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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Sensitive Objects: Affect & Material Culture [Hardback]
Jonas Frykman (Editor)
£30.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9789187675669
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package - things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice - on what aff... .... 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)
£34.00Click 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
The Archaeology of Cremation: Burned Human Remains in Funerary Studies [Paperback]
Tim Thompson (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781782978480
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 8
Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, while considerable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively little work has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite t... .... Learn More
Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest [Hardback]
Nicholas Brown (Author); Sarah E. Kanouse (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822944379
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely trans... .... Learn More
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