Títulos en Antropología

Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization - the Middle East - is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate associations with humans.

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a...

A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.

This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world.

In this comprehensive survey, updated for this new edition, Henderson explores the entire Maya cultural tradition, from the earliest traces of settlement through the period of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. His wide-ranging account treats diverse aspects of the Maya world, from religion and philosophy to the environments of the various Maya peoples, using deciphered Maya texts to reconstruct the ancient societies.

Acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall's Introducing the Ancient Greeks is the first book to offer a synthesis of the entire ancient Greek experience, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms of the sixteenth century BC to the final victory of Christianity over paganism in AD 391. Each of the ten chapters visits a different Greek community at a different moment during the twenty centuries of ancient Greek history.

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces listeners to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time.

Ancient Greece first coined the concept of democracy, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker - from Plato and Aristotle onward - was ambivalent toward or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: The elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece, there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of antidemocratic thought.

Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each one telling itself a story...

First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return - arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

I vaccini? Provocano l'autismo. Le scie degli aerei? Veleno per alterare il clima. Gli attacchi dell'11 settembre? Una messinscena degli americani. La Luna? Non ci siamo mai andati. La Terra? È piatta. Ciò che fino a ieri era considerato da tutti vero e accertato, all'improvviso viene messo in discussione, mentre in molti ambiti della vita i fatti perdono sempre più valore a favore di credenze irrazionali, pregiudizi e cospirazioni.

Gli insegnamenti che arrivano dal Giappone sono più attuali che mai, anche in Occidente. Ma in cosa consiste esattamente lo spirito giapponese? Wa significa armonia, ma come tutte le parole giapponesi evoca molto di più. Wa è infatti tutto ciò che è mite, sereno e moderato, ma è anche tutto ciò che è giapponese. Wa è un prefisso, che come un sigillo si applica sulle cose e sui concetti. Tramite Wa, il Giappone ci insegna la sua più grande lezione: che la bellezza, la gioia e il senso civile si costruiscono con grande impegno.

Karl Eskelund og hans trofaste rejsemakker og hustru, Chi-Yun, er draget afsted til Filippinerne for at udforske landets utallige og utroligt alsidige små og store øer. Turen begynder i hovedstaden Manilla, der i 1963 var en af de farligste byer i verden. Derfra besøger de blandt andet nogle primitive øsamfund, og undervejs møder de både pygmæer og hovedjægere. Karl Johannes Eskelund (1918-1972) var en dansk forfatter og journalist, der skrev en lang række reportager og bøger om sine rejser rundt om i verden. Han tilbragte en stor del af sit liv i Kina og giftede sig i 1939 med sin kine

Da den danske eventyrer og rejseskribent Karl Eskelund besøger Nepal i 1960‘erne, er det som at komme til et magisk sted fra en helt anden tid. De mennesker, han møder, tager ham med op i smukke bjergområder og ned i mytiske dale. De introducerer ham for tiggere såvel som for gudinder, og han får endda også lov til at møde en konge. Han kunne aldrig glemme Nepal efter denne rejse, og det samme gælder måske for læseren af denne bog. Karl Johannes Eskelund (1918-1972) var en dansk forfatter og journalist, der skrev en lang række reportager og bøger om sine rejser rundt om i verden. Han ti

Le lezioni di Paolo Crepet, uno dei più noti e illustri psichiatri e sociologi italiani, sono un'occasione di riflessione su alcuni dei temi più dibattuti della società in cui viviamo: dalle dipendenze alla violenza di genere, dalla disoccupazione giovanile alle nuove tecnologie, dai "millennials" alle famiglie arcobaleno. L'autore stesso le definisce "appunti per un viaggio in cui ciascuno di noi ha un costante bisogno di orientarsi".

"Menschen sind halt so..." Der Mensch ist von Natur aus egoistisch und faul. Generell ist er darauf aus, den größten Nutzen für sich selbst herauszuschlagen und bringt seine beste Leistung nur unter Konkurrenzdruck. So zumindest die herrschende Meinung in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik - mit weitreichenden Folgen, die wir alle zu spüren bekommen: zum Beispiel in der verfehlten Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik oder in einer zunehmend kontrollierten Arbeitswelt. Das Menschenbild im Kapitalismus ist nichts weiter als eine von der Wirtschaft verbreitete Mär.

Jenseits aller Debatten um seine Herkunft oder die Lokalisierung Trojas ist Homer der erste Autor Europas in einem emphatischen Sinne...

Nudge - so heißt die Formel, mit der man andere dazu bewegt, die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Denn Menschen verhalten sich von Natur aus nicht rational. Nur mit einer Portion List können sie dazu gebracht werden, vernünftig zu handeln. Aber wie schafft man das, ohne sie zu bevormunden? Wie erreicht man zum Beispiel, dass sie sich um ihre Altervorsorge kümmern, umweltbewusst leben oder sich gesund ernähren? Darauf gibt Nudge die Antwort. Das Konzept hat bereits viele Entscheidungsträger überzeugt, darunter US-Präsident Barack Obama.