David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the ...

This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for ...

In modern times, any claims about the world require one thing: evidence. One cannot claim the world is flat without proof, nor can one claim it is round without proof. In that regard, the most common ...

Much anthropological literature regards 'knowledge' as an unproblematic accumulation of what people claim to know about the world, their social relations, cosmology, and practices. The flip-side to ...

In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social ...

At Case Western Reserve, we harness expertise within our department and across the university to train you in traditional and newly emerging anthropological theories and methods that integrate work ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue. Publisher Information The University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range ...

Blakey, Michael National Endowment for the Humanities Professor Office: Washington Hall 112 Phone: 757-221-7681 Email: [[mlblak]] Areas of Specialization: Biological anthropology, biohistory, ...

At academic conferences in China, scholars who belong to my field — business anthropology — are still few and far between. Not long ago, I and several thousand other anthropologists from across the ...