Cultural Anthropology

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
National Dreams Myth, Mystery, and Canadian History Arsenal Pulp Press	As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past—the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National …	Daniel Frances	217	1997	View
On Nostalgia Coach House Books	On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially …	David Berry	161	2020	View
The Biology of Wonder Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science New Society Publishers	In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being …	Andreas Weber	336	2016	View
The Franz Boas Enigma Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences Baraka Books	“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the …	Ludger Müller-Wille	188	2014	View
NEW! The Web of Meaning Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe New Society Publishers	This book lays out an entirely different foundation for a civilization that could lead us sustainably through this century and beyond. It reveals the flaws hidden within the current worldview, …	Jeremy Lent	530	2021	View
From Foreword From: The Franz Boas Enigma View Baraka Books		Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt	5	2014	$0.50 Add
From Introduction The Story of Canada From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	In the introduction the author states that Indians were referred to as looking “Alien Like” and that the “British-born Canadians” are the “Elect of the earth”. …	Daniel Frances	30	1997	$0.90 Add
From Introduction Towards a Poetic Ecology From: The Biology of Wonder View New Society Publishers	In the introduction, Weber discusses attempts to separate emotions and nature in the science of biology, and how modern researchers are rejecting this earlier paradigm.	Andreas Weber	14	2016	$1.40 Add
From Introduction Play It Once Again From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the …	David Berry	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From NEW! The Nameless Uncarved Wood From: The Web of Meaning View New Society Publishers	Traditional Chinese and Greek philosophy of mind is discussed, along with the insights of modern neuroscience. The chapter describes the role of the pre-frontal cortex as the executive function, …	Jeremy Lent	19	2021	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Foraging Societies From: Humans View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, the author examines early hunter-gatherer societies, first looking at Sapiens, Neanderthals and then various peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. He finds …		31	2024	$3.10 Add
From Introduction From: The Franz Boas Enigma View Baraka Books	On Franz Boas, his research, and pivotal role in the history of science and anthropology. His publications provide us two-fold insights: an understanding of the scientific stimuli the young Boas …	Ludger Müller-Wille	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From Making Tracks The Myth of CPR From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	The myth of the CPR as creator of the country is, in fact, as old as the railway itself, which is not surprising given that it was the railway itself which created the myth. The mundane act of …	Daniel Frances	39	1997	$1.17 Add
From The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits: On the Why of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe …	David Berry	21	2020	$2.10 Add
From The Desire for Life From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	The author discusses his scientific education, and how he felt that something was lacking in the overly mechanistic conception of life in biology.	Andreas Weber	19	2016	$1.90 Add
From NEW! The Original AI Animate Intelligence From: The Web of Meaning View New Society Publishers	This chapter links the European loss of seeing the world as connected with the Scientific Revolution, and how that view has continued uninterrupted in Indigenous ways of seeing and knowing. …	Jeremy Lent	26	2021	$2.60 Add