Anthropology – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Virgínia Amaral,
Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the influence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement in Northern Amazonia.

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A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)
Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is s…

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Webb Keane
Animals, Robots, Gods

A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Anim…

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Luke Kemp
Goliath's Curse

"In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything , Goliath's Curse provides a novel theory of civil…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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Francesca Rochberg
Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a …

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Nastassja Martin,
East of Dreams

"After working in Alaska with the Gwich'in people, Nastassja Martin crossed the Bering Strait to begin comparative research in Kamchatka. During the Soviet era, the Even, a nomadic reindeer herding p…

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Markus Eberl
War Owl Falling

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

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Monuments and Memory

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of hi…

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Louis G Perez, R W Purdy
Modern Japan

Organized by theme, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines all aspects of life in Japan, from geography and government to food and etiquette and much more.Japan, or the "Land of the Rising Sun,&quo…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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Elizabeth J. Reitz, Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman, Elizabeth S. Wing
Zooarchaeology

This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the pre…

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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire.The complex and multifaceted roles pla…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Antioch on the Orontes

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence sp…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Peter Mitchell
The Archaeology of Southern Africa

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states an…

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