televisi sampai pada jargon iklan, namun bersifat aktual. Dan yang menjadi kajian utama dalam buku ini adalah foto seorang negro yang mengenakan seragam tentara sedang member hormat pada bendera Prancis. Gambar ini bermakna ganda sebagai bentuk kesetiaan warga yang multikultur di Prancis dan  imperium yang bersifat rasial di Prancis. Mitos dalam buku ini bukan sekadar cerita yang terjadi pada masa lampau, legenda dan sebuah retotika yang bersifat naratif serta tidak bisa terbantahkan. Mitologi atau mitos menurut Roland Barthes bisa disamakan dengan “ideologi”. Beberapa catatan yang me...

Indonesia di Mata (mata-i) Post Kolonial karya Budi Susanto, S.J. (editor)

Susanto, Budi, S.J. 2010. Indonesia di mata (mata-i) Post Kolonialitas.Jogjakarta: Penerbit Kanisius. Buku bunga rampai yang diedit oleh Budi Susanto, S.J berisi tentang kajian post kolonial dalam melihat negara-negara dunia ketiga seperti Indonesia dan India. Dalam konteks sejarah pada masa penjajahan antara India dengan Indonesia memang telah ada pertalian nama di kalangan bangsa barat untuk menyebut India depan dan India belakang (Indonesia / Hindia Belanda). Karya-karya penulis dalam buku ini yang tergolong penulis aliran orientalis berupa membedah kebudayaan negara-negara yang menjadi sasaran sepak terjang kolonialis barat dengan mencari nilai esensi budaya dan sistem kemasyarakatan yang telah ada dalam masyarakat tersebut, selanjutnya dibuat dari data yang ada dibuat untuk kepentingan kolonial sendiri termasuk dalam menggulirkan wacana tentang identitas, kultur sampai sejarah. Penulisan dalam buku ini menggunakan kata “saya” yang dalam penulisannya ada beberapa yang menyatakan p...

Pergulatan Identitas: Dayak dan Indonesia, Belajar dari Tjilik Riwut Karya P.M. Laksono dkk

Laksono, P.M. et al. 2006. Pergulatan Identitas: Dayak dan Indonesia, Belajar dari Tjilik Riwut. Jogjakarta: Galang Press Buku Pergulatan Identitas: Dayak dan Indonesia, Belajar dari Tjilik Riwut Karya P.M. Laksono dkk, apakah dapat dikatakan sebagai buku biografi yang etnografis atau buku etnografi yang berbasis biografi dengan menggunakan actor oriented yang berbasis pasca strukturalis? Bagaimana membedakannya? Tjilik Riwut yang saya ketahui biasanya berasal dari materi Sejarah mengajar di Bimbel sebagai salah satu tokoh yang gigih mempertahankan kemerdekaan dari kedatangan kembali Belanda yang membonceng sekutu. Setelah membaca buku Pergulatan Identitas: Dayak dan Indonesia, Belajar dari Tjilik Riwut Karya P.M. Laksono dkk saya lebih dekat dan semakin dalam mengenal siapa itu Tjilik Riwut. Buku ini menyajikan sebuah karya biografi yang berbasis pasca struktural (hal. xix) karena bersifat sangat reflektif yang tidak bersifat sekadar menggurui pembaca namun mengajak pembacanya mere...