History & Theory of Anthropology Books

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   Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals): Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution

   By L. S. B. Leakey, Vanne Morris Goodall

   Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-61128-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

   By Tim Ingold

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57684-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Fifty Key Anthropologists

   Edited by Robert Gordon, Harriet Lyons, Andrew Lyons

   Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-46105-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders

   By Satadru Sen

   This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-49782-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy: Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

   Edited by Joy Hendry, Heung Wah Wong

   It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’ systems of thought against a more authentic ‘Eastern’ alternative. Top scholars in the field of Japan anthropology examine, challenge...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54555-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Crime and Custom in Savage Society: [1926/1940]

   By Malinowski

   This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law....

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-48836-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays: [1944]

   By Malinowski

   Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture....

   2008 | 978-0-415-48837-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the...

   2008 | 978-0-415-47553-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   2007 | 978-0-415-96089-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science

    By Martha McCaughey

    Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through...

    2007 | 978-0-415-93475-6 | Paperback (Routledge)