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A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
Da Capo Press, 2005
Absolutely well-written and thought-provoking
This is a really interesting book that briefly talks about the rise and fall of civilizations, the factors that leads to their collapse. At the end of each sections, the author poses questions to ponder. Why this happened and what caused that to happen. In very fine ...
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Performance Studies 2E: An Introduction
Richard Schechner
Routledge, 2006
Performance Studies Review
The item was in perfect condition and I received it in a timely fashion. I enjoy the reading, though sometimes the author is not clear in his intentions and it leaves you confused.
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Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
David H. Price
Duke University Press, 2008
By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible social weaknesses in enemy nations, and ...
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Understanding Culture : An Introduction to Anthropological Theory
Philip Carl Salzman
Waveland Press, 2001
finally -- a good overview of contemporary anthro theory!
This little book is a gem. For years, Kaplan and Manners' CULTURE THEORY was my guide for a quick, unbiased overview of anthropological theory. K&M, while still useful, sorely needs an update. Waveland Press (which also published CULTURE THEORY), scores again with ...
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
Pamela Moro, James Myers, ...
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006
Compilation of very educational articles
I had to read this for an Anthropology class (Magic Witchcraft and Religion) and got so much out of it. Not only did my perspectives on some things change but I got a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind religion's role in society.
Some of the articles were ...
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Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, Marvin K. Mayers
Baker Academic, 2003
Great resource for any Christian
This book is one that I would recommend to any Christian who encounters someone from a different culture (hopefully that means all Christians). This book helps the believer to understand how to be more like Christ, who came to our world as a different culture. It ...
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Anthropological Insights for Missionaries
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 1985
Anthropological insights are for missionaries!
Missionaries should learn and understand culture of the people to whom they want to preach the gospel. I agree with Hiebert that without all that knowledge their message may be irrelevant and meaningless in cultural enviroment that is different from the cultural ...
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The Future of Man
Teilhard De Chardin
Image, 2004
The end of mankind is in consciousness of God
Teilhard de Chardin was a distinguished paleontologist and a Catholic thinker of great scope and depth. His vision of Mankind grew out of his scientific researches and his religious faith and is essentially a synthesis of both . Chardin pictures the universe evoloving ...
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Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Mao rules
This is an excellent reader. Superb. Extremely funny essays from "publish or perish" series. As a student, I wasn't "frustrated by the lack of references, footnotes, and endnotes" at all. But, still, for a Stalinist/Maoist anthropology professor it may look so. ...
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Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 2008
A fantastic and important work
Transforming worldviews covers a full range of anthropological ideas and applies them to the concept of worldview. Scholarly in nature, its tone is readable and it applies important and diverse disciplines and concepts to thinking about worldview. This book is a major ...
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
Elenore Smith Bowen
Anchor, 1964
Great for the traveler!
Although the politically correct and socially aware reader may be inclined to huff and puff a little bit over this anthropological journey through Africa, it is neccessary to take into account the actual year that this book was first written. Aside from a few "dated" ...
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Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History
R. Jon McGee, Richard Warms
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007
Pertinent and probably 'fair'.
I bought this book as a textbook for a class of Anthropolocial Theory and Method. Except for the sociobiology section and Darwin, we read the majority of this work in class. I give this collection of original writings five stars because the commentary seems ...
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The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Helen Thomas
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are ...
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The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia
James Holston
University Of Chicago Press, 1989
More important than ever
Now that Neo-modernism has become the prevailing architectural fad, this book is more important than ever. It's important for up and coming young architects to get past form, learn about the negative effects of Modernist architecture on people and try to improve upon ...
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Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Alessandro Duranti
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Language is Power
I just finished reading Alesandro Duranti's 1997 book for my linguistic anthropology core class. I wanted to take the opportunity here to comment on this book. A. Duranti goes through all of the major theoretical underpinnings and morphological manifestations that the ...
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