They 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[...]
The 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[...]
This 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 [...]
Aimed 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[...]