Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans. Visual anthropology, which is usually considered to be a part of social anthropology, can mean both ethnographic film (where photography, film, and new media are used for study) as well as the study of "visuals", including art, visual images, cinema etc. …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …
ranging across so many other subject areas from anthropology and economics to media studies and sociology … disciplines – economics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media, management, English literature – rather … encounters (familiar from disciplines such as anthropology) with individuals who, completely unprompted …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …
political science (interests), and sociology and anthropology (institutions) into its analysis. Hood, Rothstein … disciplines, such as psy- chology, sociology, and anthropology. While these disciplines make important contributions …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English
“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …
with Honours in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. As such, most of my experi- ence with archaeology …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English
Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …
10 James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . … sciences, HIV/AIDS research, sexuality studies, anthropology and ethnography, sociology, historical studies …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
history, religious studies, sociology, or anthropology. I focus on the sacred for (at least) two reasons: …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …
field notes and later training in sociology and anthropology in California helped him move from a thin to …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
compelling temporal critique has been elaborated in anthropology, historiography, philosophy, experimental video …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter Anthropology Upside Down Richard Cavell McGill-Queen’s … The explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter : anthropology upside down / Richard Cavell. Names: Cavell … intellectual foolishness currently popular in academic anthropology. Edmund Snow CarpenterAcknowledgments ix Note … Magazine; Culture and Communication 2 Media Anthropology 33 The Cybernetic Challenge; Technologies of … Connecting Patterns; Collecting Butterflies; Writing Anthropology 7 Northern Preoccupations 172 Witnessing the …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …
together notions from evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, history, and art. I construct a …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 24 September 2024 English
Other major supporters through the of community, pulsing transition of the Institute from Nonprofit to with original thinkers Community Prosperity included the McConnell and life-changing teach- Foundation, The Calgary Foundation, …
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology Bachelor of Arts, Sociology How might we leverage …