Anthropology
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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 -
Megalithic monuments and social structures: Comparative studies on recent and Funnel Beaker societies [Paperback]
Dr Maria Wunderlich(Author)
$125.00ISBN: 9789088907869
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 5
Megalith building constitutes not only a past, but also a recent phenomenon, which is still practised today. The documentation and interpretation of recent megalith building traditions is offering potential aid in the interpretation of prehistoric... .... Learn More -
Megalithic monuments and social structures: Comparative studies on recent and Funnel Beaker societies [Hardback]
Dr Maria Wunderlich(Author)
$245.00ISBN: 9789088907876
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 5
Megalith building constitutes not only a past, but also a recent phenomenon, which is still practised today. The documentation and interpretation of recent megalith building traditions is offering potential aid in the interpretation of prehistoric... .... Learn More -
The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism.: Myth, Literature, Anthropology [Paperback]
Andrea Benedetti(Editor); Ulrich van Loyen(Editor)
$26.00ISBN: 9788869771361
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Anthropology
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a ... .... Learn More -
Solidarity Bodies: Workfare and Volunteering Policies [Paperback]
Anna D’Ascenzio(Editor); Stefania Ferraro(Editor)
$18.00ISBN: 9788869772290
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
This book aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, as a synchronous rewriting of territorial policy and advocacy, according to the principles of risk and border. The two terms, as a solid sociological category, shed ... .... Learn More -
This is not a grass skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Paperback]
Dr. Karen Jacobs(Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9789088908125
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualized depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses a... .... Learn More -
This is not a grass skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Hardback]
Dr. Karen Jacobs(Author)
$180.00ISBN: 9789088908132
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualized depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses a... .... Learn More -
Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging [Hardback]
Constance Smith(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012333
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Volume: 46
What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern, globalised futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the city'... .... Learn More -
Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe [Paperback]
Prof. Dr. Wayne Modest(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor); Doris Prlić(Editor); Dr. Claudia Augustat(Editor)
$35.00ISBN: 9789088907777
Published by : Sidestone Press
Matters of Belonging foregrounds critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. The book... .... Learn More
