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

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…

Nancy Bonvillain

Language, Culture, and Communication

Language, Culture, and Communication introduces students to the topics and theories of the broad field of linguistic anthropology by examining the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It emphasizes…

Dean Falk

The Botanic Age

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of…

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…

Laura Feldt

Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness

Ancient wilderness mythologies have been criticised for their role in forming anthropocentric outlooks on the natural world, and idealising human separateness from the rest of the living world. Laura Feld…

Ian Riddler, Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski

The Craft of Antler, Bone, Horn and Ivory Working in the Early Medieval Emporia c. AD 600-850

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the craft of antler, bone, horn and ivory working as it evolved within the pre-Viking emporia of northern Europe.Over the past few decades, studies of early med…

Joss Hands

The Public Brain

Joss Hands connects the historic understanding of the brain with the history and politics and the democracy to address the current concerns about social media, democratic collapse and technological contro…

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

Intégrale Charlie Parker Vol.9

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…

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…

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 …

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

Roads to Prosperity and Ruin

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gateway to the famed Chichén Itzá archaeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail mega…

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.

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 …