Cairo Magazine
"Dramas of Nationhood. The Politics of Television in Egypt" by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod is the first major work to analyze contemporary Egypt TV watching nation. 10 years went into researching and writing the book. Ten years spent… more »
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Edward P. Wolfers, The National (Papua New Guinea)
The book "The Name Must Not Go Down: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea" by Dr Joseph Ketan is primarily a study of political competition in the area ar… more »
Tucson Weekly
Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, a scholarly collection of articles from the University of Arizona Press, examines a number of divinatory systems in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Divination is present, to some extent, in all cultu… more »
Just discovered the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association's website. You can't read the articles in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, but you'll find lots of interesting book reviews. Lots of stuff to explore! >> continue to t… more »
Ronald Hutton, Times Online
Piers Vitebsky is one of a tiny number of British experts on the region and an internationally renowned anthropologist. This book "REINDEER PEOPLE: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia" is the record of successive vis… more »
Martin Jacques, The Guardian
There are many ways of recounting the history of the world - via the rise and fall of civilisations, the fortunes of nation states, socio-economic systems and patterns, the development of technology, or the chronology of w… more »
The Oberlin Review
“Dead bodies have enjoyed political life the world over,” said anthropologist Katherine Verdery on Monday. She did not, however, mean this literally. Verdery’s lecture, appropriately called “The Political Lives of Dead Bodies” after… more »
by lorenz on Mar 13, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories • 2 comments »
This classic study in early anthropology (all in all 12 volumes, I think) is published online as part of Project Gutenberg. del.icio anthropology pointed to the book published on Bartleby's website. But the book can also be downloaded from Sacred Texts-w… more »
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