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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

This lyrical ethnography sheds light on the lives of people in remote settlements in Canada, exploring themes of memory and the lingering legacies of resource extraction and rural poverty.

lieferbar ab 20.10.2025.

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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual

Re/Search - volume 12

First published 20 years ago, "Modern Primitives" is still called "the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground." Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction …

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Eliot Stein
Custodians of Wonder

"A vivid look at the ten key people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving…

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Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology

This book highlights approaches to archaeological research that emphasize active involvement of local communities and descendant groups in the design, investigation, interpretation, and management of site…

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R Alexander Bentley, Michael J O'Brien
Collaborators Through Time

Spanning 2 million years, this book examines how humans partnered with nature, technology, and each other to shape their world, from evolutionary origins and ancient innovations to the rise of artificial …

lieferbar ab 8.1.2026.

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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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Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Evolution, which has in recent years matured into an increasingly diverse and wide-reaching but intellectually cohe…

lieferbar ab 30.10.2025.

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David A B Murray
Queer Anthropology

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging …

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David A B Murray
Queer Anthropology

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging …

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Myriam Lamrani
The Intimacy of Images

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other "special dead."

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Hervé Corvellec
Waste as a Critique

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.

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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…

lieferbar ab 14.5.2026.

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Kristina Wirtz
Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería

Examining the religious lives of Santería practitioners in Santiago de Cuba, this book explores how practitioners of different backgrounds create and maintain religious communities.

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Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
The Privileged Few

Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, leg…

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David C Thompson
Where the Sun Rises Square

"Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 800,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazi…

lieferbar ab 25.11.2025.

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Myriam Lamrani
The Intimacy of Images

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other "special dead."

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Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Naturekind

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discove…

lieferbar ab 7.10.2025.

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David C Thompson
Where the Sun Rises Square

"Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 800,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazi…

lieferbar ab 25.11.2025.

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Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T L Taylor
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

"Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to…

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Caroline M Parker
Carceral Citizens

"In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline Parker offers an ethnographic portrait of faith-based therapeutic communities in Puerto Rico. A joint product of the carceral state and the non-profit s…

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