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  • Fei Xiaotong Studies, Vol. II, Chinese edition
    The year 2016 was a significant year for honouring Professor Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), because it was the 80th anniversary of his fieldwork in Kaixiangong Village.Fei Xiaotong Studies (Volume 2) consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The main articles focus on Fei Xiaotong and related studies, with China in comparative perspective...
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    73,94 €

  • Psychology of Revolution
    Gustave Lebon
    The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. ...
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    27,92 €

  • CHINA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES
    WENXIAN ZHANG
    Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictur...
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    165,78 €

  • Growing Up in Transit
    Danau Tanu
    In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being "international" that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnat...
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    184,05 €

  • Permaculture Plants
    Jeff Nugent
    The comprehensive guide to edible  and useful Agaves and Cacti. Productive plants for land rehabilitation. Plants which survive uncertain rainfall. Drought and snow resistant plants. Staples  of  ancient  cultures. Low effort emergency food. Extensively  indexed. Over 400 useful species covered. ...
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    26,20 €

  • Canibalismo en la Cueva de Malamuerzo
    Ana Solari Giachino / Inmaculada Alemán Aguilera / Miguel Botella López
    This volume focuses on: the identification of indelible traces recorded on bones; on human actions associated with these marks; and finally on human behaviours that led to actions performed on bodies around the time of death. The research joins a long line of studies focused on cannibalism recognition, as one of the behaviours associated with death carried out by different soci...
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    80,05 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    "Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites." -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    44,45 €

  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities
    Edited by H. L. Cobb, F. Coward, L. Grimshaw and S. Price.This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theo...
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    60,70 €

  • Cypriana
    SAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have recently been the focus of a resurgence of interest in the English-speaking world. It has been remarked that they stand at a crossroads of the so-called Old and New Worlds, forming an intermediary nexus of Christian thaumaturgy and older pagan mysteries. The former, an infernal sorcerer-saint an...
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    34,77 €

  • Rewild or Die
    Urban Scout
    Rewild or Die is a collection of essays written by Urban Scout exploring the philosophy of the emerging rewilding renaissance, in which civilized humans are thought to be 'domesticated' through thousands of years of sedentary, agrarian life. This way of life is believed to be the root of all environmental destruction and social injustice. Rewilding is the process of un-doing th...
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    16,82 €

  • How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
    Mei-Ling Hopgood
    A tour of global practices that will inspire American parents to expand their horizons (and geographical borders) and learn that there’s more than one way to diaper a baby. Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan-now living in Buenos Aires-was shocked that Argentine parents allow their children to stay up until all hours of the night. Could there really be soc...
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    13,53 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas
    Robert Grant Haliburton
    Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years proposing the existence of a distinctive tribal group of small stature within the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. He collected local stories and eyewitness accounts of this 'dwarf people,' debated critics, and published theories. These curious tales disappeared (or at least were never investigated fully) after Haliburton died, but he l...
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    19,93 €

  • SOCIAL STIGMA AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
    TAI WEI LIM SATOSHI ABE
    In this book, the focus is on five Asian countries/regions (Iran, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan) that show distinct approaches to combating infections. It specifically examines how the recent pandemic arose stigma in the context of history and sociocultural relations, how it is discussed and problematized among locals, and how disparate institutions and individua...
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    105,97 €

  • Eating Is an English Word
    Annemarie Mol
    Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may fuse eating with breathing, or distinguish chupar from comer. Anthropologists flag such differences by leaving a few of their words untranslated, but what language do we think in? Th...
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    128,49 €

  • Eating Is an English Word
    Annemarie Mol
    Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may fuse eating with breathing, or distinguish chupar from comer. Anthropologists flag such differences by leaving a few of their words untranslated, but what language do we think in? Th...
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    33,17 €

  • Voices in the Dark
    Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
    Humanitarianism is in crisis: refugee numbers increase every year and humanitarian agencies are struggling to meet the needs of displaced people. In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to prov...
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    184,50 €

  • Calibrated Engagement
    Stéphen Huard
    For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Power of Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar. The book presents situations as varied as loca...
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    197,94 €

  • Tactical Citizenships
    Theodoros Kouros
    The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts-in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday exercises or refusals of citizenship rights, in the purposeful defiance of norms, and in the tactical evasions of duties. This book e...
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    184,59 €

  • Living on a Time Bomb
    Svenja Schöneich
    Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties usi...
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    26,58 €

  • The Return of Polyandry
    Heidi E. Fjeld
    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan social lives. This book takes as its starting point the surprising incre...
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    26,56 €

  • Can Academics Change the World?
    Moshe Shokeid
    Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). However, since the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and the later obliteration of the Oslo accord, public mani...
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    40,48 €

  • Selfishness and Selflessness
    Linda L. Layne
    We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ’proper’ and ’improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection. Contribu...
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    47,27 €

  • Nourishing Life
    Arianna Huhn
    In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generativ...
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    47,30 €

  • Playing the Hand We Are Dealt
    Michael Jackson
    The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ’hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as...
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    184,16 €

  • Crítica Da Cachaça Pura
    Ronaldo Teixeira / Vanderson Patrícia Maria Weffort
    Saudações, camaradas cachaceiros e filósofos de boteco! Se acheguem, que eu, Zeca Xaçado, vou contar pra vocês a prosa boa que é o Crítica da Cachaça Pura, uma obra escrita por dois sábios cachaciers, V. R. Teixeira e P. M. Weffort. Esse livrinho é uma verdadeira celebração à sabedoria que nasce entre um gole de cachaça e outro. Aqui, a cachaça não é apenas uma bebida, mas um e...
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    17,63 €

  • Ethnicity in the Ontario Woodland Tradition
    Lawrence J. Jackson
    This book examines Ontario woodland tradition archaeology in the context of archaeological statements of ethnicity and their reliability in the interpretation of the archaeological record. It focuses on Southern Ontario circa 1300 to 1650 A.D., the time of the Algonquin and Huron Alliance (Sioui and Labelle 2014). Evidence is provided for a highly interactive multicultural land...
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    77,55 €

  • The Banality of Good
    Lieba Faier
    In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member-state governments. Focusing on Japan’s efforts to enact the UN’s counter-trafficking protocol and assist Filipina migrants working in Japan’s sex industry, Fai...
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    138,36 €


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