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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Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands [Paperback]
Ben Burt (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780714125787
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
The Kwara'ae and other peoples of Malaita island in Solomon Islands once dressed for special occasions in ornaments of glistening white shell and pearl shell, intricately carved turtle shell, strings and straps of shell money-beads and combs an... .... Learn More -
Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands [Paperback]
Susanne Kuchler (Author);Andrea Eimke (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780714125800
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but als... .... Learn More -
Grounding Knowledge/Walking Land: Archaeological Research and Ethno-historical Identity in Central Nepal [Hardback]
Christopher Evans (Author);Judith Pettigrew (Author);Yarjung Kromchain Tamu (Author);Mark Turin (Author);J Pettigrew (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781902937502
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: MCDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
Tracking knowledge down to ground concerned with trail-based archaeology, journeys and histories, this is a volume of both firsts and thick context. At face-value it documents almost a decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapur... .... Learn More -
Rock Art of the Caribbean [Hardback]
Michele H. Hayward (Editor); Lesley-Gail Atkinson (Eidtor); Michael A. Cinquino (Editor
Regular Price: £44.50
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ISBN: 9780817316501
Published by : University of Alabama Press
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the... .... Learn More -
Talking About Separation [Paperback]
Charlie Azzopardi (Author)
£7.00ISBN: 9789993272380
Published by : Midsea Books
Talking About Separation is one in a series of books which addresses marital separation and its impact on children in their present and future lives. The books are intended to help parents minimise the long-term trauma of marital separation on chi... .... Learn More -
Telling your child about Separation [Paperback]
Charlie Azzopardi (Author)
£7.00ISBN: 9789993272403
Published by : Midsea Books
'Telling your child about Separation is one in a series of books which addresses marital separation and its impact on children in their present and future lives. The books are intended to help parents minimise the long-term trauma of marital separ... .... Learn More -
Will They Still Love Me? [Paperback]
Charlie Azzopardi (Author)
£7.00ISBN: 9789993272427
Published by : Midsea Books
Will they still love me? is one in a series of books which addresses marital separation and its impact on children in their present and future lives. The books are intended to help parents minimise the long-term trauma of marital separation on chi... .... Learn More -
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender and Archaeology [Hardback]
Rosemary Joyce (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9780500051535
Published by : Thames and Hudson
An accessible, though tightly argued book, which shows the importance of an open mind when dealing with the archaeology of sex and gender. All too often, Rosemary Joyce claims, reconstructions of sex and sexual identity have been shaped by per... .... Learn More -
People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos [Hardback]
Anthony F. Aveni (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780500051528
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Oxbow says: In the modern world technology has meant that night no longer means darkness, we don't rely on the sun to keep us warm and the celestial sky, and what is beyond, is there to be quantitifed and theorised about. Although modern scienc... .... Learn More -
Wind, Life, Health [Paperback]
Elisabeth Hsu (Author);Chris Low (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781405178938
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Oxbow says: In this collection of eleven papers taken from a conference held in Oxford in 2005 wind is taken as a central themes linking a wide variety of cultures. Focusing on 'the richness of human ideas and practices surrounding wind, breath... .... Learn More