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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Why cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia [Hardback]
Graeme Barker (Editor); Monica Janowski (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 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 -
For The Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern [Hardback]
Elizabeth Wickett (Author)
£59.50ISBN: 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 -
Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe [Hardback]
Robert Launay (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 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 -
Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe [Paperback]
Robert Launay (Author)
£23.99ISBN: 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 -
Cultures of Commodity Branding [Hardback]
Andrew Bevan (Author); David Wengrow (Author)
£68.50ISBN: 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 -
Magic Children: Racial Identity and the End of Race [Hardback]
Roger Echo-Hawk (Author)
£74.50ISBN: 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 -
Magic Children: Racial Identity and the End of Race [Paperback]
Roger Echo-Hawk (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9781598745757
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 -
Cultures of Commodity Branding [Paperback]
Andrew Bevan (Author); David Wengrow (Author)
£26.95ISBN: 9781598745429
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 -
The Social Control of Mental Illness [Paperback]
Allan V. Horwitz (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9780971242760
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Sociology
In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significan... .... Learn More -
Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations [Hardback]
Douglas V. Campana (Editor); Pamela Crabtree (Editor); S.D. deFrance (Editor); Justin Lev-Tov (Editor); A M Choyke (Editor)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781842173909
Published by : Oxbow Books
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for... .... Learn More