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Politics of the Dunes

Maxwell Woods

• Hardcover | Engels | Space and Place | nr. 19
• Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge ar... Lees meer

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Circumpolar North | nr. 3
• Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban ... Lees meer

Shamanism

Merete Demant Jakobsen

• Paperback | Engels
• Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. Th... Lees meer

Aspasia

• Paperback | Engels
• In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fil... Lees meer

On Violence in History

• Paperback | Engels
• Is global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time... Lees meer

Theorising Media and Conflict

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Media | nr. 10
• Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and comp... Lees meer

Alfred Cort Haddon

Ciarán Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology's Ancestors | nr. 5
• An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Wa... Lees meer

A New African Elite

Deborah Pellow

• Hardcover | Engels
• Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After uni... Lees meer

Anthropology and Public Service

• Hardcover | Engels
• These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations... Lees meer

Translocal Care Across Kosovo's Borders

Carolin Leutloff-Grandits

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Europe | nr. 8
• In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villag... Lees meer

Shakespeare and Money

• Paperback | Engels | Shakespeare & | nr. 7
• Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With ... Lees meer

Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants

• Hardcover | Engels | Remapping Cultural History | nr. 16
• In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation for Jews... Lees meer

Religion and Society

• Paperback | Engels
• To open this volume Jean Comaroff, one of the most important voices in the anthropology of religion over the past 30 years, reflects on the developmen... Lees meer

Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

Marta Rohatynskyj

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 14
• The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Pap... Lees meer

Recognizing the Past in the Present

• Hardcover | Engels
• Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National ... Lees meer

Opening Up the University

• Hardcover | Engels | Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Poli | nr. 5
• Through a series of empirically and theoretically informed reflections, Opening Up the University offers insights into the process of setting up and r... Lees meer

Identities and Place

• Hardcover | Engels
• With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and ... Lees meer

Environing Empire

Martin Kalb

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 23
• Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early... Lees meer

Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

Ludek Broz

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies from high-altitude burial sites. Less well-known is the fact that... Lees meer

Indigeneity and the Sacred

• Paperback | Engels | Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology | nr. 22
• This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americ... Lees meer

Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Alan Philip Garfinkel

• Paperback | Engels
• Uto-Aztecan iconic practices are primarily conditioned by the consciousness of the snake as a death-dealing power, and as such, an animal that display... Lees meer

Masks and Staffs

Michaela Pelican

• Paperback | Engels | Integration and Conflict Studies | nr. 11
• The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropologi... Lees meer

Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History

• Paperback | Engels | New German Historical Perspectives | nr. 7
• For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation's postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As thi... Lees meer

Island Historical Ecology

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the pe... Lees meer