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Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models
by Robert L. Bettinger
From the preface: "This is a primer on foraging models relevant to the study of hunter-gatherers. It is intended for students new to the subject matter, especially those with little mathematical training, and similarly challenged ethnographers, ethnologists, and archaeologists who are familiar with the principles of foraging theory but have never mastered any of its individual models. There are more of them than one might think. The diet breadth ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$29.95, Our Price US$24.00

Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity, and Animal Transformations
edited by D. Campana, P. Crabtree, S.D. deFrance, J. Lev-Tov and A. Choyke
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for component groups. Here, in this book, 27 peer-reviewed papers that span 4 continents and the Caribbean islands explore in different ways how animals were incorporated into the diets and religions of many ...
Hardback. Price US$160.00

Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships
edited by Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional societies. Topics covered include the theoretical potential of ethnographic research for zooarchaeology, the use of comparative analogies in the ...
Hardback. Price US$90.00

The Archaeology of Politics and Power: Where, When and Why the First States Formed
by Charles Maisels
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do.

To understand the inner-workings and motivations of states one must understand how and why they came into existence in the first place. This book describes how states formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, China and the Andes, and also how the Indus ...
Paperback. Price US$65.00

Nomadic Felts
by Stephanie Bunn
Believed to be one of the earliest textiles, felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft still thrives today as an integral part of their culture. Valued for both its functional and decorative qualities, felt is used to make yurts and all manner of objects relating to daily life, such as carpets, interior fittings, carrying bags, saddle cloths and clothing. Traditional feltmaking is also still ...
Paperback. Price US$50.00

Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands
by Susanne Küchler and Andrea Eimke
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but also used in ways deeply invested in the new context of Christian domesticity. In the Cook Islands, quilts are stitched to be given away at funerals, at weddings and other events marking stages of loss ...
Paperback. Price US$50.00

Time and Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long Term in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
edited by Dimitra Papagianni, Robert Layton and Herbert Maschner
This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain understandings of hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology and archaeology and challenges the perception that these distinctions are inherent to the two disciplines. The volume brings together studies that ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00

Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr
Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, but the interpretative methods used by the two groups are often quite different and interdisciplinary discussion is rare. The papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, to widen the field of interpretation, and to reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and prac. ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)
by Sharri R. Clark
After more than 80 years of research, the Indus Civilization (ca. 2600-1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilization, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the largest corpus of representational art at many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. The figurines are one of the richest sources of information regarding Indus ideology and society. Unfortunately, the figurines often have been ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price US$40.00, Our Price US$29.95

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en afghanistan: Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d'islam
by Charles Kieffer
This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.

As a contributor to the "Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan" under the direction of the late Prof. Georges Redard (University of Bern), he has also collected material about the private life and the intimate ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00