Anthropology
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The Cultural History of Musical Instruments in Scotland: 1700 to the Present Day [Paperback]
Vivien E. Williams(Editor); Hugh Cheape(Editor)
$50.00ISBN: 9781910900208
Published by : John Donald
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical in... .... Learn More -
Robert Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More -
Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance: Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles [Hardback]
Prof. Joanne M.A. Murphy PhD(Editor); Dr. Jerolyn E. Morrison PhD(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9781931534284
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 61
Kleronomiá (kληρονομιά)—meaning legacy, inheritance, or allotment—encapsulates many of Jeffrey Soles’s feelings about the modern town and archaeological site of Mochlos in eas... .... Learn More -
Gournes, Pediada: A Minoan Cemetery in Crete [Hardback]
Calliope E. Galanaki(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781931534260
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 63
The results of the excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery—including 37 tombs and an associated rectangular Minoan building—at Gournes in north-central Crete revealed strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos ... .... Learn More -
Göltepe Excavations: Tin Production at an Early Bronze Age Mining Town in the Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey [Hardback]
Prof. Kutlu Aslıhan Yener PhD(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781931534277
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 64
This volume presents over fifteen years (1981–1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village, Göltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surv... .... Learn More -
The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete [Hardback]
Dr. Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder PhD(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781931534291
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 65
This volume describes the discovery in 2003 and excavation between 2004 and 2009 of a Minoan ship that sunk near the island of Pseira around 1725/1700 BC. The recovered cargo constitutes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete cla... .... Learn More -
Silver and Frankincense: Scent and personal adornment in the Arab world [Paperback]
Sigrid van Roode(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9789492940100
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Although scent has always played a major role in personal adornment in the Arab world, its evanescent quality leaves very few or no traces at all over time. This book presents an introduction into this lesser known aspect of personal adornment in ... .... Learn More -
The Origins of the Changos [Paperback]
Dumitru Martinas(Author)
$29.99ISBN: 9781592110797
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
The term Chango (Csángó) refers to a population whose ethnic origin has been the subject of much controversy. The term originates from the Magyar language in which it means “mixed” or “impure.” Most Changos li... .... Learn More -
Clockwork Enemy: Intolerance in the Era of Neo-nationalism [Paperback]
Alfredo Alietti(Editor); Dario Padovan(Editor)
$27.99ISBN: 9788869772696
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
The relationship among neo-nationalisms, populisms and racisms has long existed in the political landscape of western societies and, today, it is a key issue to understand current affairs and the popularity of racist, anti-Semite and Islamophobic ... .... Learn More -
Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity [Paperback]
Tim Forssman(Author)
$49.00ISBN: 9781789696851
Published by : Archaeopress Access Archaeology
Series: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
Volume: 100
Between the last centuries BC and the early second millennium AD, central southern Africa witnessed massive social change. Several landscapes hosted a variety of socio-political developments that led to the establishment of state-level society at ... .... Learn More
