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  • 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
    'A restoration of Justina’s place in the Cyprianic pantheon.' -JHDSAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have experienced 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 m...
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    51,75 €

  • 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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    18,62 €

  • Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Indigenous North American & Arctic Mythology
    Ziggy Quinete
    Unveil the Sacred Powers of Indigenous North America & the ArcticStep into a world where sea women rule the animals beneath Arctic waters, Raven releases light into creation, sacred mountains speak through ancestral power, tricksters reshape the earth through wisdom and folly, corn mothers sustain humanity, and divine forces govern storms, hunting, harvests, warfare, healing, d...
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    42,87 €

  • Worlds Beyond Bios
    Sophie Chao
    Worlds Beyond Bios builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human, exploring how entities not traditionally recognized as 'alive' play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Drawing from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies as well as anthropology, the environmental humanities, and political theory, the contributors develop philosoph...
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    43,93 €

  • Without Masters
    Livia K. Stone
    Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión as it traveled around the world in the twentieth century and came to be popularized in Mexico City in the early 2000s. A political term that first arose in 1962 Algeria traveled across continents until it landed in Mexico City’s anarcho-punk scene in the 1980s, where it e...
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    40,81 €

  • Chaco Now
    V. B. Price
    Chaco Canyon is once again threatened (as it perpetually is) by forces looking to disregard the cultural and historical importance of the region to Puebloan and other Indigenous peoples, as well as to all New Mexicans. V. B. Price has long written about this place as an anthropologist, a journalist, and a poet. Now, he returns with a new and urgent suite of poems for Chaco. The...
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    15,63 €

  • How We Became Everywhere
    Moshi Adada
    How did one human species that emerged in Africa eventually make nearly the entire planet home?The answer is far more extraordinary than a simple story of people walking from one continent to another.In How We Became Everywhere, Moshi Adada follows the human journey from the deep population history of Africa to the settlement of Eurasia, Sahul, the Americas, and the remote isla...
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    59,79 €

  • TARTARIA - Volume 2
    Chuck Miller
    Where did all the children come from?Between the 1850s and the 1920s, trains carried a quarter million children out of eastern cities and scattered them across the continent. The official story calls it charity. A growing community looking at the same records keeps asking a different question: why does a supposedly settled country look like it was being repopulated?TARTARIA: Th...
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    40,27 €

  • TARTARIA - Volume 3
    Chuck Miller
    Why does every thread lead back to the same empire?Follow any one claim far enough, a buried skeleton report, a five-mile tunnel, a photograph with a figure erased, and it runs into all the others. The official story treats each anomaly as a coincidence. A growing community looking at the whole board keeps asking a different question: how many coincidences does it take before t...
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    40,26 €

  • The Kandahar Giant
    Chuck Miller
    A cave in the mountains of Kandahar Province. A missing patrol. A story that will not die.In 2002, a Special Forces patrol vanished in the mountains of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The team sent to find them discovered broken gear, spent casings, human bones, and a cave. What came out of that cave, according to the story told ever since, stood twelve to fifteen feet tall: re...
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    41,80 €

  • Syrian Costume
    Aida Dalati
    Aida Dalati offers a fashion designer’s perspective on Syrian costume, revealing the intimate relationship between weavers, embroiderers, and adornment, and how textiles have endured across the ages as both cultural expression and currency.Drawing on decades of research and collecting, it presents a curated selection of costumes gathered by Aida Dalati, revealing textiles as an...
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    32,49 €

  • IL GENOMA SONORO E LE SUE MEMORIE
    Louis Siciliano
    Che cosa resta di un suono quando il suono scompare?Può una melodia custodire tracce di civiltà, rituali e memorie che attraversano il tempo?Con questo saggio originale e visionario, Louis Siciliano conduce il lettore in una ricerca che intreccia musicologia, archeologia del sacro, ecologia dell’ascolto, fisica del suono e sistemi complessi. Dai neumi benvenetani alle grotte mi...
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    28,60 €

  • Decolonial Media Imaginaries
    Ian Reilly
    A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. Decolonial Media Imaginaries (DMI) begins from the basic premise that imaginaries play a crucial role in articulating and elaborating identity, community, and solidarity-particularly through their function in the collaborative shaping of ways of l...
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    38,96 €

  • Ślady cywilizacji francuskiej w Luizjanie
    Brigitte Thonhauser
    W Luizjanie można dostrzec elementy o charakterze frankofońskim, które - paradoksalnie - cieszą się pewnym prestiżem pomimo zaniku języka francuskiego w życiu codziennym. Rzut oka na historię pokazuje, jak ten francuskojęzyczny lud i jego język ukształtowały się w wyniku kilku fal imigracji, deportacji Akadyjczyków, relacji z rdzennymi mieszkańcami indiańskimi oraz z czarnymi n...
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    113,17 €

  • INDIAN CIVILIZATION
    Hasan Kanat
    This study applies the five-stage model of Retrodictive Structural Hermeneutics (RSH 2.0)-Absolute Center → Delegation of Authority → Functional Representation → Localization → Structural Inflation-to Indian civilization. The model is used as a comparative analytical framework rather than as a necessarily linear historical sequence. In comparison with the bureaucratic pluraliza...
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    16,37 €

  • Spuren der französischen Zivilisation in Louisiana
    Brigitte Thonhauser
    In Louisiana findet man frankophone Zeichen, die paradoxerweise trotz des Verschwindens der französischen Sprache aus dem Alltag ein gewisses Ansehen genießen. Ein historischer Überblick zeigt die Entstehung dieses frankophonen Volkes und seiner Sprache durch mehrere Einwanderungswellen, die Deportation der Akadier, seine Beziehungen zur indianischen Urbevölkerung und zu den sc...
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    113,14 €

  • Le tracce della civiltà francese in Louisiana
    Brigitte Thonhauser
    In Louisiana si trovano segni di carattere francofono che, paradossalmente, godono di un certo prestigio nonostante la scomparsa della lingua francese dalla vita quotidiana. Una panoramica storica illustra la formazione di questo popolo francofono e della sua lingua attraverso diverse ondate migratorie, la deportazione degli Acadiani, i suoi rapporti con la popolazione indigena...
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    100,13 €

  • Os vestígios da civilização francesa na Louisiana
    Brigitte Thonhauser
    Na Louisiana, encontram-se sinais de caráter francófono que, paradoxalmente, gozam de um certo prestígio, apesar do desaparecimento da língua francesa na vida quotidiana. Uma visão histórica demonstra a formação deste povo francófono e da sua língua através de várias ondas de imigração, a deportação dos acadianos, as suas relações com a população indígena e com os escravos negr...
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    113,17 €

  • Leaving to Remain
    Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
    What happens to a society when a large part of its population is somewhere else?For generations, the Minangkabau of West Sumatra have answered that question through merantau-the deeply rooted practice of leaving home to seek livelihood, knowledge, experience, and opportunity elsewhere. Yet departure has not dissolved Minangkabau society. Paradoxically, it has helped sustain it....
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    33,61 €

  • Sensing Islam
    Simon Stjernholm
    How have practices and imaginaries of sensing been religiously engaged and contested by Muslims? How do contemporary Muslim practices and debates concerning religious sensing relate to historical precedents?Analysing examples dealing with contemporary Sufism and Muslim religious oratory, this book explores how the senses have been engaged and contested in Muslim religiosity. Co...
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    51,37 €

  • American Girls in Popular Media
    Stella A. Ress
    The appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section of newspapers, to 1945, when teenage girls replaced their younger sisters in the spotlight. As such, girl culture of the 1920s through the 1940s experienced a boom in popularity. Despite the substantial ...
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    51,46 €

  • Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Hidden Identity Game
    Temesgen Muleta-Erena
    Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Hidden Identity GameCultural Formation, Narrative Sovereignty, and Strategic Truth in Tesfaye Gebre’abby Temesgen Muleta‑ErenaThis book brings together two powerful analytical streams: experimental microeconomics drawn from real‑world observation, and sovereign identity analysis grounded in the literary discoveries of Tesfaye Gebre...
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    32,57 €

  • The Subject of Sovereignty
    Gregory Feldman
    Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the 'relational subject': a subject that is inseparable from th...
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    40,42 €


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