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

Amphibious Anthropologies

Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphi…

Invisible Contrarian

Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950--2019), who did pion…

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…

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

Intégrale Charlie Parker Vol.9

Elizabeth A. Murphy

The Pottery Industries of the Roman East

What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? In this study, Elizabeth Murphy approaches the topic through the lens offered by a particular set of workers, the potters and ceramicists in th…

Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra

Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, c…

Tony Waldron

Palaeopathology

An evidence based account of how to recognise and diagnose pathological lesions in human remains.

Pierre Zalloua

Ancestors

"In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from. But accl…

Janice Newberry

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory

This book describes the Raising Spirit project, a seven-year collaboration examining child-raising values among Blackfoot peoples in southern Alberta. Dilemmas faced by young Indigenous researchers led to…

Monica L. Smith

How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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…

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 …

Rebecca Sweetman

The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods

The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through analysis of the material culture produced from the late first century BCE through t…

Richard Hodges

The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia - London, Ipswich, Southampton and Yo…

Irmgard Hein, Mustafa Kibaro¿lu, Michaela Schauer

Ceramic Analysis

This Element, authored by a team of specialist researchers, provides an overview of the various analytical techniques employed in the laboratory for the examination of archaeological ceramic materials. Po…

Ester Salgarella

Writing in Bronze Age Crete

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally …

Robin Derricourt

Five Innovations That Changed Human History

Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on human lives.…

Mohammad Zaman

Anatomy of Resettlement

Anatomy of Resettlement: Ethnographic Accounts and Stories in Retrospect examines resettlement as a development strategy and the ongoing controversies and debate on resettlement as a development model. It…

Ricardo Santos Alexandre

The Task of Having to Be

At the heart of the anthropological project lies a need to tackle the conundrum of the human condition. And yet, the conundrum persists. Actually, the reflection over the conditions and possibilities of t…