Anthropology
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Society and the City: The Dark Sides of Social Innovation [Paperback]
Guido Borelli(Editor); Maurizio Busacca(Editor)
$24.99ISBN: 9788869772580
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of Social Innovation (SI) and the success of today’s model of capitalist regulation? According to most studies focusing on SI, the existing relation is restorative in nature: ... .... Learn More -
Interregnum: Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony [Paperback]
Giacomo Marramao(Editor)
$24.99ISBN: 9788869772610
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
How does the future of the concept of the "Political" appear in a world marked by two apparently opposite trends: the tendency towards globalization and that of reconstituting new forms of sovereignty? The book represents the first theor... .... Learn More -
Ecology of a Tool: The ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia) [Hardback]
Pierre Perequin(Author); Anne-Marie Petrequin(Author); Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud(Translator)
$60.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253863
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Archéo Logiques
Volume: 8
New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarr... .... Learn More -
A Stranger in the House: The Crossroads III [Hardback]
Jana Mynářová(Editor); Marwan Kilani(Editor); Sergio Alivernini(Editor)
$89.00ISBN: 9788073089283
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
The Crossroads III – A Stranger in the House. Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age conference has been held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague) between September 10 and 13, 2018. The mai... .... Learn More -
Gender (&) Design: Positions on Gendering in Design Cultures [Paperback]
Tom Bieling(Editor)
$35.99ISBN: 9788869772429
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Design Meanings
In its entire range of media and product worlds, Design is decisively involved in the cultural production and distribution of related images and interpretations of gender. This anthology examines why this is the case and what happens when it is ch... .... Learn More -
3.11: Disaster and Trauma in Experience, Understanding, and Imagination [Paperback]
Christopher Craig(Editor); Enrico Fongaro(Editor); Andreas Niehaus(Editor)
$20.00ISBN: 9788869772207
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 was a complex event. It was a disaster of multiple dimensions, unleashing the linked forces of seismic shock, tsunami, and nuclear radiation. This confluence left a varied array of dama... .... Learn More -
The Native Greenlander: Folktales of Greenland [Paperback]
Heinrich Rink(Editor); Aron of Kangeq(Illustrator)
$20.00ISBN: 9780996748087
Published by : International Polar Institute
The remarkable oral tradition of the Inuit, unaffected by few outside influences, is traced through their history on the land and addresses both spirtual and cultural practices. Many of the stories describe the clashes between the Norse and the In... .... Learn More -
Death and Changing Rituals: Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices [Paperback]
J. Rasmus Brandt(Editor); Håkon Roland(Editor); Marina Prusac(Editor)
$49.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253818
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 7
The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment... .... Learn More -
Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes: Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba [Paperback]
Dr. Jana Pešoutová(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9789088907647
Published by : Sidestone Press
In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By c... .... Learn More -
Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes: Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba [Hardback]
Dr. Jana Pešoutová(Author)
$225.00ISBN: 9789088907623
Published by : Sidestone Press
In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By c... .... Learn More
