Anthropology
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Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway [Paperback]
Till Mostowlansky (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780822964438
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this ... .... Learn More -
Desert Silver: Understanding traditional jewellery from the Middle East and North Africa [Paperback]
Sigrid van Roode (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789080774476
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
This book is all about jewellery from the Middle East and North Africa. These objects of adornment are not just beautiful, but often carry a hidden meaning. Jewellery plays a subtle role in everyday society as communicator, messenger, protector an... .... Learn More -
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c.650-1100 AD [Paperback]
Annia Cherryson (Author); Jo Buckberry (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785705496
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 4
Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has see... .... Learn More -
Force of Custom, The: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan [Paperback]
Judith Beyer (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822964209
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how ... .... Learn More -
Lamak: Ritual objects in Bali [Paperback]
Francine Brinkgreve (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789088903908
Published by : Sidestone Press
A lamak is a long narrow ritual hanging that is an essential requirement at almost all rituals in Bali. It is hung from altars and shrines at temple festivals and on festive holy days. Made usually of palm leaves, it is by nature ephemeral and it ... .... Learn More -
Lamak: Ritual objects in Bali [Hardback]
Francine Brinkgreve (Author)
£195.00ISBN: 9789088903915
Published by : Sidestone Press
A lamak is a long narrow ritual hanging that is an essential requirement at almost all rituals in Bali. It is hung from altars and shrines at temple festivals and on festive holy days. Made usually of palm leaves, it is by nature ephemeral and it ... .... Learn More -
Egypt’s Wearable Heritage [Paperback]
Jolanda Bos (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789080774445
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Egypt’s Wearable Heritage combines different subjects of crafts and arts from Egypt and the West-Asian and North African region. It is a richly illustrated and colourful book on different aspects of ‘wearable heritage’, such as jewellery,... .... Learn More -
'Some Friends Came to See Us': Lord Moyne's 1936 Expedition to the Asmat [Paperback]
Nick Stanley (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780861592067
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 206
Walter Edward Guinness (1880–1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times in ... .... Learn More -
Separate Humans: Anthropology, Ontology, Existence [Paperback]
Albert Piette (Author)
£8.00ISBN: 9788869770395
Published by : Mimesis International
This book is a theoretical essay that lays a few foundations on which to build an anthropology directly focusing on human units. In the first chapter, the author will attempt to show that the evolutionary specificity of humans constitutes an argum... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Hardback]
Julie Adams (Editor); Polly Bence (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 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 fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the historical... .... Learn More