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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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
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
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 bo... .... 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
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 bo... .... Learn More -
Paint it, Black: A biography of kohl containers [Hardback]
Jolanda Bos (Author)
£49.50ISBN: 9789492940070
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Paint it, Black covers the remarkable history of kohl containers from the Early Bronze Age to the present day, including ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, the culture of the Early Islamic Period and the present-day cultures of North Africa and West A... .... 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
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 -
Open Invitation, The: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect [Hardback]
Freya Schiwy (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822965749
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from t... .... Learn More -
Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival [Hardback]
J. Rosie Tighe (Editor); Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (Editor)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822945635
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust B... .... 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 -
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 -
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality: Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens [Paperback]
Ruggero D’Alessandro (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 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
