Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • 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 €

  • Native American Psychosocial Identity
    Eugene 'Gene' Hightower
    Native American Psychosocial Identity: Worldviews and Community Structures explores the psychosocial identities of Native Americans - American Indians, Canadian First Nations, and Native Hawaiians from an interdisciplinary perspective. Written by Native American studies scholars, the book discusses the impact of the genocide perpetuated on Native Americans, including wars, dise...
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    73,51 €

  • Native American Psychosocial Identity
    Eugene 'Gene' Hightower
    Eugene 'Gene' Hightower is a research associate and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught Native American Psychology courses at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. His academic training took place at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, The Wright Institute, and University of ...
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    100,01 €

  • Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
    Lee Haring
    The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglecte...
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    37,29 €

  • Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
    Lee Haring
    The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglecte...
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    54,24 €

  • Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South
    There are inequalities in global knowledge production in communication outlets, cultural practices, and governance problems. Under this symbiotic relationship, they reinforce the cultural ideas, values, and governance systems operating in the Western countries as an ideal and role model for the Global South countries. Media is regarded as the agent of change for communication a...
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    354,52 €

  • Public Toilets (Foricae) and Sanitation in the Ancient Roman World
    Antonella Patricia Merletto
    This monograph studies the architectural history of ancient public toilets, called foricae. Using comparative data and historical, archaeological and literary sources, this comprehensive analysis of foricae offers a deeper understanding of their origin in the Hellenistic period. It also examines their diffusion in the ancient Roman world through advances in hydraulic technology...
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    168,97 €

  • When East Meets West. Volume II
    This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407319810 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407353647 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407359717 (Set of both volumes). This volume represents the first large-scale reconsideration of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods in broader Mesoamerica in 20 years. In part, the focus is to examine the influence of the ruins of Classic period Teotihuacan...
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    244,77 €

  • When East Meets West. Volume I
    This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407319810 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407353647 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407359717 (Set of both volumes). This volume represents the first large-scale reconsideration of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods in broader Mesoamerica in 20 years. In part, the focus is to examine the influence of the ruins of Classic period Teotihuacan...
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    245,45 €

  • Ship Timbers from the Islamic Sites of al-Balid and Qalhat, Oman
    Alessandro Ghidoni
    The sewn-plank ships that sailed the Indian Ocean during the medieval Islamic period carried people, goods, and ideas between East Africa, Arabia, India, and China. Despite their key role, we know relatively little about them. To date, archaeological work related to sewn boats in the region has been limited, while the few textual references generally lack crucial details regard...
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    121,91 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship
    Sandra Bamford
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    51,80 €

  • Passport island
    Theodoros Rakopoulos
    This book shows how instead of an isolated case, the Cyprus Papers are a new version of the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers: the global trade in passports is the continuation of offshore financial processes by other means. ...
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    157,23 €

  • Heritage and Culture-Discovering the Heart and Soul of the Capitals
    Kelli Tempest
    Heritage and Culture: Discovering the Heart and Soul of the Capitals is an exciting and informative journey through the history, culture, and society of some of the world’s most fascinating cities. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in discovering the hidden gems of the world’s capitals and understanding the importance of heritage and culture in shaping their identi...
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    10,51 €

  • The Future Equation
    Mekiki Magazine
    'The Future Equation: Balancing Humanity and Technology' is a collection of essays that navigate the complexities of technology’s influence on society and humankind. This thought-provoking book examines the transformative impact of emerging innovations and invites readers to reflect on our ever-evolving world. Each essay offers unique perspectives, stimulating contemplation on ...
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    23,86 €

  • The Trans-Australian Wonderland
    A.G. Bolam
    The first book written on the natural history of life on the Nullabor Plain, was written by station-master A.G. Bolam and first published in 1923. The author recollects his times with Aboriginal trackers and workers in and around Ooldeah, as the great railway progressed from South Australia across to Western Australia, and in doing so looks at animal and bird life and the uniqu...
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    19,07 €

  • The Tales of Kamanda
    Kama Sywor Kamanda
    Kamanda’s marvellous tales open the doors of the imagination and take us on a journey of discovery into the wonders, customs, cultures and civilizations of the African world. Lively and full of humor, they take us on a journey and soothe us at the same time. ...
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    46,39 €

  • Homo Eurasicus
    Richard L Bland
    This volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberia’s unique history by five Russian scholars. The volume is edited by Prof. Elena A. Okladnikova, a faculty member of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The articles include discussions of seafaring along the Siberian coast, ethnolinguistic considerations, the worldv...
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    199,97 €

  • Border images, border narratives
    This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings. ...
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    35,56 €

  • Afterlives of war
    Michael Roper
    This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in shaping the memory of the First World War since 1918 ...
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    42,40 €

  • Pottery Craft of the Yakut
    Andrei A Savvin
    This book offered to the reader’s attention is an ethnographic study devoted to the traditional pottery of Yakutia. The author, A. A. Savvin, collected materials for the book during field research in 1939-1941, when ceramic tableware had largely already lost its former role in the household way of the Yakuts. But the skills for its manufacture were still preserved in certain lo...
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    199,97 €

  • Vodou en Vogue
    Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
    In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners’ everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing ...
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    128,84 €

  • Borders of desire
    Borders of Desire is a collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe, particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce desire, particularly gendered and sexualized desire. ...
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    157,61 €

  • Darkwater
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    ''Darkwater: Voices From Within The Veil'' is a powerful collection of essays and reflections by W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century. Published in 1920, this thought-provoking work delves into the complex issues of race, identity, and social justice. Darkwater: Voices From Within The Veil'' is a powerful collection of e...
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    15,46 €

  • Friendship
    Michael Jackson
    In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle’s accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne’s famous essay on friendship as a form of...
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    113,01 €

  • Turkish Drama Serials
    Miriam Berg
    Examines the reach and reception of Turkish drama serials in the Middle East and Latin America, exploring what it is that makes Turkish television so successful as entertainment in places as diverse as Qatar, Chile and Israel. ...
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    128,00 €

  • Landscapes of Care
    Thurka Sangaramoorthy
    This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care deliv...
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    127,24 €

  • Landscapes of Care
    Thurka Sangaramoorthy
    This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care deliv...
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    29,24 €

  • The migrations of early culture; A study of the significance of the geographical distribution of the practice of mummification as evidence of the migrations of peoples and the spread of certain custom
    Grafton Elliot Smith
    The migrations of early culture; A study of the significance of the geographical distribution of the practice of mummification as evidence of the migrations of peoples and the spread of certain customs and beliefs by Grafton Elliot Smith has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to en...
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    22,28 €

  • Folkloristic aspects in museum studies
    Herbert Jenewein
    As a branch of cultural education in folklore, museum studies is a part of the educational system. Objects or exhibits of cultural value are kept in a museum. They are exhibited publicly for enjoyment and education. Explored they can be in a variety of ways.Museum studies deals with visitor-oriented methods, targeted according to visitor groups and mediation offers. The objects...
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    49,68 €


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