Anthropology

Over 3 million years ago, our ancestors realised that rocks could be broken apart for sharp edges, to cut and slice meat.

Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !

This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and as a category in the media.

This book explores the discourse of traditional values and local practices within the formal educational system in Senegal, investigating how these cultural elements are present in the daily life of the community and integrated into formal schools and teaching.

This book explores the discourse of traditional values and local practices within the formal educational system in Senegal, investigating how these cultural elements are present in the daily life of the community and integrated into formal schools and teaching.

Going Indian explores Indian (as opposed to tribal) ethnic identity among Native American people in Oklahoma through their telling, in their own words, of how they became Indian and what being Indian means to them today.

This book is about home and international law.

Roman Britain (1935) is Franzero's personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day - some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose.

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world.

This volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberias unique history by five Russian scholars.

An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada.

This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender.

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance.

In Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, Sigmund Freud extends psychoanalysis beyond the clinic into anthropology, religion, and the origins of culture.

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective.

An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland, explored through an ever-evolving musical genre of love songs.

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation.

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment.

This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi.

In den philosophischen Debatten gewinnen anthropologische Fragestellungen zunehmend an Bedeutung.

This book brings together a selection of articles that have been published throughout a series of special issues of the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies that originally focused on the so-called 'ethnographic turn' in contemporary arts.

Among the main questions relating to the interpretation of popular religiosity phenomena there are those on the usefulness of historical sources (archaeological and documentary) for the purposes of understanding the mythical-ritual present, on the presumed chronological continuity of practices and beliefs and on the legitimacy and effectiveness of historical-comparative method.

This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica.

This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica.

A New Yorker Book of the Year 2024A Ryan Holiday '(Very) Best Book I Read in 2024'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian'Surprisingly revealing' The Sunday TimesWe see notebooks everywhere we go.

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Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity's relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure.

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror.

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation.

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact.

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development.

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

Examines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya.

Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity's relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure.

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.

Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia examines the rise of young preachers of Arab descent (habaib) and their sermon groups in the region and shows how Islam and politics coexist, flourish, interlace, and strive in Indonesia in complex, pragmatic, and mutually beneficial relationships.

Through an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials.

To many individuals and organisations, situations generated by the world coronavirus pandemic have posed challenges and opportunities.

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.