Títulos en Antropología

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.

Il nostro desiderio è proporre dei punti di vista altrui per un nuovo umanesimo. Non torneremo più alla normalità del pre corona virus, perché quella normalità ha creato tutto questo ma non può esserci un reale cambiamento sociale senza un reale cambiamento interiore, altrimenti avremo solo aggiunto le mascherine ai paraocchi.

Umani? è un podcast Audible Original condotto da Paola Maugeri e composto da dieci riflessioni con conoscitori dell'animo umano e pensatori fuori dal coro per riflettere sugli aspetti fondanti e fondamentali di ogni essere senziente.

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet. On one side the alt-right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurk behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? “Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint...

Jared Diamond comenzó su carrera académica como naturalista: observaba a los pájaros y deducía reglas de su comportamiento. Cuando cambió de foco y empezó a estudiar organismos complejos como las sociedades humanas, no cambió de método, y en este breve libro explica cuánto se puede aprender a través de este procedimiento.

It is likely not terribly surprising that surfers like to party. The 1960-'70s image, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday, was one of mild outlaws. Tanned boys who refused to grow up, spending their days drinking beer and smoking joints on the beach in between mindless hours in the water. As the surf brands accidentally morphed into a multimillion- then multibillion-dollar industry beginning in the 1980s, however, the derelict portrait began to harm business.

Enter the inner world of the Brahma Kumaris through this immersive and dynamic audiobook that blends anthropological insight with a deeply personal spiritual journey. Drawing on years of fieldwork and lived experience, Tamasin Ramsay explores purity not as a static moral ideal, but as a living, evolving discipline—one that actively shapes identity, relationships, and inner freedom.

Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible in an age where we take comfort for granted. But what if we could regain some of our lost evolutionary strength by simulating the environmental conditions of our forbears? Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney takes up the challenge to find out: Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology?

Before grammar, stories, or history, there was pointing. Grunting. Guesswork. And somehow, from that, we built language. This isn’t a textbook. It’s the story of how humans learned to name the world, how we stitched together meaning from noise, and how the system we invented ended up running us. From cave mouths to cuneiform, slang to syntax, sacred scripts to AI chatbots, this book tells the full arc of the original human software: invented, forgotten, rediscovered, and now automated. This Is a Rock doesn’t teach you how to talk. It shows you how we figured out that we could.

Weaving together cultural history with intimate interviews, Invisible Illness upholds the experiences of those living with complex illness to expose the failures of the American healthcare system—and how we can do better.

In diesen pointierten Texten setzt sich Nietzsche mit der Rolle des Künstlers auseinander: mit Eitelkeit, Einsamkeit, Schöpferkraft, Selbstzweifeln – und dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Inspiration und Selbstüberschätzung. Die Aphorismen sind scharf, klug und bis heute provozierend aktuell – ein psychologisches Porträt des schöpferischen Menschen und ein kritischer Blick auf die Kulturszene seiner Zeit.

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.

The field of folklore studies is over two centuries old, and it's full of amazing insights about human behavior, creativity, and community. Folklore studies is as interdisciplinary as it gets, squished somewhere between anthropology and linguistics and religious studies and comparative literature and more. It’s all about the informal human interactions, the million tiny acts and stories and beliefs and arts that function as social glue even if they seem beneath notice.

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice.

Ireland – North and South – has sustained significant change in the last 100 years, accelerating at the end of the 20th century with the legalization of contraception, divorce, gay marriage, the end of the ‘Troubles’, and freedom to choose abortion and reproductive autonomy. This collection of specially commissioned essays tells the stories of cloth, clothing, textiles and materials that have been actually or symbolically stained by blood or other bodily fluids in Ireland’s last 100 years.

No mundo moderno temos o dever de ser belos, magros, ter cabelos lisos e parecer "naturais" diante do espelho, de nós mesmos, diante dos outros. E, para conquistar mais saúde, juventude e beleza, os caminhos científicos e industriais não cessam de se multiplicar. O Brasil atualmente é o segundo país no mundo em número de cirurgias plásticas, só perde para os Estados Unidos. Homens e mulheres em busca da perfeição corporal são cortados, costurados, espetados por agulhas, queimados por raios laser, besuntados e massageados com cremes.

Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of 48, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in Los Angeles to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986, she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces.

From tribal rituals to televised inaugurations, from thrones to algorithms, politics has survived not through brute force but through spectacle, myth, and symbols. Georges Balandier called it the theater of power. This audiobook asks what happens when that theater moves to screens, platforms, and code.

مجموعة من القصص القصيرة تتناول عددًا من النماذج البشرية المقهورة التي تقبع بقاع المجتمع لحاجاتها وفقرها فهي تُروى لاثنتي عشرة سيدة يعملن كخادمات أو مربيات بالبيوت ولكنها لا تتناول طبيعة عملهن كخادمات فقط ولكن طبيعة حياتهن والتي تشمل حاجاتهن ورغباتهن، كاشفة ما يتعرض لە المجتمع من تحرش أو تعدٍّ وهن فاقدات للحقوق كبشر.

Il rapporto che i gatti hanno instaurato con gli esseri umani circa 10.000 anni fa non ha niente a che vedere con l'amicizia: noi e i gatti non parliamo la stessa lingua, non ci capiamo ma ci piacciamo, a tratti non ci sopportiamo ma non possiamo stare lontani gli uni dagli altri. Partendo dalle interazioni quotidiane con i suoi gatti Esther e Toshiro, diversissimi in tutto ma ugualmente nevrotici, Matteo Bordone racconta e analizza la relazione che abbiamo creato con queste miagolanti palle di pelo.