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  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    "Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites." -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    44,45 €

  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities
    Edited by H. L. Cobb, F. Coward, L. Grimshaw and S. Price.This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theo...
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    60,70 €

  • Cypriana
    'A restoration of Justina’s place in the Cyprianic pantheon.' -JHDSAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have experienced a resurgence of interest in the English-speaking world. It has been remarked that they stand at a crossroads of the so-called Old and New Worlds, forming an intermediary nexus of Christian thaumaturgy and older pagan m...
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    51,75 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • Worlds Beyond Bios
    Sophie Chao
    Worlds Beyond Bios builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human, exploring how entities not traditionally recognized as 'alive' play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Drawing from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies as well as anthropology, the environmental humanities, and political theory, the contributors develop philosoph...
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    43,93 €

  • Without Masters
    Livia K. Stone
    Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión as it traveled around the world in the twentieth century and came to be popularized in Mexico City in the early 2000s. A political term that first arose in 1962 Algeria traveled across continents until it landed in Mexico City’s anarcho-punk scene in the 1980s, where it e...
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    40,81 €

  • How We Became Everywhere
    Moshi Adada
    How did one human species that emerged in Africa eventually make nearly the entire planet home?The answer is far more extraordinary than a simple story of people walking from one continent to another.In How We Became Everywhere, Moshi Adada follows the human journey from the deep population history of Africa to the settlement of Eurasia, Sahul, the Americas, and the remote isla...
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    59,79 €

  • TARTARIA - Volume 2
    Chuck Miller
    Where did all the children come from?Between the 1850s and the 1920s, trains carried a quarter million children out of eastern cities and scattered them across the continent. The official story calls it charity. A growing community looking at the same records keeps asking a different question: why does a supposedly settled country look like it was being repopulated?TARTARIA: Th...
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    40,27 €

  • TARTARIA - Volume 3
    Chuck Miller
    Why does every thread lead back to the same empire?Follow any one claim far enough, a buried skeleton report, a five-mile tunnel, a photograph with a figure erased, and it runs into all the others. The official story treats each anomaly as a coincidence. A growing community looking at the whole board keeps asking a different question: how many coincidences does it take before t...
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    40,26 €

  • The Kandahar Giant
    Chuck Miller
    A cave in the mountains of Kandahar Province. A missing patrol. A story that will not die.In 2002, a Special Forces patrol vanished in the mountains of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The team sent to find them discovered broken gear, spent casings, human bones, and a cave. What came out of that cave, according to the story told ever since, stood twelve to fifteen feet tall: re...
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    41,80 €

  • Syrian Costume
    Aida Dalati
    Aida Dalati offers a fashion designer’s perspective on Syrian costume, revealing the intimate relationship between weavers, embroiderers, and adornment, and how textiles have endured across the ages as both cultural expression and currency.Drawing on decades of research and collecting, it presents a curated selection of costumes gathered by Aida Dalati, revealing textiles as an...
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    32,49 €

  • Decolonial Media Imaginaries
    Ian Reilly
    A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. Decolonial Media Imaginaries (DMI) begins from the basic premise that imaginaries play a crucial role in articulating and elaborating identity, community, and solidarity-particularly through their function in the collaborative shaping of ways of l...
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    38,96 €

  • IL GENOMA SONORO E LE SUE MEMORIE
    Louis Siciliano
    Che cosa resta di un suono quando il suono scompare?Può una melodia custodire tracce di civiltà, rituali e memorie che attraversano il tempo?Con questo saggio originale e visionario, Louis Siciliano conduce il lettore in una ricerca che intreccia musicologia, archeologia del sacro, ecologia dell’ascolto, fisica del suono e sistemi complessi. Dai neumi benvenetani alle grotte mi...
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    28,60 €

  • Leaving to Remain
    Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
    What happens to a society when a large part of its population is somewhere else?For generations, the Minangkabau of West Sumatra have answered that question through merantau-the deeply rooted practice of leaving home to seek livelihood, knowledge, experience, and opportunity elsewhere. Yet departure has not dissolved Minangkabau society. Paradoxically, it has helped sustain it....
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    33,61 €

  • Witch City, Inc. Hucksters, Hexes, and the Business of Salem’s Supernatural
    Aldric Fenn
    Salem, Massachusetts sells one thing better than any city in America: the feeling of standing somewhere the rules of reality have worn thin.In 1970, a former nightclub dancer named Laurie Cabot opened a shop, put the word 'witch' on the sign, and set off a chain of events that would turn a town ashamed of its own 1692 atrocity into a billion-dollar seasonal economy. Fifty years...
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    24,87 €

  • American Girls in Popular Media
    Stella A. Ress
    The appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section of newspapers, to 1945, when teenage girls replaced their younger sisters in the spotlight. As such, girl culture of the 1920s through the 1940s experienced a boom in popularity. Despite the substantial ...
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    51,46 €

  • Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Hidden Identity Game
    Temesgen Muleta-Erena
    Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Hidden Identity GameCultural Formation, Narrative Sovereignty, and Strategic Truth in Tesfaye Gebre’abby Temesgen Muleta‑ErenaThis book brings together two powerful analytical streams: experimental microeconomics drawn from real‑world observation, and sovereign identity analysis grounded in the literary discoveries of Tesfaye Gebre...
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    32,57 €

  • Punks and Skins United
    Aimar Ventsel
    Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany, such as social segmentation, east-west tensions and local politics. Punk in eastern Germa...
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    33,66 €

  • Life with Durham Cathedral
    Arran J. Calvert
    An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral. Focusing on the role of sound, light, time, space, building and dwelling, the author argues that Durham Cathedral is much more than just a backdrop to everyday life. Rather, through the constant processes of negotiation a...
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    47,40 €

  • The Origins of Prejudice
    Carla Guerrón Montero / Eugene Anderson / Kelley Coures
    Being prejudiced is usually taken to mean having hasty and poorly founded feelings and opinions, usually negative, that are based on too little real knowledge and careful consideration. Definitions, however, are not explanations. The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritical...
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    22,95 €

  • TROP DE CERTITUDES
    Noel Grospeiller
    Vous avez peut-être déjà senti celaUne décision peut être rationnelle, argumentée, cohérente, et pourtant laisser derrière elle une impression étrange : quelque chose n’a pas été entièrement rencontré.Une explication peut sembler faire sens, mais ne pas rejoindre tout ce qui se passe. Une parole peut être correcte, sans être fausse, et pourtant ne pas sonner juste. Une organisa...
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    17,93 €

  • Reaching For the Goal
    Elder William D Holmes
    In this Book it talks about life’s problems facing the youth of today and how to make positive choices to reach your goals. This book talks in depth about problems with Alcohol, Drugs, illicit sex, nicotine & Gangs and how they can ruin a person’s life. It goes into situation where someone was under the influence of alcohol and the consequences that follow. The book also talks ...
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    18,91 €

  • The Subject of Sovereignty
    Gregory Feldman
    Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the 'relational subject': a subject that is inseparable from th...
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    40,42 €

  • Cryptopolitics
    Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, 'cryptopolitics,' are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies o...
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    26,47 €

  • Foreigners in Their Own Country
    Lawrence M. Martin
    Based on in-depth interviews with people throughout France who trace their origins to non-European countries, Foreigners in Their Own Country reports on the experience of not being seen as 'French' because of one’s physical appearance. Paying close attention to how individuals speak about themselves and their feelings of acceptance or rejection, this book provides an intimate a...
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    26,38 €

  • The Anti-Social Contract
    Lars Højer
    Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnogr...
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    47,39 €

  • Woher wir wirklich kommen
    Dominik Wörner
    Woher kommen wir wirklich? Die Antwort scheint längst festzustehen: Evolution, gemeinsame Vorfahren, Homo erectus, Neandertaler, Homo sapiens. Doch je tiefer wir in die Geschichte des Menschen eintauchen, desto komplexer wird das Bild.Mehrere Menschenarten existierten gleichzeitig. Sie begegneten sich, vermischten sich und hinterließen Spuren in unserem Erbgut. Neue Fossilien u...
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    27,33 €

  • Sublime Sociality
    Gareth Breen
    Sublime Sociality: An (Auto)Ethnographic Theory of Chinese Christianity is the first book-length ethnographic depiction of life within the world’s largest ’house church’. This deeply influential, nameless, group, a transnational, Sino-Taiwanese community of followers of Witness Li, is one of the first indigenous Chinese Christian movements of the 20th century, and the only one ...
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    41,29 €


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