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Tamim Ansary
The Invention of Yesterday

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia and cul…

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Sandra T Barnes
People in Motion

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New Worl…

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Rafael Sánchez,
Reconocimientos

"In Caracas, Rafael Sánchez witnessed a transformative scene that led to his groundbreaking theory of the state. This stunning memoir of the intersection of politics and personal life narrates his re…

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Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra
Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, c…

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Chasing Traces

"In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endanger…

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Intertidal Shipwrecks

This volume presents a global array of case studies on the management of shipwreck sites in intertidal zones, including strategies for conservation, archaeological research, and public outreach focused on…

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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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Remediating Cartographies of Erasure

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determi…

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Siobhan McDonnell,
My Land, My Life

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining liv…

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A Cultural History of Magic

What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has magic been understood and represented? And how has this understanding differed accordin…

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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

This book will be available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.Exploring how anci…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

Explores alchemy and alchemical practice in the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures.

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Alan J Ross
In Praise of Constantius

In Praise of Constantiusargues that prominent pagan orators in Late Antiquity used the performance of speeches of praise to control and respond to significant shifts in their own careers and in imperial p…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.

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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

This book will be available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.Exploring how anci…

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Sabur& Yoshida,
Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpū

On March 13, 1935, in a small village on the craggy Oga Peninsula in northeastern Japan, an industrious vegetable farmer named Yoshida Saburō began writing a one-year chronicle of his life and community, …

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Glenn Smith,
Christians in the City of Montréal

Explains the context of Christianity in Montreal as well as broader themes in urban religion, Christianity and secularism, and Christianity within the Francophone world.

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Ian J McNiven
Sentient Seas

A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the seaSentient Seas Synthesizing archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ethnographic accounts, Ian McNiven explore…

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The Anthropology of White Supremacy

"White supremacy has shaped cultural anthropology from its inception, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding how this corrosive force structures societies around the world. T…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

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