Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Anthropology development and human rights 3 Anthropology and development in a globalized India 4 Globalization and international service 5 Globalization and the psychological anthropology of childhood and adolescence 6 Anthropological knowledge for human welfare 7 Anthropology of a genocide tribal movements in Central India against over industrialization 8 In search of anthropological concreteness individual narratives in anthropology 9 The anthropology of colonialism culture history and the emergence 10 Anthropology and post-colonial thought the paradoxical quest for positionality 11 An anthropological concept of the concept 12 The challenge of television for anthropology 13 Majoring in anthropology Bibliography IndexAnthropology is the study of humans past and present To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences A central concern of anthropologists is the application of knowledge to the solution of human problems Historically anthropologists in the United States have been trained in one of four areas socio cultural anthropology biologicalphysical anthropology archaeology and linguistics Anthropologists often integrate the perspectives of several of these areas into their research teaching and professional livesAddressing complex questions such as human origins the past and contemporary spread and treatment of infectious disease or globalization requires synthesizing information from all four subfields Anthropologists are highly specialized in our research interests yet we remain generalists in our observations of the human conditions and we advocate for a public anthropology that is committed to bringing knowledge to broad audiences Anthropologists collaborate closely with people whose cultural patterns and processes we seek to understand or whose living conditions require amelioration 264 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 99575
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