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The Making of the British Landscape
This is the changing story of Britain from prehistory to the present day, as it has been preserved in our fields, farms, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. Read more...
The Road from Frijoles Canyon
In 1936, eight-year-old William Adams made his first visit to the Southwest and the Puebloan ruins of Frijoles Canyon—better known as Bandelier National Monument. Read more...
Archaeologies of Colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Read more...
The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media
A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Read more...
The Adventure of the Real
Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Read more...
Teenage Tata: Voices of Young Fathers in South Africa
Teenage Tata: Voices of young fathers in South Africa provides a fresh and in-depth portrait of impoverished young South African men who became fathers while teenagers. Read more...
The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth
The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth offers an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance. Read more...
Reflections on Cambridge
The traditions and creativity of Cambridge University have survived 800 years. Read more...
The Palm at the End of the Mind
In many societies, and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Read more...
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. Read more...
The Extended Case Method
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century - the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Read more...
