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Olhar as cidades e a vida urbana numa perspectiva etnográfica constitui o desafio deste livro. Compreender as cidades de dentro, de baixo, a partir de urna relação próxima entre quem vê e quem é observado permite ir ao encontro do que de mais incerto e surpreendente as cidades nos têm para oferecer polícias, associações, culturas juvenis, práticas de lazer, territorios psicotrópicos, identidades étnicas, práticas habitacionais ... Etnografias Urbanas reúne um conjunto de comunicaóes, comentários e reflexões, de cariz interdisciplinar, realizadas no encontro Cidade e Diversidade: Perspectivas de Desenvolvimento em Antropologia Urbana que, em Setembro de 2001, reuniu cerca de vinte investigadores de várias "gerações" e pertengas disciplinares.

Urban anthropology.

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Among the channels of human expression, perhaps the richest of all is music, through which people can express their emotions – in a continuum ranging from joy to grief, from excitement to depression – in a manner that is socially and culturally accessible and acceptable. This book addresses the aspects involved in both producing and listening to music from the point of view of cognitive science. Arguments that might appear hard for non-specialists to understand are addressed in a clear and accessible language. An enthralling itinerary through the various aspects of the human relationship with music that underscores how the long path from the first sounds that man has produced and identified in nature through to the most modern compositions are the result of a process of rationalisation gravitating around the multiform relationship between man, the environment and musical creation.

Music and anthropology. --- Anthropology and music --- Anthropology --- Scienze cognitive --- Antropologia --- Musica

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The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics" of anthropology. Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the simple insight that anthropology is composed of claims, whether tacit or explicit, about anthropos and about logos--and the myriad ways in which these two Greek nouns have been, might be, and should be, connected. Anthropos Today represents a pathbreaking effort to fill this gap. Paul Rabinow brings together years of distinguished work in this magisterial volume that seeks to reinvigorate the human sciences. Specifically, he assembles a set of conceptual tools--"modern equipment"--to assess how intellectual work is currently conducted and how it might change. Anthropos Today crystallizes Rabinow's previous ethnographic inquiries into the production of truth about life in the world of biotechnology and genome mapping (and his invention of new ways of practicing this pursuit), and his findings on how new practices of life, labor, and language have emerged and been institutionalized. Here, Rabinow steps back from empirical research in order to reflect on the conceptual and ethical resources available today to conduct such inquiries. Drawing richly on Foucault and many other thinkers including Weber and Dewey, Rabinow concludes that a "contingent practice" must be developed that focuses on "events of problematization." Brilliantly synthesizing insights from American, French, and German traditions, he offers a lucid, deeply learned, original discussion of how one might best think about anthropos today.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology --- Culture --- Anthropologie philosophique --- Anthropologie --- Methodology. --- Semiotic models. --- Méthodologie --- Modèles sémiotiques --- Philosophy --- Methodology --- Semiotic models --- Méthodologie --- Modèles sémiotiques --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Ethnology --- Semiotics --- Philosophy. --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Anthropology - Philosophy --- Anthropology - Methodology --- Culture - Semiotic models --- Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural anthropology. --- Anthropology -- Ethnographic methodology. --- Anthropology. --- Culture.

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Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition.

Medical anthropology --- Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Archival resources --- Anthropological aspects --- Life Sciences --- General and Others

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Life, on a day to day basis, is a sequence of emotional states: hope, disappointment, irritation, anger, affection, envy, pride, embarrassment, joy, sadness and many more. We know intuitively that these states express deep things about our character and our view of the world. But what are emotions and why are they so important to us? In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. In so doing he lays the foundations for a deeper understanding of our evaluative judgments, our actions, our personal relationships and our fundamental well-being. Aimed principally at philosophers and psychologists, this book will certainly be accessible to readers in other disciplines such as religion and anthropology.

Emotions (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics --- Arts and Humanities