Anthropology

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: 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

ISBN: 9781902937588
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question addressed by the anthropologi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848850507
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. The laments - known as idid in Arabic - are composed or... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405187763
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This book presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad scope of writings on human behaviour across cultures that are the basis for the modern study of anthropology. Editor Robert Launay reveals how the concerns of contemporary anthr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405187756
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This book presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad scope of writings on human behaviour across cultures that are the basis for the modern study of anthropology. Editor Robert Launay reveals how the concerns of contemporary anthr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598745412
Published by : Left Coast Press
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598745740
Published by : Left Coast Press
One day at the end of the twentieth century, Roger Echo-Hawk decided to give up being an Indian. After becoming an American Indian historian, he had started to question our widespread reliance on a concept of race that the academy had long-sinc... .... Learn More