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The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart (Maslin Mark)One of the fundamental questions of our existence is why we are so smart. There are lots of drawbacks to having a large brain, including the huge food intake needed to keep the organ running, the frequency with which it goes wrong, and our very high infant and mother mortality rates compared with ot... |
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Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge (Nott John)A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge. Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and ... |
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Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations (Baker Brenda J.)Artfully integrates scholarship on both past and present migration. With its thematic focus on disruption, this volume develops unprecedented nuance in the treatment of migration.--Graciela S. Cabana, coeditor of Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration A significant contribution to th... |
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The Anthropologists (Savas Aysegl)From White on White author and frequent New Yorker contributor Aysegl Savas-a warm, elegant, and playful novel of home-hunting and life-building away from ones family of origin. Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows.-Bryan Washington Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisi... |
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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (Thomas Nicholas)Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of ... |
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Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health (Brewis Alexandra)Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore another side of the issue: the startling fact tha... |
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Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene (Bourriaud Nicolas)A proposal that artists are the anthropologists of our new era or ecological crisis. Today, the ecological catastrophe challenges us to rethink the space our societies have assigned to art. Creativity, critical thinking, exchange, transcendence, the relationship to the Other and to History are valu... |
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Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Powers David S.)The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and pra... |
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Grazing Communities: Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions (Bindi Letizia)Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-ec... |
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A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language (Baraga Frederic)The language of the Ojibway people was recorded by Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), a missionary priest from Slovenia, who was sent in 1835 by the Catholic church to serve among the Ojibway living in the Lake Superior region. The multilingual Baraga quickly learned the Ojibway language and over many yea... |
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwakawakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Evans Brad)Photographer Edward Curtiss 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtiss collaboration with the Kwakwa̱ka̱wakw of British Columbia--meant, l... |
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Religion, Power, and Illusion: A Genealogy of Religious Belief (Hurley Patrick J.)According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down in communities. By the time of the ancient Egyptians, religion had reached a significant level of development. T... |
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Law, Language and the Courtroom: Legal Linguistics and the Discourse of Judges (Gozdz Roszkowski Stanislaw)This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued, constructed, interpreted and perceived. Focusing... |
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An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different (Pearson Thomas W.)This vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference. An Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Meads path to disability rights activism with one anthropologists experience ... |
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Euphoria (King Lily)A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Book of the Year for: New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, New ... |
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Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (McGaa Ed)A rich panorama of our native heritage which allows the seeker access to the heart of the Path of Beauty. Ed McGaa has walked this path so that all people may live in harmony. Samie Sams, Hancoka Olowanpi, author of Midnight Song: Quest for the Vanished Ones Ed McGaa is one of the first persons wh... |
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Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method (Candea Matei)Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth c... |
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Familiar Faces: Photography, Memory, and Argentinas Disappeared (Cieplak Piotr)An exploration of the rich and varied relationship between photography and the most recent Argentine dictatorship. Familiar Faces offers a diverse, theoretically rich, and empirically informed exploration of photography in Argentinas memorial, political, and artistic landscape. During the countrys... |
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Handbook of the Seneca Language (Chafe Wallace L.)The Seneca language is a member of the Iroquoian language family. Seneca is a seriously endangered language spoken in upper New York State and Southern Ontario. This book consists of 3 parts. Section I, on orthography, describes a way of writing Seneca words consistently and without omitting feature... |
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On Kings (Graeber David)In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the worlds most distinguished anthropologists--David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins--explores wha... |
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