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Michael Fuerstein
Experiments in Living Together

Michael Fuerstein explores how democracy drives social progress despite the potential ignorance and irrationality of democratic citizens, arguing that democracy enables "experiments in living": …

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Jennifer Botica
At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads presents a candid, thoughtful, and sometimes critical analysis of an entire cultural resource management project from beginning to end.

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Race and the Question of Palestine

"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question …

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Dean L Anderson, Michael S Nassaney, Krysta Ryzewski
The Historical Archaeology of Michigan

This book explores the historical archaeology of the past four hundred years in Michigan, illustrating how the state's history reflects the broader American experience through themes of entrepreneurship, …

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George Yancey
Who Is Antiracist?

"This book proposes an index to measure survey respondents' level of agreement with antiracist principles, as defined in popular literature. It then observes the characteristics and beliefs of those …

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George Yancey
Who Is Antiracist?

"This book proposes an index to measure survey respondents' level of agreement with antiracist principles, as defined in popular literature. It then observes the characteristics and beliefs of those …

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Madeline Potter
The Roma

"A spellbinding tale of resilience and survival in the face of widespread bigotry and violence." ---Boston GlobeA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going…

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in…

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Roger Luckhurst
Graveyards

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today's green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How h…

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Giorgio Scalici
Pain, Play and Music

"This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional crisis, such as funerals and shamanic rituals"--

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Jane Borden
Cults Like Us

An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility …

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Fernando Haddad,
The Excluded Third

The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology is a wide-ranging study of the relationship between biology and the Humanities.In this book*,*Fernando Haddad responds to the new forays from…

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Monica L Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

lieferbar ab 31.1.2026.

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Monica L Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Ricardo Santos Alexandre
The Task of Having to Be

This book is an anthropological exploration into the enduring conundrum of the human condition in dialogue with Japanese culture and society. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, it examines tradi…

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Ryoko Nishii, Tadashi Yanai
Affectus

We are constantly being influenced and acted upon by various people, creatures and things, in other words, by beings outside our bodies. Taking Spinoza's concept of ' Affectus' as a base, this book is an …

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Catherine R Rhodes
Undoing Modernity

An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.

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Shannon Ward
Amdo Lullaby

This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People's Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused…

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