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Klassiske og moderne antropologiske tænkere
Klassiske og moderne antropologiske tænkere er en indføring i den særlige tænkning, som antropologien har fostret. Antropologien voksede ud af en stigende interesse for at forstå …
The Last of Its Kind
How an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinctionThe great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that …
Nature and Society
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent …
Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
Following centuries of debate about "e;nature and nurture"e; the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture …
Beyond Boundaries
Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few …
Anthropology of Iceland
The Anthropology of Iceland presents the first perspectives on Icelandic anthropology from both Icelandic and foreign anthropologists. The thirteen essays in this volume are …
Discrepancies between defined and actualized ecotourism
The Textual Life of Savants
First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specifically, the understanding of …
Nature, Culture, and Society
Life is currently one of the most active zones of politics and economic production, as biological material is increasingly the subject of engineering, banking, reproduction, and …
Travelling Passions
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early …
Hans Jonathan
Historien om Hans Jonathan er både den forunderlige fortælling om en ung mand fra den caribiske ø St. Croix, der i 1784 fødes ind i slaveri og blot 43 år senere ender sine dage i …
The Human Age
The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in which human …