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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification

Body modification practices express identity, conform to social norms, and convey cultural values that express cultural, social, and individual meanings. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthrop…

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Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions , volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building…

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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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Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology

A collection of detailed case studies that emphasize partnerships with local and descendant communities to foster ethical, inclusive research practicesThis book highlights approaches to archaeological res…

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Daniel White, Emma Cook, Andrea de Antoni,
Affect as Cultural Critique

Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not t…

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

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Victoria Sherrow
Encyclopedia of Hair

This popular volume on the culture of hair through human history and around the globe has been updated and revised to include even more entries and current information.How we style our hair has the abilit…

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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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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

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Monuments and Memory

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of hi…

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Emily Hong
Borderland Solidarity

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism,…

lieferbar ab 16.6.2026.

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Andrew M Carruthers
Spectres of Affinity

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs, however, how is the "illegal immigrant" made legible or pol…

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Emily Hong
Borderland Solidarity

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism,…

lieferbar ab 16.6.2026.

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Virgínia Amaral,
Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the influence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement in Northern Amazonia.

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Matthew Magnani, Natalia Magnani
The Craft of Belonging

The Craft of Belonging explores the role of craft and its mediation of social boundaries, particularly in communities that are under state pressure.Anthropologists Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnani blen…

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

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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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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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Myriam Lamrani
The Intimacy of Images

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other "special dead."

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David A B Murray
Queer Anthropology

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging …

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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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