Anthropology
Global approaches to the study of human society and culture, covering hunter-gatherers, state formation, ethnography, physical and cultural anthropology.
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The Archaeology of Human Ancestry [Paperback]
James Steele (Author); Stephen Shennan (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780415642941
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Ominously subtitled `Power, sex and tradition', this collection of seventeen essays by archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out methods for reconstructing the social systems and cultural traditions of our early ancestors. Contribu... .... Learn More -
Who Are These Dead? The Anthropology of Violence, Pit Structures, Power and Symbolism: Death in the Anasazi Culture of the American Southwest [Paperback]
John D. Cater (Author)
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Inside Cultures: A New Introduction to Cultural Anthropology [Paperback]
William Balee (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9781598746051
Published by : Left Coast Press
Emphasizing the interplay of complexity and subsistence,the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, Wil... .... Learn More -
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Cambridge 2010 [Paperback]
Piers D Mitchell (Author); Jo Buckberry (Author)
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Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern [Paperback]
Vivienne Lo (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780861591886
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 188
By presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, this collection of papers collectively challenge orthodox notions of the perfect body and its pursuit. The introductory essay by the editor compares a... .... Learn More -
The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique [Hardback]
Kim Sterelny (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9780262016797
Published by : MIT Press
Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, ... .... Learn More -
(Re)Thinking the Little Ancestor: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy and Childhood [Paperback]
Alison Moore (Editor); Mike Lally (Editor)
£34.00ISBN: 9781407308456
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The archaeology of childhood has seen a remarkable surge in interest over the last few years; this volume presents updated papers from the conference which kickstarted that interest, held in Cardiff in 2005. Topics range from the purely theoret... .... Learn More -
The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives [Hardback]
Aleksander Pluskowski (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 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 -
Analysing Allerzielen Alom [Paperback]
William R Arfman (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 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 -
Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands [Hardback]
Robert Hitchcock (Author); William A Lovis (Editor); Robert Whallon (Editor); Robert K Hitchcock (Editor)
£76.00ISBN: 9781931745635
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: COTSEN: IDEAS, DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES
Volume: 5
Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated and utilised in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, t... .... Learn More