Last Hunters, First Farmers

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• During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishm... Lees meer

Cash on the Table

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• A great deal is at stake in understanding the moral dimensions of economic behavior and markets. Public debates over executive compensation, the fair ... Lees meer

The Origins of Language

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• Is human language unique in the animal world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In The Origins of Language , ten primatol... Lees meer

Imperial Formations

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• The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ... Lees meer

Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management

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• By most estimates, as much as 90 percent of the archaeology done in the United States today is carried out in the field of cultural resource managemen... Lees meer

Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades

Arlene M. Davila

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• The contributors in Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades highlight the value of "radical inclusion" in their research and call for a critical sel... Lees meer

Things in Motion

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• Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in which... Lees meer

Globalization, Water, & Health

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• This book is about crime and passion, life and death, lofty goals and squalid realities. It is a book about water. Global disparities in health and ac... Lees meer

Law and Empire in the Pacific

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• Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict t... Lees meer

Big Histories, Human Lives

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• We may be due an Ice Age any day now as the earth wobbles through its complex long-term cycles of axial tilt, precession, and eccentricity. Not only a... Lees meer

Critical Anthropology Now

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• Building on the legacy of Writing Culture , Critical Anthropology Now vividly represents the changing nature of anthropological research practice, dem... Lees meer

Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control

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• What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to an interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a considerat... Lees meer

Designs and Anthropologies

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• The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life wi... Lees meer

Timely Assets

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• Oil is running out. What's more, its final depletion, once relegated to a misty future, now seems imminent. In all the more or less apocalyptic discus... Lees meer

New Landscapes of Inequality

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• The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate... Lees meer

A Catalyst for Ideas

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• In his thirty-four years as president of the School of American Research, Douglas W. Schwartz's far-reaching vision placed SAR on the intellectual edg... Lees meer

Linking the Histories of Slavery

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• This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Culture

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• At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-o... Lees meer

Global Middle Classes

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• Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle classes... Lees meer

Opening Archaeology

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• In 1989-90, Congress enacted two laws, the National Museum of the American Indian Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, ... Lees meer

The Psychology of Women Under Patriarchy

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• In the #MeToo era, US women continue to struggle with whether or not to report sexual harassment, while women living in parts of rural Pakistan and Me... Lees meer

Regimes of Language

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• In Regimes of Language , ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (with... Lees meer

The Origins of Language

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• Is human language unique in the animal world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In The Origins of Language , ten primatol... Lees meer

Costly and Cute

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• Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that ma... Lees meer