Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • Post-Migration Experiences, Cultural Practices and Homemaking
    Sabrina Dinmohamed
    Shining a light on previously ’invisible’ immigrant communities, this book explores how attention to feelings of home and cultural practices provides insights into immigrants’ settlement experiences. ...
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    143,11 €

  • Cultural Treasures
    Kevan Joey
    profound impact that books have on our culture, identity, and shared human experience. Thisthought-provoking book delves into the multifaceted ways in which books shape and enrich ourlives, shedding light on their enduring significance in an ever-evolving world.Drawing from a diverse array of perspectives and case studies, 'Cultural Treasures' examineshow books serve as reposit...
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    29,41 €

  • The Psychology of Ancient Egypt
    Brian J. McVeigh
    Building upon Julian Jaynes’s theory of bicameral mentality, Brian McVeigh reconstructs the worldview of ancient Egypt, with its innumerable gods and goddesses, magnificent temples, and monumental mortuary architecture. By surveying the spiritual landscape of glorified ancestors, radiant gods, and a theocentric social order crowned by awe-inspiring pharaohs that lasted for thre...
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    23,82 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    48,07 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    169,68 €

  • The Yalaku
    Ross Bowden
    This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare ...
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    219,77 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    36,55 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    138,40 €

  • Navigating Jihad
    Mansukh Srivastava
    In the complex landscape of global affairs, few subjects evoke as much intrigue, controversy, and concern as 'Jihad' in 'Navigation Through Jihad: Understanding Motivations, Histories, and Modern Realities,' the veil is lifted on this multifaceted concept, offering readers a comprehensive exploration that goes beyond the surface to uncover the intricacies that have shaped its e...
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    48,50 €

  • Dear Sister
    Dannielle
    In this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and experiences of Black women. Tackling topics covering their experiences, including identity, beauty standards, relationships, mental health, career challenges, and societal expectati...
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    21,72 €

  • Celtiform Pendants from Pre-Columbian Costa Rica
    Waka Kuboyama-Haraikawa
    This volume elucidates the lapidary technologies and social organisation of pre-Columbian Costa Rica (500 BCE - 900 CE) by analysing the manufacturing and social role of lapidary ornaments, known as celtiform pendants.These pendants are characterised by skilfully decorated carvings on celtiform semiprecious rocks and minerals, such as jadeite. A human or animal face is carved o...
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    104,33 €

  • Rochelongue Shipwreck
    Enrique Aragón-Núñez
    The Rochelongue site has yielded a remarkable assembly of mostly metallic objects from both local and foreign provenances. This allows for an investigation into the connectivity in the western Mediterranean through the lens of regional and long-distance maritime trade networks.This research uses an interdisciplinary approach to the archaeological metals assemblage - combining g...
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    96,10 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • (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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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