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Lucien Seve,

Thinking with Marx Today, Volume 2

**The second volume in Lucien Sève's Thinking with Marx Today series explores Marx's revolution in anthropology. **Instead of abstract "man," Marx argued that there is an ensemble of societal re…

Eberhard Werner

Rivers and Mountains

Little competent anthropological research has been done so far on the Zaza people, one of the larger ethnic groups settling mostly in Eastern Anatolia. This study of their language and culture is an excep…

Talia Rose Weiner

Therapeutic Inequalities

Argues that self-management approaches for depressive disorders ask the most from those with the leastTherapeutic Inequalities offers a powerful and timely critique of the U.S. mental healthcare system, u…

Xue Ming

Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau

Artists navigate faith, commerce, and gender as thangkas thrive beyond tradition Xue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once d…

Victoria Shepherd

Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside

A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers - the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade.'What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling a…

Daniel Odess, David F. Bustos, Matthew Bennett

Those Who Walked Before

One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas.On a …

David Stuart

The Four Heavens

"An extraordinary recovery of a lost world."---Peter Brown, author of The World of Late Antiquity From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization ac…

Toby Wilkinson

World Beneath the Sands

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atm…

R Gwinn Vivian, Samantha G. Fladd

Capturing Water

An esteemed archaeologist's lifetime of work on water use in Chaco CanyonThe ability of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon to sustain themselves through farming in an arid environment has long been a topic o…

Lane D Richens, Richard K Talbot

The City Creek Site

Despite over a century of archaeological research, including at many residential sites throughout most of Utah, the City Creek Site is the first Fremont village site to be explored in the Salt Lake Valley…

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

Nastassja Martin, Sophie Lewis

East of Dreams

Displaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.The work of t…

David Yoder

Fremont Figurines

A comprehensive catalogue of every known figurine from the Fremont culture, complete with in-depth analysis and interpretation of the significance of the figurines to the Fremont people.

Peggy Levitt

Move Over, Mona Lisa

Calls to include a wider range of art, literature, and ideas in the world's classrooms, libraries, and museums are loud and clear. If so many agree that reforms are needed, why is change so slow?The answe…

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

The Quintessence 1947 -

Maya Archaeology in Belize

A comprehensive overview of the archaeological research conducted on the ancient Maya in Belize, centering the country's importance to Maya studiesMaya Archaeology in Belize brings together a wealth of st…

An Archaeology of Social Transformations

Exploring how people in the past actively navigated, survived, and even flourished after societal change or collapseIn archaeology, the "collapse" of a community or civilization is often framed …

Christopher Cavanagh

The Galli Priests of Cybele

Presenting a study of the Galli priests of the Roman cult of Cybele, the Great Mother goddess, this book examines the archaeological evidence to give a clearer picture of the priesthood. The Galli were pr…

Clara Han

Echoes of a Death

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