Antropologia a życie współczesne

For over a century, anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures, uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. Now, a new generation of anthropologists are using these methods in a different context - to illuminate the behaviour of consumers and businesses at home.

In Anthro-Vision, Gillian Tett - bestselling author, Financial Times journalist, and anthropology PhD - reveals how anthropology can make sense of people's behaviour, in business and beyond. She outlines how anthropology helps explain consumer habits - revealing the 'webs of meaning' that underpin how we shop, and unpicking the subtle cultural shifts driving the rise of green investment. She explores how anthropology can shed light on the workplace, identifying the hidden tribes within the office, and pinpointing which rituals are binding together a team. And she shows how we can all use anthropology in our own lives, too: helping us make better decisions, navigate risk - even work out what our peers are really thinking.

Along the way, Tett draws on stories from Tajik villages and Amazon warehouses, Japanese classrooms and Wall Street trading floors, all to reveal the power of anthropology in action.

The result is a wholly new way to make sense of human behaviour. In a short-sighted world, we can all learn to see clearly - using the power of Anthro-Vision.

Zagadnienia omawiane w tym opracowaniu dotyczą m.in. najpopularniejszych metod
stosowanych przy ocenie wieku biologicznego dzieci i młodzieży, metod i technik wykorzystywanych przy pomiarach ciała człowieka (antropometrii) i zagadnień związanych
z ekologią człowieka. Istotną część opracowania poświęcono zagadnieniu postawy ciała
człowieka, w tym roli czynników (morfologicznych, fizjologicznych i środowiskowych) ją
warunkujących, zmianom postawy ciała w filogenezie i ontogenezie, metodom wykorzystywanym do jej oceny oraz pozycjom ciała człowieka przyjmowanym podczas pracy, wypoczynku i aktywności sportowo-rekreacyjnej.

Wielkich filozofów poznaje się po tym, że czytamy ich zawsze.
Roman Ingarden nakłania do refleksji o naturze człowieka, dotykając tematów ponadczasowych. Wskazuje kierunki myślenia o tym, kim jesteśmy dla siebie, czym wyróżniamy się w przyrodzie, jak sobie radzimy z czasem i przemijaniem, kiedy czujemy się wolni, czym jest odpowiedzialność.
Sięgając po Książeczkę o człowieku, czytamy o sobie.

The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land.

In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.

Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom.

Podręcznik omawia aspekty rozwoju, genetyczne i poza genetyczne czynniki rozwoju osobniczego człowieka, rozwój struktury i funkcji w ontogenezie wraz z mechanizmami rozwoju, etapy rozwoju osobniczego człowieka od zygoty do śmierci, okresy krytyczne i przejściowe w ontogenezie człowieka i ich powiązania ze zdrowiem i jakością życia, dymorfizm płciowy, cykle i biorytmy w rozwoju ontogenetycznym człowieka, międzypokoleniowe przemiany przebiegu ontogenezy, metody i techniki badań oraz modele rozwoju biologicznego człowieka.
Podręcznik jest adresowany do studentów kierunków studiów z obszaru nauk przyrodniczych, medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu, humanistycznych i społecznych oraz wszystkich zainteresowanych zmianami fizycznymi dokonującymi się w czasie życia osobniczego człowieka.

‘Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union’s plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War.’ - The Daily Telegraph ‘The Best Books for Summer 2022’

The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.

The same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through ten illuminating indicators, from the fertility rate in Singapore (one) to the median age in Catalonia (forty-three), Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.

Tomorrow’s People ranges from the countries of West Africa where the tendency towards large families is combining with falling infant mortality to create the greatest population explosion ever witnessed, to the countries of East Asia and Southern Europe where generations of low birth-rate and rising life expectancy are creating the oldest populations in history. Morland explores the geographical movements of peoples that are already under way – portents for still larger migrations ahead – which are radically changing the cultural, ethnic and religious composition of many societies across the globe, and in their turn creating political reaction that can be observed from Brexit to the rise of Donald Trump. Finally, he looks at the two underlying motors of change – remarkable rises in levels of education and burgeoning food production – which have made all these epochal developments possible.

Tomorrow’s People provides a fascinating, illuminating and thought-provoking tour of an emerging new world. Nobody who wants to understand that world should be without it.