Anthropology & Sociology

ISBN: 9781407308456
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged. Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922927
Published by : Barkhuis
After Western-Europeans first heard the word 'shaman' in Siberia at the end of the seventeenth century, the term rapidly acquired a remarkable range of meanings in different contexts. This book traces the long genealogical journey of the notions o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842174449
Published by : Oxbow Books
The killing and burial of animals in ritualistic contexts is encountered across Europe from Prehistory through to the historical period. This volume presents the state of research across Europe to illustrate how comparable interpretative frame... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900617
Published by : Sidestone Press
Since 2005, Dutch artist Ida van der Lee's Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls' All Around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse public of various ages and relig... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856300697
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Studium Faesolanum
English summary: San Polo is a small village that preserves much of the essence of erstwhile Chianti and Tuscany. The author records here stories, proverbs, and local traditions in the regional dialect in homage to nostalgia for other times... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714115429
Published by : British Museum Press
For thousands of years, Plains Indians and their ancestors have occupied the vast region that stretches from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains and from the Canadian plains to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, peoples such as the Blackfoot a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515098618
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Erdkundliches Wissen
Volume: 149
English description: The UNESCO is considered the global beacon of monument and nature conservation. The World Heritage Convention serves as a global cultural policy that seeks to strengthen the conservation of exceptional sites. This vo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515098649
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv (MGAr)
Volume: 17
English summary: Helge Wendt describes the social composition of Catholic and Protestant missionaries of various European colonial states between 1700 and 1900 from a cultural-historical perspective. He therefore works especially from the c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700166689
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: VERöFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR SOZIANLANTHROPOLOGIE
Volume: 14
This volume attempts at reconstructing the pre-colonial social structures of the Toba-Batak peoples of the Samosir peninsula in North Sumatra. Because production relationships among the Toba-Batak were based on kinship (lineage organization and... .... Learn More