Anthropology
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Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art and European Museums: Volume 1 [Hardback]
Lucie Carreau(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor); Alana Jelinek(Editor); Erna Lilje(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088905902
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4A
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly qu... .... Learn More -
Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art and European Museums: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Lucie Carreau(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor); Alana Jelinek(Editor); Erna Lilje(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$130.00ISBN: 9789088906268
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4B
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly qu... .... Learn More -
Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art and European Museums: Volume 2 [Hardback]
Lucie Carreau(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor); Alana Jelinek(Editor); Erna Lilje(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$345.00ISBN: 9789088906275
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4B
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly qu... .... Learn More -
Gaelic Proverbs [Paperback]
Alexander Nicolson(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476244
Published by : Origin
Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage. The book includes notes, historical and social, and comparisons w... .... Learn More -
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality: Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens [Paperback]
Ruggero D'Alessandro(Author)
$16.00ISBN: 9788869771378
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
The Odyssey is rightly celebrated as a story that goes far beyond the scope of epic poetry. It is an open window to an entire era and its social systems as well as its theological, cultural, economic and political structures, while running simulta... .... Learn More -
Women on the verge of Jihad: The hidden pathways towards radicalization [Paperback]
Anna Zizola(Author); Paolo Maria Inghilleri(Author)
$14.00ISBN: 9788869771316
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
Surprisingly, jihadi groups like ISIS do not only attract female supporters coming from Muslim communities, but also Western women who grew up in non-Muslim environments. Trauma, depression and the need for a more exciting life outside the constra... .... Learn More -
The Making of the Crofting Community [Paperback]
James Hunter(Author); Hunter James(Author)
$21.95ISBN: 9781912476329
Published by : Origin
This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.
Written b... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Editor); Polly Bence(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor)
$65.00ISBN: 9789088905650
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 2
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fiber armor from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armor found in museum collections, it investigates the historical c... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Hardback]
Julie Adams(Editor); Polly Bence(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088905667
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 2
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fiber armor from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armor found in museum collections, it investigates the historical c... .... Learn More -
Manipulations post-mortem du corps humain: Implications archéologiques et anthropologiques [Paperback]
Jennifer Kerner(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088905438
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Human remains resulting from sophisticated mortuary treatments represent a preferred information source about the organization of societies and about the belief systems of ancient people. Thereby, on the archaeological field, secondary... .... Learn More
