Anthropology

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This edited volume contains valuable information for museums and academic institutions concerning the care and conservation of human remains.

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The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

A firsthand look at how business owners in Havana navigate the changing Cuban market and stateThe Struggle for the Market tells the story of Cuba's economic reforms in the 2010s, focusing on the experiences a group of small business owners known as cuentapropistas.

Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods, services, and people in history.

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.

The year 2015 is the Chinese Year of the Goat - what will this mean for you?

Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.

Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.

This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become.

In science, race can be a useful concept-for specific, limited purposes.

Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles.

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.

In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew-the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition-and Yiddish-the East European Jewish vernacular-were "e;a match made in heaven that cannot be separated.

During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror.

In rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar.

In this highly original and engaging work, Sombatpoonsiri explores the nexus between humor and nonviolent protest, aiming to enhance our understanding of the growing popularity of humor in protest movements around the world.

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland.

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "e;wampum"e; to form intricately woven belts.

Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationalism and participated in its development over the course of the twentieth century.

Recent years have seen cultural memory become a significant element in area studies and the humanities.

In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In Preserving the Old City of Damascus, Totah examines the recent gentrification of the historic urban core of the Syrian capital and the ways in which urban space becomes the site for negotiating new economic and social realities.

Reflecting twenty years of research and experience-after working with guerrilla fighters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, with Iranian refugees in Istanbul, with interreligious reconciliation groups in Morocco, and with former political prisoners in South Africa-Segall offers a groundbreaking study of globalization, gender, and resistance in public spaces.

Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance.

Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women.

The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century.

Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine.

Founded in 1909 as a "e;garden suburb"e; of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival.

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue.

From an analysis of the Guinness brand's reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole.

Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors.

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term "e;memory"e; in re-cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic.

Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles.

Why Men Don't Iron is an eye-opening, mind-blowing book on how the major sex differences in our brains impact on our daily lives and behaviour.

A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.

One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.

This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.

The new, fully-updated edition of Collins Tracing Your Family History is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past.

Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, 'Connected' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of how social networks operate.

The ancient Chinese martial art of Xingyi Quan is known for its explosive internal power.

* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category *The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony.

One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want.

'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century.