(Part 2) Best anthropology books according to redditors
We found 221 Reddit comments discussing the best anthropology books. We ranked the 108 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
> they can't give less shits what a small population of Chinese emigrants do in another country.
Actually, the government has been supporting the takeover of diaspora media outlets around the world by party-friendly businesses, and does many other things that signal it really does "give shits what a small population of Chinese emigrants do in another country":
>https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/loyalty-through-links-and-control-long-history-chinese-diaspora-diplomacy
>https://www.amazon.com/Qiaowu-Extra-Territorial-Policies-Overseas-Chinese/dp/9004272275
And the source of info is listed as 'The Boomerang Information Book'. Which, apparently, exists.
O Zygmunt Bauman chama isso de liquidez. Vários fenomenos da vida moderna estão ficando dessa maneira, não é só relacionamentos. Tem alguns livros que ele aborda isso.
Se tiver interesse recomendo o Amor Líquido do autor supracitado.
Também acho isso triste e bizarro, parece cada vez mais difícil se conectar e manter uma conexão com pessoas novas. É evidente cada vez o interesse maior das pessoas transmitirem uma falsa realidade nas redes sociais do que realmente terem laços e experiencias duradouras entre si.
Mas como tudo da vida humana, creio que será somente uma fase obscura do período que tivemos para nos adaptar com os moldes sociais da nossa época. Ficamos inquietos na ociosidade, e coisas que seriam consideradas falta de respeito/consideração antigamente hoje em dia não recebem esse filtro.
É difícil fazer uma síntese de todas as nuances que causam isso, mas uma das maiores é claramente a tecnologia que ainda usamos de maneira perigosamente inconsequente.
Disapponting. You once again make random assumptions, respond to a post with empirical data (and links to the source given) with a lot of rhetoric.
Also maybe you didn't read what I posted (or the links) or you are not familiar with history (I say this in a non insulting manner)
>Japan and Germany are good examples to show that colonialism isn't the universal answer to the wealth of nations.
If anything Japan is a classic case that proves the wealth transfer theory.
India's GDP per capita in 1885 was $ 567, Japan's was $ 836. A 30% difference at best. Around this time the Japanese consolidation of the home islands is over and it's colonisation is starting. Around 1900 the conquest of Korea begins and is complete by 1905. Japan's GDP in 1906 is @ 1,200 (80% increase). India's GDP is static so the gap widens. The transfer of wealth begins and by 1915 Japan's GDP is $ 1,700 (it has doubled in 30 years). It expands again after Manchuria is conquered in 1930. By 1943 (the peak) Japan's GDP was at $ 2,822 ( an increase of close to 3.5 times in just 60 years).
Tell me how Japan was not a colonising state and how it did not transfer massive amounts of wealth from China and Korea.
Germany also had a decent sized colonial empire (Google "Scramble for Africa"), but yes, this is one of the major countries that did not create using wealth transfer. It did make up for it in WW2 though.
>Are you trying to suggest that America's wealth is built on the 'genocide' of native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s ?
Selective reading again.
>>America is an exception in the sense that it was a vast untapped land with massive resources for the taking and hence did not necessitate a wealth transfer to a mother country. The wealth transfer was internal.
You can take from this what you will. Though wholesale genocide of Native Americans is a reality. Are you denying this?
>On the flip side there are countries like Spain and Portugal that had extensive colonies but aren't doing very well.
Your point? I kind of buffers my point. That this wealth transfer boosted the wealth of nations by crazy proportions. Not all of them could hold onto it and make the transition into the modern era very well.
>India didn't really have anything comparable to the Medici banks in a similar time-frame and there definitely wasn't anything comparable to publicly traded companies like the Dutch East India Company at any point of time, or bond markets and stock markets in general.
Different markets, different evolution. That being said according to The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade (sorry I only have a physical copy, can't find an online source), banks in the Mughal empire (after the Adesha system) functioned exactly like the Medici banks you seem to so admire (and I do too, the evolution of Renaissance banks and their power is fascinating to read). Jagat Seth was a well known banker who bankrolled Mughal empires.
You talk about bankers funding kings - that is precisely what Shantidas Jhaveri did. He and a consortium of bankers in Surat loaned the money that enabled Aurangazeb to win his war against Murad. Interestingly Murad himself borrowed money from the exact same bankers and when he was beheaded by Aurangazeb, the bankers made Aurangazeb pay up on behalf of Murad.
You should learn more about Indian history - it is fascinating and you will find that we weren't as backward at any point in our history till we are now (or after 1800). Another source I have also talks extensively about Hindu (Gujarati) banking houses dominating trade during the Mughal era. They all used the same Hundi system to conduct trade.
Interestingly - the system here was free from government interference. You could say pure play capitalism at work. While later banks and public companies in Europe had state banking but I digress and will stick to the topic at hand.
About Scandinavian countries or Argentina, I really cannot say. I have next to zero knowledge about these.
>The Mauryan Empire was indeed great but that was a very very long time ago. What's important is that after the Guptas, India was on a steady gradual decline, accentuated by the Muslim and British invasions.
Are you a 'v invanted zero' brain dead right wing? This is literally the most absurd thing to say.
The South of India had the Chola's reign supreme till 1400 (ok the Pandyas took over sometime after 1200). After this you had the Viajayanagara empire (famed for it's wealth and advancement...the city of Hampi even overawed the first European to visit it). In the north after a brief period of chaos from 1200 to 1500 when you had the 5 Delhi dynasties, the Mughals took over.
India really prospered under the Mughals. It hardly went through some 'dark period'. Sure, you had the tyrannical despots like Aurangazeb, but even they left things well alone when it came to commerce & trade. They ruled very well and India went through a period of peace & prosperity till the reign of Bahadur Shah I. The wealth of India under the Moghuls is famed world over and this is in fact what attracted the European traders in the first place. We had some really gifted Emperors (Humayun, Akbar the Great, Empress Noor Jahan, Shah Jahan).
>The Cholas went to South East Asia. This happened in 1025 AD, you can't really compare something so long ago with the age of discovery and exploration.
My point is we were advanced enough to launch seaborne invasions using upto 25 ships a 1000 years ago. Sea navigation clearly was not unknown to us.
I still cannot get over the fact that you think Muslim invasions accentuated the decline - fuck man, after the Gupta's India had it's pan India empire under the Mughals and one of history's finest emperors- Akbar! India's decline was actually arrested by the Mughals. They stopped the invasions from across the Khyber. Stopped internecine war in the country and set up a huge, prosperous, wealthy empire in which science, architecture, art all grew.
>Having access to guns doesn't really put you on par with the full might of European invaders. It seems very unlikely that Indian kings had access to the same kind of economic resources Europeans did (bond markets for instance)
Even as late as 1947- the very minor Nizam of Hyderabad was the amongst the top 5 richest men in the world. A temple in the tiny province of Travancore unearthed a billion dollars worth of assets.
Also your assertion is very very incorrect. According to Angus Maddison (and a lot of other sources on medieval India) India had 1/3rd of the global GDP as late as in the 1700's. All that wealth quite literally belonged to one dynasty. Unless you have some source to back your claim up, I am going to go with what peer reviewed, published sources say. That India was enormously wealthy till the 1700 at the latest.
>We had whimsical kings with very little devolution of power that constantly fought amongst themselves. After the dissolution of the Gupta empire, even the concept of India did not exist, there were just small warring kingdoms. They weren't helpless "peace loving" hindu kings that were unfairly exploited by muslim invaders. After the Guptas there was very little progress in science, technology, engineering and even economics.
You really need to read up on Indian history.
After the fall of the Gupta's you did have a period of flux that lasted about 300 years (disregarding Harsha's brief empire). By the way this flux was only in the North of India. The Cholas dominated and held huge parts of South and East India. In the north (centre) the Chalukyas took over. The Pala's of Bengal controlled most of East India and parts of North India.
If anything these rulers showed great unity when a South Indian empire allied with a Rajastani empire and fought against the Arabs in the Battle of Rajasthan.
If anything till 1600, Europe was in shambles and what you just said would describe Europe more accurately. Italy was...a bunch of 4-5 city states warring against each other. Byzantium was on the decline. Germany was a bunch of 10 major duchies fighting each other. Iberia was being conquered by the Moors and then reconquered by the Catholics.
>After the Guptas there was very little progress in science, technology, engineering and even economics.
This seriously needs to go on /r/badhistory. I am not being insulting - seriously read up on Indian history. I have referred a few books, but if you want I could make more recommendations specific to any period you might want.
>The main problem with your reading of history is that you completely ignore everything after the Guptas, or everything after roughly around the 1st millennium AD. And a failure to acknowledge the inherent rot in Indian civilization for almost 1000 years
Am sorry, but you don't seem to have even a basic understanding of Indian history and you might have to seriously fix that lacuna if you are interested in History that is.
Recommended reading.
Interestingly, women in Japan also do not get many menopausal symptoms that we recognize in the West. Many menopausal symptoms could also be a hysterical thing.
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Check out this book. It covers a lot of basic topics (ranging from vegetarianism to reincarnation to meditation to oneness and inner divinity) about Hinduism, and might help get you pointed in the right direction.
As for my attempt at answering your questions:
>Is it required to believe in a supernatural force/God?
No! I sure don't. I do believe in the the atman, the inner divinity held and shared by all people and things, which exists as the brahman, the oneness shared by the universe. I am not truly different from you; we share the same broad hopes, fears, and struggles in our quest to answer life's questions. So deities like Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva (and the hundreds of other little-g gods in traditional Hinduism) are simply manifestations of ideals of this common atman we worship to remind ourselves of our duties and morals. I don't believe in a big-g God that created everything. The scientific method answers those questions for me. Hinduism is a method I follow to answer the types of questions that may fall outside the scope of science.
> Do most followers believe in the stories as a literal interpretation? Was it originally intended to be?
Depends on who you talk to. My mother does, my father might, and I don't. If you go to a village in rural India you'll probably find most of them believe the stories literally. Can we ever really know for sure, given the millennium-spanning history of Hinduism? Probably not. They do contain excellent, generally timeless examples of what is considered good human behavior, though. Obviously times, morals, and cultures change, but I think characters like Rama or Arjuna or Krishna are still examples of ideals to look to.
>What is the purpose of prayer?
I think this is a question best suited for you to answer yourself. If/when you pray, why do (or don't) you do it?
The fourth question I'm not going to answer, because I honestly can't help you there. I have a rudimentary understanding, but considering I don't meditate regularly, if at all, I'm just as ignorant on the subject as you.
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Here are a few books which kind of explain my pessimistic position:
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you may want to check out The Anthropology of Freedom if this topic interests you.
are you free if you are born in a giant pit in the ground in which you can do anything you want to, but with no ladder to get out?
true freedom requires the scaffolding necessary to climb to your highest aspirations.
If you love playing the violin and want to become the world's best violin player, you will need someone who wants to make violins, someone who wants to chop wood to provide the violin maker with material, and a violin teacher to give you lessons. without that scaffolding you cannot be free to become the best violin player you can be. not to mention the things everyone needs to be free--freedom from violence or abuse, socialization and social relationships, food, shelter, water, etc... all of which are necessary for you to be alive and psychologically healthy enough to be able to pursue your passions and desires.
like lil wayne says:
"But they talked that freedom at us
And didn't even leave a ladder, damn"
> How wise of you to point out all of the things “we don’t know anything about.” At least you’ve studied enough Jesus history to masquerade as a know-it-all.
Thank you for that kind remark. I don't think I've studied any less than the author and even if I had, your comment is an ad hominem attack that lacks substance.
> What is your point, to not engage in historiography in the least because none of us were there and therefore cannot “know anything without a shadow of a doubt.”
No, that is not my point, which is why I said nothing of the kind.
> Or would you be satisfied with verbose prefaces before every scholarly conclusion, e.g., “Now as a warning, we don’t absolutely 100% KNOW that there was a Q source because we can’t know really anything about history because we weren’t there, but the evidence leads us to conclude Matthew and Luke shared an undiscovered source because of x, y and z. Now of course we don’t KNOW this, be warned.”
Funny you should mention that. Pick up any biography about Jesus from the last 50 years, and you'll find exactly this remark in chapter one or two. For instance, check out Sanders and Crossan who are mentioned in the article from the OP.
All Jesus biographers start by pointing out we don't know anything and we have no reliable sources. What I have a problem with is what they say next: let's ignore that and pretend that what we want to believe about Jesus is actually true. Mind you, this has only been the case since the 1980s or so, after a century of serious research turned up exactly nothing.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many different and contradictory historical Jesuses? Albert Schweitzer put it something like this: each generation invents their own Jesus which reflects how they see themselves.
In the absence of evidence, you can make up what you want but that is not scholarship. The correct scholarly position would be: we don't know if there actually was an historical Jesus.
> If you ever write a history paper I would expect multitudinous warnings about every little thing we don’t know.
I once wrote a paper about Mormon history. It seems I did just fine because it was actually published in a book.
Is there an ebook of this: https://www.amazon.com/Originary-Hypothesis-Minimal-Proposal-Humanistic/dp/1888570369 ?
Well I would figure out what attracts you to the field in the first place.
Is it the diving? Are you primarily interested in developments in nautical technology or are you more interested in anthropological questions? Do you want to be a professor?
I would strongly recommend reading as much literature as you can do get a grasp on the field as it currently exists. Here are a couple books that I would recommend starting with.
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http://www.amazon.com/Shipwreck-Anthropology-Richard-A-Gould/dp/1938645049
Anthropolgists would beg to disagree.
> the townsfolk kinda use the word witch with anybody who has knowledge of the oral folklore (which of course included spells as well as epics and stories) and herbal stuff (which was of course seen as partially magical decades ago)
PBMA is more oriented towards the herbal medicine part of that, from my experience. Again, I never met anyone who was claimed to be a witch, so knowledge of oral tradition never really entered into the picture. However, I'm interested in that kind of thing as an anthropology major and would love to have a chance to sit down and talk to a babaylan (not sure if you know that word but it's a Kinaray-a term for a sort of storyteller/healer/mystic type of person, similar to how you described your grandma).
"Gahum" means the same thing in Hiligaynon, so no need to attempt a translation on my behalf. I know it's translated as "power" by foreign missionaries and such, as in "ang gahum sang Balaan nga Espiritu" (I know because I was one of those missionaries a year and a half ago), but from what I understand it's supposed to refer to more intangible power than something actually tangible, making it more difficult to translate accurately.
As for "gaba", I haven't heard that one before but I'll have to take a look at another one of my various books and see if the author mentions it at all.
NOTE: You'll have to come by my dorm to pick any of these up (its on campus, and isn't inconveniently located, but I don't want to share where I live unnecessarily. I'll be on campus starting on the 5th of September. Please pay in cash, and no bills larger than twenties.
ISBN-13: 978-0-495-89753-8
ISBN-10: 0-495-89753-1
2010 Paperback Version
Amazon Link- It is the Second Paperback Version on the list(http://www.amazon.com/Call-Write-Brief-John-Trimbur/dp/0495897531/ref=tmm_pap_img_popover?ie=UTF8&qid=1314814988&sr=1-1)
Price Range:$30-$50
Class: ENGL 3301- I'm pretty sure this is the textbook for all Advanced Writing in the Discipline Courses (or at the very least, for the ones that are not for a specific discipline.
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-353104-5
ISBN-10: 0-07-353104-9
2009 Paperback Version
Amazon Link-(http://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Humanity-seventh-Text-Only/dp/B005GAF4IC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314816064&sr=1-2)
Price Range:$30-$50
Class: ANTH 1101-The course was an Honors course titled People and Cultures. A new edition of this book appears to be about to release on the 16th of September- I doubt the differences will be major, and given that classes begin on the 7th, its possible any courses using this text will use the current edition.
ISBN-13: 978-0-87893-225-2
ISBN-10: NA
2009 Paperback Version
Amazon Link-(http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Behavior-Evolutionary-Approach-Ninth/dp/0878932259/ref=tmm_pap_img_popover?ie=UTF8&qid=1314816336&sr=1-1)
Price Range:$20-$40
Class: BIOL 2297
*Notes: On purchasing this book, I was informed that unlike other texts, I could not return it to the University bookstore. I have kept it in good condition, but it is not designed as sturdily as most textbooks.
ISBN-13: 978-0-495-09023-6
ISBN-10: 0-495-09023-9
2009 Paperback Version
Amazon Link-(http://www.amazon.com/Living-Ethics-Michael-Minch/dp/0495090239/ref=tmm_pap_title_popover?ie=UTF8&qid=1314816795&sr=1-1)
Price Range:$10-$30
Class: PHIL 1102
*Notes: A newer edition has been released. The Professor I had this class with does not seem like the type to demand the newest edition, and I wouldn't be surprised if he intentionally requested that students have the older edition. However, it may not be what you're looking for. If another Professor is teaching it, or this book is required for another course, good luck to you.
hey, looking for these two books
I only require the ebook version, not pdf
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQLFQIO
https://www.amazon.com/Nervous-System-Michael-Taussig-ebook-dp-B009E3F0LI/dp/B009E3F0LI
So for my undergrad thesis, I studied the correlates between hemochromatosis and multiple sclerosis from an anthropological lens, and basically spent two semesters writing a 50 page literature review on the topic. I think undergrad theses should stick to a literature review, as if you want to carry that research on into your masters you have a strong base to work with, and if not you have done serious research into a topic, giving you a plethora of skills that can be transferred into any masters, regardless if that masters is thesis or course based.
Also, based on what you're interested in, check this book out. I read it for a class, and I think it would connect really well with what you are looking to do.
Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0199797080/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_uqNAyb0JRT5N4
That's not the book you are looking for.
This is the perfect book for you.
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Have you guys checked his T levels? Do that ASAP. If they are normal, then there is something else seriously wrong. Depression, prostate, something.
Men are like animals, if they don't want food or sex, they are sick.
Check this book out:
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