They Lie, We Lie (Häftad)
avPeter Metcalf
ISBN: 9780415262606 - UTGIVEN: 200110They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. This is nexessary because there has been a polarization within anthropology between thos[...]
Anthropology (Storpocket)
avPeter Metcalf
ISBN: 9780415331203 - UTGIVEN: 200509The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologist[...]
Celebrations of Death (Häftad)
avRichard Huntington, Peter Metcalf
ISBN: 9780521423755 - UTGIVEN: 199110This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other peopleâs death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer [...]
Laser Cooling and Trapping (Pocket)
avHarold Metcalf, Peter Van Der Straten
ISBN: 9780387987286 - UTGIVEN: 1999-11-01Aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. This work covers the foundations, the important techniques, and a range of applications: from atomic clocks and studies of collision processes to diffraction and interference of atomic beams at optical lattices and Bose-Einstein conde[...]
