Debating Authenticity. Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective, Hardback - ***

This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is...

Reducere. A twenty-five-year veteran of field research in Niger and Mali, anthropologist Susan J. Rasmussen examines the female-dominated practice of herbali...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Emily SunNumber of pages: 176Collection: Lit ZPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 18Cover t...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspectiv...

In this timely study, world renowned Middle Eastern and Western scholars and advisers provide expert analyses of the contemporary affairs of the ME...

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with...

Reducere. Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above ...

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by B...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): Tom NuenenIllustration(s): 5 Tables, black and white; 26 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 228Collection: De Gru...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mike (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter, UK) FinnNumber of pages: 296Collection: Deba...

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

A philosophical journey hunting down the answers to who we are and what makes us human. With an ancient skull as his starting point, Westerman trav...

This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.Editor(s): Michael Sherberg

Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguit...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron - a day that involves meditations on language, n...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sarah-Neel SmithIllustration(s): 42 color illustrations, 20 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 2...

This book is an engaging and useful desk companion for judges and practicing lawyers, as well as general readers and graduate students interested i...

This reference dictionary describes the development of physical or biological anthropology concepts, tracing the history of their usage from their ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Alice SherwoodNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 40Cover type: Hardbac...

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868-19...

This innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history.Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

Selling Out or Buying In? is the first work to illuminate the process by which consumers' access to goods and services was liberalized and deregula...

This book tackles the latest challenges in education in the business sector. It outlines how students must be taught to adapt to a highly fluid bus...

Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying respons...

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's d...

The articles in the volume contribute to a relatively new domain of scholarly research - the ecological anthropology, focusing especially on contem...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour and 54 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Collection: Visual Cultures and German ContextsPub...

This book looks at both famous and lesser-known evidence for European Neolithic Warfare

The study of altruism and altruistic behavior has caught the attention of social scientists especially in recent years. What motivates individuals ...

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microsco...