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- Adventures in the Anthropocene by We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself what life is really like for people on the frontline of this new reality.Call Number: GE149 .V56 2014ISBN: 9781571313577Publication Date: 2014-12-09
- The Birth of the Anthropocene by The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics.Call Number: GE149 .D38 2016ISBN: 9780520289970Publication Date: 2016-05-24
- Facing the Anthropocene by Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge.Call Number: GF75 .A64 2016ISBN: 9781583676097Publication Date: 2016-07-01
- The Shock of the Anthropocene by What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history.Call Number: GF75 .B67 2016ISBN: 9781784780791Publication Date: 2016-01-12
- Wildlife in the Anthropocene by In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife.Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781452944289Publication Date: 2015
- Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story by This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century.Call Number: GN284.5 .B47 2017ISBN: 9781426218118Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Homo Deus by Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together.Call Number: CB428 .H36813 2017ISBN: 9780062464316Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- How to Do Archaeology the Right Way by This highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites and the development of sophisticated technologies to record and analyze their contents more rapidly and efficiently. The volume also showcases new dating techniques and methods in excavation, preservation, and curation.Call Number: CC75 .P87 2016ISBN: 9780813061696Publication Date: 2016-01-12
- Sapiens by In Sapiens, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical—and sometimes devastating—breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.Call Number: CB113 .H4 H3713 2015ISBN: 9780062316097Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology by The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in practice. The second edition also reflects major developments of the past decade, including: the rising prominence of mixed methods, the emergence of new technologies, and evolving views on ethnographic writing.Call Number: GN345 .H37 2015ISBN: 9780759120709Publication Date: 2014-07-10
- Myth and Meaning by The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of structuralism and the difference between 'primitive' and 'scientific' thought and shows why Levi-Strauss remains a hugely important intellectual figure.Call Number: GN362 .L47 1979ISBN: 0805237100Publication Date: 1987-01-01
- Works and Lives by The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories—this is magic, that is technology—has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of it as such has been impeded by several considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these, especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on literary questions.Call Number: GN307.7 .G44 1988ISBN: 0804714282Publication Date: 1988-02-01
- Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction by The field of forensic anthropology, a robust, dynamic, and international field, has grown to include interdisciplinary research, continually improving methodology, and globalization of training. The book begins with a historical overview of forensic anthropology and then presents the background and methodology of each specialty area. Designed for readers without previous theory-based or practical physical anthropology course experience, each chapter gives a detailed history and explanation of a particular methodology.Call Number: GN69.8 .F647 2013ISBN: 9781439816462Publication Date: 2012-09-19
- Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology by The book weaves together the discipline's historical development; current field methods for analyzing crime, natural disasters, and human atrocities; an array of laboratory techniques; key case studies involving legal, professional, and ethical issues; and ideas about the future of forensic work--all from a global perspective. This fully revised second edition expands the geographic representation of the first edition by including chapters from practitioners in South Africa and Colombia, and adds exciting new chapters on the International Commission on Missing Persons and on forensic work being done to identify victims of the Battle of Fromelles during World War I.Call Number: GN69.8 .H34 2016ISBN: 9781629583846Publication Date: 2016-08-03
- Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice by This text guides the reader through all aspects of human remains recovery and forensic anthropological analysis, presenting principles at a level that is appropriate for those new to the field, while at the same time incorporating evolutionary, biomechanical, and other theoretical foundations for the features and phenomena encountered in forensic anthropological casework. Attention is focused primarily on the most recent and scientifically valid applications commonly employed by working forensic anthropologists.Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780124172906Publication Date: 2013-12-30
- Color Language and Color Categorization by This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has been a topic of focus for researchers for decades, the contributions here show that many aspects of color language and categorization are as yet unexplored, and that current theories and methodologies which investigate color language are still evolving.Call Number: P120 .C65 C656 2016ISBN: 1443891169Publication Date: 2016
- Endangered Languages: An Introduction by Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this century, taking with them cultural traditions from all over the world, as well as linguistic structures that would have improved our understanding of the universality and variability of human language. The book outlines the various causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language 'safe', highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language, and shows how languages can be revitalized.Call Number: P40.5 .E53 T48 2015ISBN: 9780521684538Publication Date: 2015-04-23
- Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice: A Study of Discourse Analysis and Transcription by This edited collection brings together, for the first time, contributions from different context-language situations on forensic communication, combining theoretical and methodological studies with professional and technical capabilities. In this sense, academic and applied researches in forensic communication represent the scientific starting point of this book, which particularly investigates forensic discourse analysis and transcription of oral data. It makes use of variety of different approaches, including institutional interactions, the analysis of voice, discourse devices, and transcription methods.Call Number: KF8961 .F663 2017ISBN: 9781443895699Publication Date: 2017
- Languages in the World by This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world's languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationship between language and society.Call Number: P130.5 .A53 2016ISBN: 9781118531259Publication Date: 2016-01-19
- Linguistic Anthropology by Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of linguistic anthropology are introduced through a discussion of linguistic diversity, grammar in use, the role of speaking in social interaction, the organisation and meaning of conversational structures, and the notion of participation as a unit of analysis.Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780511810190Publication Date: 2012-06-05
- The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society by The book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant concepts.Call Number: P41 .O94 2016ISBN: 9780190212896Publication Date: 2016-12-01
- The Oxford Handbook of Language Production by The Oxford Handbook of Language Production provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of the complex mechanisms involved in language production. It describes what we know of the computational, linguistic, cognitive, and brain basis of human language production - from how we conceivethe messages we aim to convey, to how we retrieve the right (and sometimes wrong) words, how we form grammatical sentences, and how we assemble and articulate individual sounds.Call Number: P118 .O94 2014ISBN: 9780199735471Publication Date: 2014-05-09
- The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology by The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropologyis a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, featuring contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Each chapter presents a brief historical summary of research in the field and discusses topics and issues of current concern to people doing research in linguistic anthropology.Call Number: P35 .R682 2016ISBN: 9780415834100Publication Date: 2015-09-03
- The Semiotics of Emoji by Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a compensatory universal language. The Semiotics of Emoji looks at what is officially the world's fastest-growing form of communication.Call Number: P99 .D3633 2017ISBN: 9781474281997Publication Date: 2016-11-17
- Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley journeys around the world seeking out languages in peril -- Manx, Mohawk, Boro, Yiddish, and many more. Along the way he reveals delicious linguistic oddities and shows us what is lost when one of the world's six thousand tongues dies -- an irreplaceable worldview and a wealth of practical knowledge. He also examines the forces, from pop culture to creoles to global politics, that threaten to wipe out 90 percent of languages by this century's end.Call Number: P40.5 .L33 A25 2003ISBN: 061823649XPublication Date: 2003-08-06
- The Stories of Linguistics: An Introduction to Language Study Past and Present by What is the nature of human language? How did it originate? How are different languages connected? Exploring over two thousand years of human enquiry, The Stories of Linguistics is an accessible introduction to the individuals, ideas and events that have shaped the field of linguistics. From Herodotus to Chomsky, and from philosophy to neuroscience, Kim Ballard presents a fascinating narrative that brings to life a dynamic subject with a rich history.Call Number: P140 .B35 2016ISBN: 1137000678Publication Date: 2016-10-07
- The Truth about Language: What It Is and Where It Came From by Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident--a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products of those brains) become increasingly complex. Corballis argues that it's time to reconsider those assumptions and that language is not the product of some "big bang" 60,000 years ago, but rather the result of a typically slow process of evolution with roots in elements of grammatical language found much farther back in our evolutionary history.Call Number: P116 .C6714 2017ISBN: 9780226287195Publication Date: 2017-03-29
- Where Is Language? : An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance by Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech? The author argues for a more complex and contextualized understanding of language across this range of disciplines, engaging with key issues, including orality, literacy, narrative, ideology, performance and the human communities in which these take place.Call Number: P116 .F56 2015ISBN: 9781472590923Publication Date: 2015-09-24
- Why Don't They Learn English? : Separating Fact from Fallacy in the U.S. Language Debate by This compelling book examines the often cited but poorly supported claims that immigrants fail to learn English, and the mistaken belief that immigrant communities cling to their heritage languages. The author reveals that, on the contrary, English is being learned at a rapid pace while heritage languages are disappearing quickly from family use. She shows us how current assumptions have a pervasive influence on language policy in the United States. Ultimately, the author argues for an educational approach that effectively embraces immigrant communities as they tackle the obstacles to language learning in the United States.Call Number: P119.32 .U6 T78 2001ISBN: 0807740977Publication Date: 2001-09-01
- Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, in fact, as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it, to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language.Call Number: P327 .S695 2017ISBN: 9781101870945Publication Date: 2017-03-14
- Words on the Move: Why English Won't- and Can't- Sit Still (like, literally) by McWhorter takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it. Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. But the truth is different and a lot less scary.Call Number: P40.5 .L54 M39 2016ISBN: 9781627794718Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Writing Systems by The cultures of the world have chosen different ways to make spoken language visible and permanent. The book incorporates topics which have emerged since the first edition (such as electronic techniques for encoding the world's scripts), together with new findings about established topics, including the ultimate historical origin of our alphabet. The book is written so as to be accessible to those with no prior knowledge of any writing systems other than our own.Call Number: P211 .S36 2015ISBN: 9781781791035Publication Date: 2015-01-01
- American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment by Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government's rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native-US relations throughout the nineteenth century's removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian communities.Call Number: E93 .B633 2015ISBN: 9781628461961Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Biographical Dictionary of Indians of the Americas by The BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS is the only reference work to contain biographies on Indians of the entire western hemisphere. This two volume set contains bibliographical entries after each biography for further in-depth study. The work contains over 2000 biographies and 900 photographs. It is the definitive reference work on Indian biography ever published.Call Number: E89 .B56 1991 v.1-2ISBN: 0937862290Publication Date: 1998-07-01
- Introduction to Physical Anthropology by With a focus on the big picture of human evolution, the book helps readers master the basic principles of the subject and arrive at an understanding of the human species and its place in the biological world. This book continues to keep pace with changes in the field, with new material on genetic technology and other topics reflecting recent scientific findings.Call Number: GN60 .I57 2014ISBN: 9781285061979Publication Date: 2013-02-20
- The Anthropologist byCall Number: DVD 765 - Carter Music Resources CenterISBN: 971550946Publication Date: 2016"At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters' perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change wrought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers and rising tides."--Publisher website.
- The Linguists byCall Number: DVD 766 - Carter Music Resources CenterISBN: 931346928Publication Date: 2008"[The film] joins David Harrison and Gregory Anderson, scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India and Bolivia, David and Greg's resolve is tested by the very forces stifling languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. The scientists must overcome their own fears and preconceived notions to draw speakers from decades of silence. Their journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and communities at stake"--Container.
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- Anthropological Museum Digital Collection (University of Queensland)The digital collection comprises over 5000 images from the ethnographic collection and 1500 images from the photographic collection with more being added as the project continues. The ethnographic collection is made up of over 19,000 items including contemporary art and artefacts from Australia and the Pacific as well as Asia, Africa and the American continents.
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- Indian Peoples of the Great Northern PlainsThe Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's. In 1998, the images were digitized and drawn from the library collections of three of the Montana State University campuses (Billings, Bozeman and Havre), the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, and Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana.
- Museum of Anthropology (University of British Columbia)Research the 45,000 objects that are in the museum’s collection. Other activities include exploring the globe and locating the museum’s objects on a map of the world.