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Methodology & History in Anthropology: Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence (Paperback)

This book...presents a powerful case for anthropology that provides a full and whole account of the contemporary world as well as some dilemmas...Taken together the different approaches and case studies presented in this volume amount to an important... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games : Sport Race and American Imperialism (Hardcover)

One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World s Fair in St. Louis which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (Paperback)

Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. During his career which... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Anthropology Goes to the Fair : The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Paperback)

World s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations each exposition showcased commercial and cultural... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology (Paperback)

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Returning Life: Language Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro (Hardcover)

A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk beer and blood on the ground requesting rain for their continued existence. Returning Life explores how this event engages activities where life... more

Sino-Iranica; Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products Volume Fieldiana Anthropology v. 15 no.3

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Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Aboriginal Family and the State: The Conditions of History (Hardcover)

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal traditional owners . Drawing on... more

Antiquities from Boscoreale in Field Museum of Natural History Volume Fieldiana Anthropology v. 7 no.4 1912 [Leather Bound]

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Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi Honour Mana and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict (Paperback)

Focusing on the era of first encounters in Polynesia this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The case studies chosen enable comparison of New Zealand... more

Lectures on the origin and growth of the conception of God as illustrated by anthropology and history. (1897) [Leatherbound]

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Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Lev Shternberg : Anthropologist Russian Socialist Jewish Activist (Hardcover)

This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed... more

Methodology & History in Anthropology: Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches (Paperback)

As we enter the 21st century it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished... more

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacif: Mortality Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (Paperback)

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia Mortality Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of... more

Jewish Culture and Contexts: Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority Diaspora Tradition (Hardcover)

Over the past several decades the field of Jewish studies has expanded to encompass an unprecedented range of research topics historical periods geographic regions and analytical approaches. Yet there have been few systematic efforts to trace these... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Contributions to Ojibwe Studies : Essays 1934-1972 (Paperback)

From 1930 to 1940 A. Irving Hallowell a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania made repeated summer fieldwork visits to Lake Winnipeg Manitoba and to the Ojibwe community at Berens River on the lake s east side. He traveled up the... more

Catalog to manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives Department of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. v.3. Volume v.

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Studies in Anthropology and History: Antibodies in Diagnosis and Therapy (Hardcover)

Monoclonal antibodies have had their impact on biomedical research for more than a decade. Beside their exuberant use as reagents quite a number of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches have been followed and an impressive number of technological... more

Pre-Owned Golden Ages Dark Ages : Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History 9780520070189

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Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesth Hegel s Art History and the Critique of Modernity (Paperback)

In this study Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel s theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: With its origins in the Ancient Near East Western art culminated in... more

Studies in Anthropology and History The Hard People (Hardcover)

Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes and the way local people have responded to them. His findings relate to such themes of... more

Anthropology of History Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands (Paperback)

Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds. For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands the past is not history in a conventional sense. For them the world and... more

Clio/Anthropos : Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology (Hardcover)

This volume looks at the intersection between history and anthropology to reveal the contingencies of the production of knowledge and its relation to power. more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Excavating Nauvoo : The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America (Paperback)

This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo Illinois reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the 1960s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the... more

Fetichism : a contribution to anthropology and the history of religion / by Fritz Schultze ... Translated from the German by J. Fitzgerald. (1885) [Leatherbound]

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Fetichism : A Contribution To Anthropology And The History Of Religion (Paperback)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age it may contain imperfections such as marks notations marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important we have made it available as part... more

Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology Anthropology and History (Hardcover)

This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant s writings on biology anthropology and history an account of the human sciences their underlying unity their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say Kant s... more

Pre-Owned The Category of the Person : Anthropology Philosophy History 9780521259095

A lecture given by Marcel Mauss in 1938 brings about this compilation of comments on his speculation that notions of the person rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological have a complex social and ideological origin. Societies ranging... more

Remapping Cultural History: Indispensable Eyesores: An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings (Hardcover)

Collapsing concrete colossuses run-down overgrown skeletons immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment which we are dying to dispose of - and yet cannot do without - have inspired many ghost stories crime novels and urban... more

Pre-Owned Other Tribes Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures Histories Religions and Texts (Paperback) 0521271975 9780521271974

In this book James A. Boon investigates the history dialectics and practice of the symbolic analysis of cultural diversity. His aim is to formulate a general comparative approach to the study of symbolic processes integrating the major different... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: National Races : Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity 1840–1945 (Paperback)

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the “national races� constructed... more

The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography Botany zoology anthropology languages and history of the territori [Premium Leather Bound]

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Made to Be Seen : Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (Paperback)

Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions the contributors to Made... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and History in Yucatan 9780292703148

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The River Congo from Its Mouth to Bólobó : With a general Gescription of the natural History and Anthropology of its western Basin (Paperback)

The River Congo from Its Mouth to Bólobó - With a general Gescription of the natural History and Anthropology of its western Basin is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on... more

An introduction to anthropology; a general survey of the early history of the human race by the Rev. E. O. James. 1919 [Leather Bound]

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The botany of Cook s voyages and its unexpected significance in relation to anthropology biogeography and history. Volume v.14no.5-6 1954 1954 [Leather Bound]

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Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or as it is now known biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the... more