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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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open their Doors [Hardback]
Jeanne E. Arnold (Author); Anthony Graesch (Author); Enzo Ragazzini (Author); Elinor Ochs (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9781931745611
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in infor... .... Learn More -
Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology [Paperback]
Lewis R. Binford (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780979773181
Published by : Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Archaeology
In Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology the late Lewis Binford documents the hunting and butchering strategies of modern Arctic big game hunters and the archaeological remains generated during the course of their yearly round of activities-... .... Learn More -
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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Dissent with Modification: Human Origins, Palaeolithic Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology in Britain 1859-1901 [Paperback]
John McNabb (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905739523
Published by : Archaeopress
The author's original aim in writing this book was to chronicle the story of a very specific debate in human evolutionary studies that took place between the late 1880s and the 1930s - the 'eolith' debate that had to do with small, natural stones ... .... Learn More -
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