Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • Languaging Class
    Ortu
    This volume explores the issue of social class from the point of view of its linguistic articulations. Indeed, as Machin and Richardson (2008) stated, 'discourses may be variously approached as (often simultaneously) reflecting class structures, as a site of class inequalities, as expressive of class identities or class consciousness and/or as a constituent part of more perform...
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    60,62 €

  • A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Women Land Rights in Kisii County, Kenya, 1895 - 1970
    Makana E. Nicolas / Mallion K. Onyambu / Prisca T. Tanui
    In most societies in different parts of the world, there are gender inequalities in access to productive resources such as land, and other social, economic, and environmental resources that are critical for people’s sustenance. However, in many instances, not much research has been conducted on those critical gender issues and perceived unfairness in the ownership, access, and ...
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    42,03 €

  • Handbook of Research on Exploring Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through an Intersectional Lens
    Eleni Meletiadou
    Organizations worldwide have introduced equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies to address the inherent disadvantages experienced by employees with diverse social identities in different national contexts. EDI policies are present to address the inherent disadvantages and inequalities experienced by a diverse workforce. The Handbook of Research on Exploring Gender Equ...
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    354,58 €

  • The Festival of Indra
    Michael Baltutis
    Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. ...
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    121,65 €

  • The Clarks of Willsborough Point
    Darcey Hale
    The stuff of social and cultural history is the people - how they were born, lived, worked, and died - and it all happened within the context of their times and their locales. The treasure trove of thousands of documents, diaries, business records and all manner of day-to-day things, the clothing they wore and textiles they sewed and wove, the beautiful and usually mundane cont...
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    15,83 €

  • The Diary of Connie Shakespear
    Connie Shakespear
    Connie Shakespear’s ’Diary’ is a record of her travels as she accompanied her husband (a Captain in the Naga Hills Military Police) through the Naga Hills district of N.E. India in 1900-1902. The book documents the indigenous people and their life in Naga villages as well as elements of the British administration at that time. As the wife of a soldier in the Indian Army Connie ...
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    18,14 €

  • The Pessimist Virus
    Gibran Banhakeia / Hassan Banhakeia
    Sembratiri, man without shadow, is a man without age. He haunts history, strewing his steps as the days that erase his presence. A Moor, perhaps a dead man, rejected on all the banks to where dream does not belong to him. His fellow traveller, the swallow, will also suffer on the lands of exile. She is the bird of all the dreams of the being, the human voice which reflects and ...
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    62,08 €

  • El Monte
    Lydia Cabrera
    First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature...
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    50,01 €

  • El Monte
    Lydia Cabrera
    First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature...
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    178,58 €

  • TASTE
    Arthur Asa Berger
    Taste is an enigmatic topic. We recognize that taste plays an important role in our life in that everything we buy and many things we do are governed by our sense of taste. But what exactly is taste? How do we get our sense of taste and how does it affect our everyday lives? Does it evolve as we grow older or is it a constant in our lives? Is it affected by all the 'influencers...
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    40,98 €

  • Introduction to Anthropology (paperback, b&w)
    David G. Lewis / Jennifer Hasty / Marjorie M. Snipes
    Black & white print.Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on ant...
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    45,90 €

  • Introduction to Anthropology (hardcover, full color)
    David G. Lewis / Jennifer Hasty / Marjorie M. Snipes
    Color print.Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropolog...
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    110,65 €

  • A Vital Frontier
    Andrea Muehlebach
    In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach situates water as a political fault line at the frontiers of financialization, showing how the seemingly relentless expansion of...
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    128,19 €

  • A Vital Frontier
    Andrea Muehlebach
    In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach situates water as a political fault line at the frontiers of financialization, showing how the seemingly relentless expansion of...
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    34,17 €

  • Paris in the Americas
    Carole Salmon
    Across centuries, France -and especially its capital city, Paris- established itself as a major source of influence across the Americas through colonization, diplomacy and political influence, but also through intellectualism and cultural productions of all sorts, either by imposition, exportation or as a trend of fashion via a bilateral transatlantic movement of people and ide...
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    61,73 €

  • A MASTERPIECE OF TRANSLATIONS
    Rukhsatbegim Hojieva
    This book, which consists of stories and riddles, is a very useful source for both children and young people. It was created to make children interested in pictures and to have a spiritual effect on adults. The first page of the book has a table of contents, with which readers can read a story or riddle on a topic of interest. After each story, corresponding pictures are also g...
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    34,26 €

  • The Rise of Tourism in China
    Yiping Li
    This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China’s tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that a delicate balance between these is needed to achieve sustainable tourism. ...
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    182,02 €

  • The Perils of Race-Thinking
    Mark A. Brandon
    Eugenics and scientific racism are experiencing a resurgence, and an understanding of the ideas of Aleš Hrdlička can help combat them. Today, the racial science of the early twentieth century is both untenable and contemptible. This book is about an arch figure of that period: Aleš Hrdlička served as Curator of Physical Anthropology at the prestigious Smithsonian Institution fr...
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    82,53 €

  • Play in a Covid Frame
    During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed p...
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    60,66 €

  • Play in a Covid Frame
    During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed p...
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    77,60 €

  • The Omnipresent Past
    This collection of papers explores the variegated ways that the continent’s rich and complex history - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside conside...
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    61,60 €

  • Ravine-à-Couleuvres
    Fritz Gerald Louis
    Ravine-à-Couleuvres is the place where the first battle took place in 1802 between the indigenous army and Rochambeau’s troops as part of the slaves’ struggle for the general liberation of blacks, which led to independence and the founding of the Haitian nation on January 1, 1804. The Ravine-à-Couleuvres is located on the Lacroix-Périsse dwelling in the commune of Estère and wa...
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    88,39 €

  • Context, Policy, and Practices in Indigenous and Cultural Entrepreneurship
    There are ongoing debates on the concepts surrounding the roles of Indigenous people in transforming the entrepreneurial landscape to promote socio-economic development. Arguably, the culture and ways of our lives, in the context of entrepreneurship, have a role in influencing social economic development. The ideals between the entrepreneurial practice of Indigenous people and ...
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    314,64 €

  • Context, Policy, and Practices in Indigenous and Cultural Entrepreneurship
    There are ongoing debates on the concepts surrounding the roles of Indigenous people in transforming the entrepreneurial landscape to promote socio-economic development. Arguably, the culture and ways of our lives, in the context of entrepreneurship, have a role in influencing social economic development. The ideals between the entrepreneurial practice of Indigenous people and ...
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    235,73 €

  • A Touch of Genius
    André Singer
    Evans-Pritchard was perhaps the most influential anthropological scholar of the twentieth century. His extraordinary work in Africa has formed a central foundation to anthropological thought since the 1930s, with generations of anthropologists having read and appreciated his ethnographies of the Azande, Nuer and Sanusi, and his analyses of social structures, belief systems and ...
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    229,83 €

  • Tell Timai, (Egypt) 2009-2020
    James E Bennett
    This monograph covers the excavations conducted at the Ptolemaic-Roman city of Tell Timai by the University of Hawaii from 2009 - 2020. It is divided into four parts. Chapter 1 concerns the excavation and identification of a previously unknown Ptolemaic-Roman temple complex in the north-west of the site, focusing on a monumental stone gateway and mud brick enclosure wall. Chapt...
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    141,44 €

  • Agropastoralism and Languages Across Eurasia
    The essays in this volume explore questions relating to human dispersals and exchange across the varied environments of Eurasia. Part One focuses on the Neolithic and how agriculture led to new adaptive niches for human societies. This process involved population and linguistic expansion, but could also be expressed through exploitation of the environment in new ways. In Part T...
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    98,38 €

  • Violence and Crisis in the Pre-Hispanic Peruvian Central Coast
    Maricarmen Vega
    This investigation shows the interaction between socio-political changes and climate crisis in the development of violence in the pre-Hispanic Peruvian central coast and how this violence affected specific population segments.This research highlights three factors that triggered violent episodes in the area: the emergence of social inequalities/a warrior elite; socio-political ...
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    115,13 €

  • Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health
    Anna C Moles
    Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health demonstrates how social, economic and political changes impacted the everyday lives of the people of Knossos, at the fundamental level of their health and diet, during the Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique periods.Knossos, in north-central Crete, was an important site in Aegean and Mediterranean networks throughout this timespan, though...
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    157,11 €

  • Food Behaviors, Nutrition and Identity under the Inka Empire
    Maria Kolp-Godoy Allende
    Pueblo Viejo-Pucara is one of the coastal archaeological sites that were ruled by the Inka Empire on the central coast of Peru, inhabited by the Caringa people. Labor colonists relocated to the site as part of Inka strategies of annexation of new territories, reducing local polities’ power. Archaeological evidence points to connections between the Caringa people and highland co...
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    158,67 €


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