Carol J Delaney

Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society

The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society

Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth

Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth

Carol Delaney

Carol Lowery Delaney (born December 12, 1940) is an American anthropologist and author. Delaney earned an A.B. in philosophy from Boston University in...

Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis

This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, ...

The Delaney Christmas Carol

From three of the brightest stars in contemporary fiction comes a festive trio of romantic classics about an unforgettable family—and the enchanted heirloom that links one generation to the next.…Christmas Past by Iris JohansenKillara, Arizona, 1893. Kevin Delaney doesn’t know what to make of the Gy...

The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

How do the metaphors we use to describe procreation affect our view of the relative worth of each gender? Carol Delaney discloses the powerful meanings condensed in the seemingly innocent images of "seed" and "soil." Drawing on her work in a small Turkish village of Sunni Muslims, she shows us that ...

Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Investigating Culture offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms. Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply these ideas...

Abraham on Trial

Abraham on Trial questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. Through his desire to obey God at all costs, even if it meant sacrificing his son, Abraham became the definitive model of faith for the major world religions of Judaism, Christia...

Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students.Revised a...

Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America

Five hundred years after he set sail, Columbus is still a controversial figure in history. Debates portray him either as the hero in the great drama of discovery or as an avaricious glory hunter and ruthless destroyer of indigenous cultures. In Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem, Carol Delaney off...

Carol Delaney'sColumbus and the Quest for Jerusalem [Hardcover]2011