Luis A. Vivanco

Robert L. Welsch

Robert Louis Welsch

Organized around anthropological questions, this contemporary text demonstrates how anthropological thinking can be used as a tool for deciphering everyday experiences. Designed to stimulate students' anthropological imaginations, this concise foundation of cultural anthropology can beenriched by the use of ethnographies, a reader, articles, field-based activities, and more.

A Concise Introduction

Asking Questions about Cultural Anthropology

Luis Antonio Vivanco

"This is a cultural anthropology textbook"--

Asking Questions about Humanity

Cultural Anthropology

Eric Venbrux

Pamela Sheffield Rosi

Collection of articles by various authors, including the editors.

Eric Venbrux, Pamela Sheffield Rosi, Robert L. Welsch

Exploring World Art

Associate Professor of Anthropology Robert L Welsch, Professor

Virginia-Lee Webb

Sebastian Haraha

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance explores the relationship between social life and artistic expression since the nineteenth century in one of the most important art-producing regions of Papua New Guinea. It includes a stunning presentation of hand-carved and hand-painted ancestor boards, masks, drums, skull racks, and personal items. Each society on the Papuan Gulf had its own elaborate traditions of carved, painted, or decorated masks, boards, and hand drums that filled the men's longhouses for use in dances and performances. Today these art objects offer a glimpse into the varied cosmologies and ritual lives of these surprisingly diverse societies before they were changed significantly through their contact with the West.

Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance

Robert Louis Welsch

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