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  • GIS Applications in Roman Landscape and Territory
    Geographic Information Systems applied to the study of the landscape and territory of Roman times are currently a common practice in historical and archaeological studies. This book analyzes the issue for the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, Spain and Portugal, transcending the current administrative border. In this book, the most innovative methodologies and results for the study...
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    116,99 €

  • Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
    Sidney Gig-Jan Wong
    A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 reflects on his li...
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    23,73 €

  • Creative Resistance
    Cindy Horst
    How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question - it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this book belong to three extraordinary individuals who found a path to hope through action in the face of vio...
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    23,44 €

  • Matilda Coxe Stevenson
    Darlis A. Miller
    The first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis A. Miller challenges older interpretations of her subject’s life and work as she traces one woman’s quest for professional recognition in ...
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    35,17 €

  • Bihar Days
    Carolyn Brown Heinz
    Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige of this elite was based on a lifestyle prescribed by ancient law codes involving simplicity of life, daily Vedic rites, and in...
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    18,42 €

  • Dark Nature
    Blake Salemink
    This is Part 1 and Part 2 of my story. It deals with the main character and some other writing. In nature you are never alone.This book is dedicated to the living memory of Colette Marie Salemink born January 16th 1951 and died April 19th 2010.It is a testament to the time I’ve spent in nature as well as romance, fictional vampires, that I loved being a vampire as a child.Natur...
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    34,13 €

  • Transnational Spaces
    This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA’s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of space, national, and cultural geographies; to foster both the re-thinking of language(s) and literature(s) no...
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    39,96 €

  • Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons
    Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
    This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America. ...
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    158,25 €

  • Hunters among Farmers
    Akira Takada
    Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !Xun of north-central Namibia a voice in their own history. In contrast to other marginalised San minorities, the !Xun foster co-operative relationships with their neighbours, the Ovawambo and with the state. In the face of radical social changes over the past century, they have maintained traditional hunting and gathering a...
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    44,81 €

  • (C)over Your Head
    One of the most enduring symbol of Moorish presence the world over: the Moslem turban. Seeking to invoke the impression of an educational stroll through a niche art gallery, this text examines the Moslem Turban from a Moorish American perspective using historical references. Includes the metaphysical meanings of decorative elements, adaptations over time and space, wrapping ins...
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    24,26 €

  • Der Heilige Georg
    Mustafa Yakup Diktaş
    Die Menschen im Mittelmeerraum haben eine gemeinsame Art, ihren Glauben zu leben und zu praktizieren, die religiösen Spaltungen und politischen Manipulationen widersteht. Die religiöse Landschaft des östlichen Mittelmeerraums ist komplexer und durch Formen der interkonfessionellen Konvergenz gekennzeichnet. Diese Arbeit ist ein anthropologischer Blick auf die politischen und ku...
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    133,57 €

  • Saint Georges
    Mustafa Yakup Diktaş
    Les peuples du bassin méditerranéen partagent des manières de vivre et de pratiquer leur foi, qui résistent aux divisions religieuses et aux manipulations politiques. Le paysage religieux de la Méditerranée orientale est plus complexe et marqué par des formes de convergence interconfessionnelle. Cette thèse est un regard anthropologique vers une lecture des changements politiqu...
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    133,61 €

  • São Jorge
    Mustafa Yakup Diktaş
    Os povos da bacia do Mediterrâneo partilham formas de viver e praticar a sua fé, que resistem às divisões religiosas e às manipulações políticas. A paisagem religiosa do Mediterrâneo Oriental é mais complexa e é marcada por formas de convergência interconfessional. Esta tese é um olhar antropológico para uma leitura das mudanças políticas e culturais que afectam os santuários e...
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    133,64 €

  • Святой Георгий
    Мустафа Якуп Дикташ
    Народы Средиземноморского бассейна имеют общие способы жизни и исповедания веры, которые противостоят религиозным разделениям и политическим манипуляциям. Религиозный ландшафт Восточного Средиземноморья более сложен и характеризуется формами межконфессионального сближения. Данная диссертация представляет собой антропологический взгляд на прочтение политических и культурных изме...
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    70,86 €

  • Hawaiian Legends
    William Hyde Rice
    'Mr. Rice’s theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook, there were bards and storytellers, either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs...these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical incidents or natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories, which were hand...
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    17,87 €

  • San Giorgio
    Mustafa Yakup Diktaş
    I popoli del bacino del Mediterraneo condividono modi di vivere e praticare la propria fede, che resistono alle divisioni religiose e alle manipolazioni politiche. Il panorama religioso del Mediterraneo orientale è più complesso ed è segnato da forme di convergenza interconfessionale. Questa tesi è uno sguardo antropologico verso una lettura dei cambiamenti politici e culturali...
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    133,65 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    140,67 €

  • Genomics with Care
    Mike Fortun
    In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics. Fortun examines genomics in terms of care-a dense composite of affective and cognitive forces that drive scientists and the relations they form with their objec...
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    37,75 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    37,50 €

  • Lev Shternberg
    Kan Sergei / Glebovskaya Aleksandra
    ENGThis intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country’s peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethn...
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    61,11 €

  • Anthropology in the Making
    Atiba L. Rougier
    Anthropology in the Making: A Reader provides students with a collection of essays that trace the discipline of anthropology over the past 20 years through the editor’s personal experiences as a student and a lecturer. It features a timely perspective that considers contemporary intersectionalities of gender, generational differences, nationalities, traditional and cultural inh...
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    71,08 €

  • The Toquaht Archaeological Project
    Alan D. McMillan / Denis E. St. Claire / Gregory G. Monks
    The Toquaht Archaeological Project was led by the authors in cooperation with the Toquaht First Nation, one of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of western Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The Nuu-chah-nulth formerly lived in large villages of plank-covered houses facing the sea, relying on a wide variety of fish species and marine mammals, including large whales. This volume prese...
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    83,18 €

  • La cerámica 'blanca lisa' del convento franciscano de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
    Elena E. Sosa Suárez
    En el año 1992 se realizó la excavación arqueológica del solar en el que estuvo ubicado el antiguo Convento de San Francisco de Asís de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. La importancia de esta intervención radicó en que se trataba de un edificio fundado a finales del siglo XV, en fechas próximas a la conquista de la isla por la Corona de Castilla. Entre el abundante material exhumado...
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    112,67 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    100,85 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    38,12 €

  • Мертвое время
    Светлана Еремеева
    Книга исследовательницы Светланы Еремеевой представляет собой анализ репрезентаций военных похорон 2022 года в публичном пространстве. Автор стремился выяснить не столько то, как сегодня хоронят военных, сколько то, что это значит для его близких, для общества и государства в целом. Определяя контуры жизненных миров, стоящих за проводами погибших, автор показывает несостоятельн...
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    27,68 €

  • Sonic Histories of Occupation
    This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the wo...
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    51,03 €

  • The Afterlife in Akhmim
    Wahid Omran
    The El-Salamuni mountain, the main necropolis of Akhmim during the Graeco-Roman period, is still relatively intact and largely archaeologically unexplored. This book contains the first contextual data of El-Salamuni. It examines the great heritage significance of the necropolis, its topography, the history of its investigation, as well as the special characteristics of the fune...
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    156,21 €

  • Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages [electronic Resource]
    Iwan 1872-1922 Bloch
    Discover the fascinating and sometimes unsettling practices of sexual cultures throughout history and around the world. Iwan Bloch provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of sexual practices and attitudes in various cultures. From ancient civilizations to contemporary societies, readers will gain a better understanding of the diversity of human sexual behavior and customs....
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    36,50 €

  • New Lives for Old; Cultural Transformation
    Margaret Mead
    This is a classic study of the cultural transformation of Manus Island in the years before and after World War II, and the impact it had on the lives of the islanders.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possib...
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    44,20 €