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Histories of Anthropology

"The book offers a fresh analysis of the discipline's unfolding in different nation states by tracing the historical trajectories of lesser known anthropological traditions in terms of theoretical an…

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Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices - religious, spiritual or otherwise - in places of both modernity and political trauma?This volume investigate…

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Thomas W Murphy
Unsettling Scripture

A groundbreaking exploration of the unexpected intersections between Haudenosaunee oral tradition and Latter-day Saint scriptureIn Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon , anthropologist Th…

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Thomas W Murphy
Unsettling Scripture

A groundbreaking exploration of the unexpected intersections between Haudenosaunee oral tradition and Latter-day Saint scriptureIn Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon , anthropologist Th…

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David Stuart
The Four Heavens

From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millenniaThe Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, dr…

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Ashley Lebner
The Mystic of Friendship

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon.On Brazil's Amazonian frontier, settlers pursue land and opportunity, but they also gather for prayer and pilgrimage,…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

An "exhilarating" (Irish Times ) and "ambitious" (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin.Why do humans everywhere belie…

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Matthew Bennett, David F Bustos, Daniel Odess
Those Who Walked Before

One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas.On a …

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William C Meadows
The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache

"The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spiri…

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Anke Richter
Cult Trip

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cultsAt a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when sh…

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Paul Seabright
The Divine Economy

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first cen…

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David Graeber, David Wengrow,
Anfänge

»Faszinierend, provozierend, bahnbrechend. Ein Buch, das in den kommenden Jahren für Diskussionen sorgen wird.« Rutger Bregman, Autor von »Utopien für Realisten« Ein großes Buch von gewaltiger intellektu…

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Yi Ding,
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts

Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance i…

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David Graeber, David Wengrow,
Anfänge

»Faszinierend, provozierend, bahnbrechend. Ein Buch, das in den kommenden Jahren für Diskussionen sorgen wird.« Rutger Bregman, Autor von »Utopien für Realisten« Ein großes Buch von gewaltiger intellektu…

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The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion

Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings togethe…

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Victoria Sherrow
Encyclopedia of Hair

This popular volume on the culture of hair through human history and around the globe has been updated and revised to include even more entries and current information.How we style our hair has the abilit…

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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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Ellen Hsieh
The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesAlthough Manila, capital city of the Philippines, played a critical role in economic and cultural exchanges bet…

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Rafael Sánchez,
Reconocimientos

An intimate account of Latin America between revolutionary promise and populist authoritarianism.

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Denzil Ibbetson
Panjab Castes

Denzil Ibbetson's work on the Panjab Castes is an extremely systematic and clearly arranged work. Every caste, from highest to the lowest classes of aborigines and outcastes is reviewed in much detail. It…

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