The Anthropology of the Future, Paperback - Rebecca Bryant

DescriptionStudy of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heid...

Reducere. Note Formerly published as an ebook titled Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic. Now available in paperback.Across the globe and through t...

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global or...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan P. MerriamAuthor: Valerie MerriamIn this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a so...

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging varie...

Reducere. Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary m...

Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a co...

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense ...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the An...

How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together t...

DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

Reducere. Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East...

Publisher: Potter BooksAuthor(s): Matt ThomasIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 192Collection: M.I.FivePublication date: 2009Dimensions...

Reducere. In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper int...

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

A graphic memoir in which the author recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya and Assad's Syria. Brimming with li...

Reducere. The Forest of the Future is a magical story of friendship, understanding, respect for mother nature. This story helps shape the perspective of kids...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 44 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

The future is sausage-shaped!The sausage is one of mankind's first-ever designed food items. A paragon of efficient butchery, it was designed to ma...

Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try and establish an alternative un...

Reducere. In The Novel of the Future, Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation-in film, art, and dance as well as literature-to chart a new direction for the y...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

Josh 'Kid' Jones, a young Offliner discovers that an antiquated piece of technology called an 'iPhone', seemingly allows him to communicate with th...

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete o...

Time Force Pink Ranger Jen Scotts and Red Ranger Wes Collins have defeated their greatest enemy, discover their love may threaten all of time - but...

Reducere. A new philosophy of religion for a secular world How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a...

Reducere. Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) was a German anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which ...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

The author has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. This book tracks one curious man's j...

Reducere. Who wouldn't want to know the answer to the question: "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?" For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and mystics have st...

Publisher: Pushkin PressAuthor(s): Lesley ChamberlainNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 293 x 20Cover type: Paperback / so...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trac...

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 ...

The only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st c...

This follow-up book to "Astrology for the Light Side of Your Brain" is all about your future-what the Sun, Moon and planets mean when they are tran...