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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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 -
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 Publication
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 -
The Archaeology of Darkness [Paperback]
Marion Dowd (Editor); Robert Hensey (Editor)
£32.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785701917
Published by : Oxbow Books
Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community... .... Learn More -
Indian Detours: Tourism in Native North America [Paperback]
Pieter Hovens (Editor); Mette van der Hooft (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088903366
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
Volume: 45
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere is the history of the tourist encounter between Native peoples and Euro-America... .... Learn More -
Malaita [Paperback]
Ben Burt (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592012
Published by : British Museum Press
Volume: 201
Malaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world. This book explore... .... Learn More -
A Very Seductive Body Politic: Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema [Paperback]
Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Author)
£8.50ISBN: 9788857526683
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Italian Frame
Volume: 1
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the co... .... Learn More
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives [Paperback]
Gina Athena Ulysse (Author); Robin D.G. Kelley (Other)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819575456
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically i... .... Learn More
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