In this book, Jenny Moon explores and clarifies critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process. Key themes covered include: * different views of and approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical basis that can be translated into use in the classroom. * links between learning, thinking and writing * the place…

Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history. Alan Barnard has written a clear, detailed overview of anthropological theory that brings out the historical contexts of the great debates, tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. His book covers the precursors of anthropology: evolutionism in all its guises: diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and…

This book provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? How does current thinking on t…

This Companion is comprised of 26 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter pr…

Radical Interpretation in Religion is addressed to those interested in current method and theory in the study of religion. It consists of original essays by ten of the most interesting writers on the subject today. They offer radical interpretations of religious belief in the style of Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom, Richard Rorty, and William James, as well as new explorations in cultural anth…

This book describes and analyses the distinctive social habitats that arise from the interpretation of globalization and local cultures. Through in-depth case studies of South Asian, East African, Melanesian and European societies, the contributors provide a careful, contextual analysis of the formation and expression of local identities and of the affective self-constitution of social agents. …

E-Business Strategy, Sourcing and Governance is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology. Managers need to have an understanding of strategy development for IS/IT that covers e-business strategy, sourcing of service, and gov…

Corporate Social Responsibility is for all Finance and Management Professionals as well as Academics, Policy Makers, and Regulators.Corporate Social Responsibility is based on critical insight gained by analysig four large companies' experiences of corporate social responsibility. This study highlights the inadequacies of social and ethical reporting by business, both in terms of the ad hoc nat…

This is the first work to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. The authors provide a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, from the cultural theories of Herder, Morgna, and Tylor to the often neglected contributions of the German scholars of the period. The work of early-twentieth century anthropologists such as Boas and Malinowski in t…

This book, a critical analysis of the dynamically interdependent histories of capitalism and economic theory, contends that the many are right, and sets out to show why. To do so, it is necessary to examine the dynamic interaction of two processes - the historical realities of capitalism and the evolution of the economic theory that supports it. Both have been thoroughly studied over many years…