Anthropology
Global approaches to the study of human society and culture, covering hunter-gatherers, state formation, ethnography, physical and cultural anthropology.
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Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage [Hardback]
Luitgard Mols (Editor); Marjo Buitelaar (Editor)
£150.00ISBN: 9789088904776
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
Volume: 43
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National... .... Learn More -
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking [Hardback]
Arpad Szakolczai (Author); Agnes Horvath (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9781138214484
Published by : Routledge
Series: Contemporary Liminality
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human hist... .... Learn More -
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking [Paperback]
Arpad Szakolczai (Author); Agnes Horvath (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781138214491
Published by : Routledge
Series: Contemporary Liminality
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human hist... .... Learn More -
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Paperback]
Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088904462
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the dis... .... Learn More
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Hardback]
Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088904479
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the dis... .... Learn More
The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies [Hardback]
Charles Stanish (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781107180550
Published by : Cambridge University Press
How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, st... .... Learn More
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present [Hardback]
Ronald Hutton (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780300229042
Published by : Yale University Press
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much m... .... Learn More
Treasures in Trusted Hands: Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects [Paperback]
Jos van Beurden (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088904394
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: CLUES
Volume: 3
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations b... .... Learn More
Treasures in Trusted Hands: Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects [Hardback]
Jos van Beurden (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9789088904400
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: CLUES
Volume: 3
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations b... .... Learn More
Killing Others: A Natural History of Ethnic Violence [Paperback]
Matthew Lange (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9781501704888
Published by : Cornell University Press
In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, Lange provides a simple yet powerfu... .... Learn More
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