cultural anthropology

The authors argue against the form-following-function-alone assumption of the development of humans bringing together perspectives from archaeology, educational theory, primatology, and cultural anthropology to refute the idea that each part of the human anatomy has evolved for functional utility alone.

Contributors are a scholars based in Europe representing a mix of disciplines including cultural studies, cultural anthropology, international relations, geography, and intellectual history.

Drawing on cultural anthropology and sport theory, Kylasov introduces a new theory of sport that promotes ethno-cultural diversity by developing traditional styles of physical activity.

International contributors in history and cultural anthropology probe new positions for the historical discourse of the Holocaust and survey scholarly arguments in contemporary Holocaust scholarship.

The accompanying audiovisual disk contains excerpts of longer field, stage, studio, or home recordings from 1952 to 2011; most are from the audiovisual archive of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies in Tirane.

Essays are: between status quo and change (Albania); conundrums of ethnological and anthropological research in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bulgarian ethnology in the wake of 1989; Croatian ethnology as cultural anthropology at home; the ethnological sciences in Greece since the late 1980s; talking to ourselves (Kosovo); against all odds (Macedonia); studying and teaching anthropology in Moldova after 1991 (Moldova); ethnology in Montenegro; social anthropology in Romania after 1990; a contribution to the study of the development of ethnology and anthropology in post-socialist Serbia; studying post-socialism in Slovenia; the culture and education policies and the cultural sciences in Turkey.

Joshi (social and cultural anthropology, Oxford U.) has been studying the Naga people of northeastern India since 1985.

Humanity; an introduction to cultural anthropology, 9th ed.

Nanda and Warms introduce fundamental concepts, theories, methods, data, and references of cultural anthropology and cover all the areas typically treated in an introductory course.

This cultural anthropology textbook is presented in a question-and-answer format and is organized around eight general problems that arise from the human condition, such as how to understand people with different beliefs and behaviors, reasons why ways of life change, how people justify violence, and whether there is a solution to problems of social inequality.

Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 14th Edition

Both translations are by Karin Barber (African cultural anthropology, U.