Ever since Darwin established our close relationship with living apes, anthropologists have sought fossil evidence for the so-called 'missing link', a transitional form between apes and humans.
For many years, palaeoanthropologists believed that human evolution was a straightforward progression from the ape-like australopithecines, to the more human but still small-brained Homo erectus, to the larger-brained Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
This book tells the story of jurema-preta, a plant which shaped the culture of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples, and withstood oppression from colonial forces to take a leading role in today's clinical research on psychedelics.
This book presents an intimate portrayal of African migration through Mexico, based on a four-year longitudinal ethnography (2021-2025) conducted in Tijuana, Tapachula, and Mexico City.
Cet ouvrage constitue pour ainsi dire la suite des Noms de famille d'origine africaine de la population martiniquaise d'ascendance servile, publie chez le meme editeur.
Der Band vereint innovative Beitrage, die den Zusammenhang von Ethik und Literatur aus philosophischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive ausloten.
Der Band vereint innovative Beitrage, die den Zusammenhang von Ethik und Literatur aus philosophischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive ausloten.
Middle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia will show the long-term implications of current approaches to Middle East scholarship on the internal transformation of Middle Eastern societies.
Human civilizations longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet.
In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.
This book presents an intimate portrayal of African migration through Mexico, based on a four-year longitudinal ethnography (2021-2025) conducted in Tijuana, Tapachula, and Mexico City.
Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa.
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of 'mixed race' children having identity problems, that they 'don't fit in anywhere', showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity.
This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.
This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.
Das vorliegende Buch entwickelt eine neopragmatistische horizontale Geographie, die Raum und Landschaft nicht als gegebene Entitäten, sondern als relationale, kontingente und kommunikative Gefüge begreift.
Das vorliegende Buch entwickelt eine neopragmatistische horizontale Geographie, die Raum und Landschaft nicht als gegebene Entitäten, sondern als relationale, kontingente und kommunikative Gefüge begreift.
This edited collection discusses conceptual ambiguities related indigenous groups in India, known as Adivasis (original inhabitants), and focuses particularly on Central Indian indigenous groups.
This edited collection discusses conceptual ambiguities related indigenous groups in India, known as Adivasis (original inhabitants), and focuses particularly on Central Indian indigenous groups.
In the year 2000, the presidents of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia agreed to construct the Interoceanic Highway as part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America.
In the year 2000, the presidents of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia agreed to construct the Interoceanic Highway as part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America.
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of 'mixed race' children having identity problems, that they 'don't fit in anywhere', showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity.
On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men-including traders, soldiers, and government agents-sometimes married Native women.
