Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology
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Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology [Paperback]
Patricia Anne Baker (Author); Gillian Carr (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842170793
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 r... .... Learn More -
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist [Paperback]
F B M De Waal (Author)
$17.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780465041763
Published by : Basic Books
Volume: 2001
The Ape and the Sushi Master aims to poke as many holes as possible in the nature/culture divide. Arguing that apes have created their own distinctive culture, Frans de Waal challenges our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we diff... .... Learn More -
Drinking: Anthropological Approaches [Paperback]
Igor De Garine (Author); Valerie De Garine (Author)
$25.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781571813152
Published by : Berghahn
Volume: 2001
Over the last two decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, ad... .... Learn More -
Current and Recent Research in Osteoarchaeology 2 [Paperback]
Sue Anderson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900188975
Published by : Oxbow Books
A collection of short papers and abstracts from the 4th, 5th and 6th proceedings of the Osteological Research Group, held in April and November 1996 and June 1997. The papers cover a wide range of subjects including technical information, evide... .... Learn More -
Human Origins: The Fossil Record [Paperback]
Clark Spencer Larsen (Author); Robert M. Matter (Author); Daniel L. Gebo (Author)
$27.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781577660026
Published by : Waveland Press
Volume: 1998
This updated, illustrated guide to the fossil record of human evolution brings together for easy reference, in one source, all the major finds of fossil hominoids and hominids. An essential source in physical anthropology classrooms and laborat... .... Learn More -
Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides y Fred Rosner [Hardback]
Fred Rosner (Author)
$50.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780765759979
This book contains 300 entries relating to the medical writing and prescriptions of the 12th C AD Jewish leader Moses Maimonides. Sheds interesting light on scientific knowledge in the medieval Jewish community in Cairo. .... Learn More -
Handbuch der altagyptischen Medizin [Hardback]
Wolfhart Westendorf (Author)
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ISBN: 9789004103191
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
An abridged and updated version of Hildegard von Deines' 'Grundrisz der Medizin der alten Ägypter', published 25 years ago. This new version traces Egyptian medicine from the second millennium to the Roman period, using as evidence, extant pap... .... Learn More -
People, Environment, Disease and Death: A Medical Geography of Britain through the Ages [Hardback]
G. Melvyn Howe (Author)
$98.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780708313732
Published by : University of Wales Press
Volume: 1997
As the author makes clear, medical statistics for earlier periods are difficult to extract from the available sources, so his discussion of diseases in pre-Normand and medieval periods are necessarily briefer than the chapters on Victorian Engl... .... Learn More -
Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training [Hardback]
T D Blakely (Author); Sue Harrington (Author)
$47.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781560987505
Published by : Smithsonian Institution Press
Volume: 1997
In 1989, a cache of some 9800 dissected and amputated human bones - more than 75 percent of them African American - was found in the earthen basement floor of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. To re-create the social context and medica... .... Learn More -
Bones of the Maya [Hardback]
Stephen L. Whittington (Author)
$55.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781560986843
Published by : Smithsonian Institution Press
In the ninth century, southern lowland Maya civilization went into a mysterious decline. Despite the wealth of information that bones could potentially provide towards explaining the collapse, bioarchaeologists have been traditionally unable to... .... Learn More