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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Alice L. Conklin
In the Museum of Man

В книге представлен новый взгляд на сложные взаимоотношения науки, общества и власти в период расцвета французского империализма и европейского расизма. Автор переносит нас в годы становления французской …

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Hervé Corvellec
Waste as a Critique

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Ken Dark
Tyrants and Traders

Discover exciting new research illuminating the most mysterious centuries of British history.How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roma…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Philip John Victor Davies
Standing Among the Spartans

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality - each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.This volume see…

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H P R Twiston Davies
The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

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Chris Deacy
Nostalgia, Religion and Popular Culture

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion.Focusing on the lived experiences…

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Daisy Deomampo
Conceiving Asian Babies

Exposes the racial hierarchies in how human eggs are marketed and soldConceiving Asian Babies offers a compelling and timely exploration of race, identity, reproduction, and capitalism within the industry…

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Beth Derderian
Art Capital

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising---exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi---is one of the mo…

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Beth Derderian
Art Capital

Culture and Economic Life

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising---exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi---is one of the mo…

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Philippe Descola,
Forms of the Visible

Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through…

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Philippe Descola,
Politics of Worlding

The Politics of Worldlingpresents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable précis of some of the central…

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A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)
Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is s…

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Dk
The Anthropology Book

Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology-the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family structur…

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily life What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anth…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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