Anthropology Goes to the Fair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology Goes to the Fair write by Nancy J. Parezo. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Anthropology Goes to the Fair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. This title shows how anthropology showcased itself "to show each half of the world how the other half lives".
Anthropology of the Brain
Anthropology of the Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology of the Brain write by Roger Bartra. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Anthropology of the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for neurologists, cognitive scientists and anthropologists alike.
The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games
The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games write by Susan Brownell. This book was released on 2008-12-01. The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World?s Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively. McGee recruited Natives who were participating in the fair?s ethnic displays to compete in sports events, with the ?scientific? goal of measuring the physical prowess of ?savages? as compared with ?civilized men.? This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World?s Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant. A turning point in both the history of the Olympics and the development of modern anthropology, these games expressed the conflict between the Old World emphasis on culture and New World emphasis on utilitarianism. Marked by Franz Boas?s paper at the Scientific Congress, the events in St. Louis witnessed the beginning of the shift in anthropological research from nineteenth-century evolutionary racial models to the cultural relativist paradigm that is now a cornerstone of modern American anthropology. Racist pseudoscience nonetheless reappears to this day in the realm of sports.
Coffee and Community
Coffee and Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coffee and Community write by Sarah Lyon. This book was released on 2011-05-18. Coffee and Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and consumers? This ethnographic analysis of fair-trade coffee analyzes the collective action and combined efforts of fair-trade network participants to construct a new economic reality. Focusing on La Voz Que Clama en el Desierto-a cooperative in San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala-and its relationships with coffee roasters, importers, and certifiers in the United States, Coffee and Community argues that while fair trade does benefit small coffee-farming communities, it is more flawed than advocates and scholars have acknowledged. However, through detailed ethnographic fieldwork with the farmers and by following the product, fair trade can be understood and modified to be more equitable. This book will be of interest to students and academics in anthropology, ethnology, Latin American studies, and labor studies, as well as economists, social scientists, policy makers, fair-trade advocates, and anyone interested in globalization and the realities of fair trade.
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fair Trade and a Global Commodity write by Peter Luetchford. This book was released on 2008. Fair Trade and a Global Commodity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical account of the politics of aid-giving.
