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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Megalithic Monuments and Social Structures: Comparative Studies on Recent and Funnel Beaker Societies [Paperback]
Maria Wunderlich (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9789088907869
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 5
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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]
Maria Wunderlich (Author)
£195.00ISBN: 9789088907876
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Scales of Transformation
Volume: 5
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
This is not a Grass Skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Paperback]
Karen Jacobs (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088908125
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garme... .... Learn More -
This is not a Grass Skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Hardback]
Karen Jacobs (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088908132
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garme... .... Learn More -
Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe [Paperback]
Wayne Modest (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Doris Prlić (Editor); Claudia Augustat (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9789088907777
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 emerge... .... Learn More -
Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe [Hardback]
Wayne Modest (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Doris Prlić (Editor); Claudia Augustat (Editor)
£90.00ISBN: 9789088907784
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 emerge... .... Learn More -
The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism: Myth, Literature, and Anthropology [Paperback]
Andrea Benedetti (Editor); Ulrich van Loyen (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9788869771361
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Anthropology
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
The Phallus and the Mask: The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis [Paperback]
Marina de Carneri (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771385
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Psychology
Psychoanalysts of all schools have generally dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, have welcomed the contributions of feminist theory, p... .... Learn More -
Human Sacrifice: Archaeological Perspectives from around the World [Paperback]
Laerke Recht (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781108728201
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Sacrifice is not simply an expression of religious beliefs. Its highly symbolic nature lends itself to various kinds of manipulation by those carrying it out, who may use the ritual in maintaining and negotiating power and identity in carefully st... .... Learn More -
Diverse Society Diverse Classrooms: Critical, Creative, Cooperative and Interculturally Competent Learners and Teachers - Ready for the 21st Century [Paperback]
Gudrun Petursdottir (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9789935243751
Published by : University of Iceland Press
Our classrooms are multicultural, even where there are no learners from minority ethnic backgrounds. All of our learners have different cultures: socioeconomic status, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, health and other factors contribute to ... .... Learn More
