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Lifeworlds: essays in existential anthropology
Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, the author creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry. Read more...
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Digital Rock Art from prehistoric Europe: heritage, film archaeology - the catalogue accompanying the exhibition showing at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology until 23 March 2013. Read more...
Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond
Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the discoveries by these biological anthropologists. Read more...
Beyond Boundaries: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border
The recent growth of Third World economies is ostensibly based on extracting raw materials, specially mining, a controversial issue that has taken centre stage in recent yearsThis book explores what everyday life is like for the thousands of Bangladeshis who labour in the borderlands coal mines. Read more...
I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space. Read more...
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
A guide to debate and action, this book charts the past and present of international migration and makes practical recommendations that allow everyone to benefit from its unstoppable future growth. It also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes. Read more...
Luck: What it Means and Why it Matters
To what extent do we control our own destiny? Can those who have risen to the top really say it was all down to them? Is lucky success somehow less deserving? Read more...
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...
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. 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...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
The ruins of Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79 offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman empire. Read more...
