{"product_id":"holistic-anthropology-9780857451521","title":"Holistic Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is very much a matter of perspective as to which is dominant at any moment. The perspective adopted by the contributors to this volume is that some anthropologists have, over the last decade or so, been paying considerable attention to developments in the study of social and biological evolution and of material culture, and that this has brought social, material cultural and biological anthropologists closer to each other and closer to allied disciplines such as archaeology and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA more eclectic anthropology once characteristic of an earlier age is thus re-emerging. The new holism does not result from the merging of sharply distinguished disciplines but from among anthropologists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This book…presents a powerful case for anthropology that provides a full and whole account of the contemporary world, as well as some dilemmas…Taken together, the different approaches and case studies presented in this volume amount to an important and refreshing perspective…showing how contemporary social anthropology, with [its] ‘interdisciplinary turn’, offers explanations that can help us understand the interplay of culture, society, biology, genetics, and ecology.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  JRAI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"...provides some fine examples of ways that anthropology can capture and hold valuable ground in the borderlands between scientific and humanistic inquiry..an excellent volume... remarkable... for its systematic use of examples such as ethnomedicine, landscape studies, and cognitive anthropology to demonstrate the immensely rich ways in which a cultural\u003cbr\u003e \torientation can meet various kinds of science.\"\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cb\u003e·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews in Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of figures and tables\u003cbr\u003e \tList of contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Emergence and convergence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Parkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Bioculturalism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStanley J. Ulijaszek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The biological in the social: evolutionary approaches to human behaviour\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRobin Dunbar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Domesticating the landscape, producing crops and reproducing society in Amazonia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLaura Rival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The biological in the cultural: the fi ve agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElisabeth Hsu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e On the social, the biological and the political: revisiting Beatrice Blackwood’s research and teaching\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLaura Peers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHoward Morphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Holism, intelligence and time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChris Gosden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Movement, knowledge and description\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTim Ingold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e The evolution and history of religion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHarvey Whitehouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Parkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038903697751,"sku":"9780857451521","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451521.jpg?v=1750941875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holistic-anthropology-9780857451521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}