Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “amanda kearney”
Skip side bar filters

  • Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories)

    Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria

    by John Bradley, Amanda Kearney, Liam M. Brady ...
    Series series Advances in Australasian Archaeology
    **Winner, 2024 Chief Minister's NT History Book Award**Fully illustrated, Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories) draws on a combined 70+ years of collaborative research involving Yanyuwa Elders, anthropologists, and an archaeologist to tell a unique story about the rock art from Yanyuwa Country in northern Australia's southwest Gulf of Carpentaria.Australia's rock art is recognised globally for its ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.59 USD

  • Keeping Company

    An Anthropology of Being-in-Relation

    by Amanda Kearney ...
    This book offers up a study of relational modalities in a moment of increasingly vexed identity politics. It takes inspiration from the art of keeping company, a relational habit derived on a kincentric ontology and praxis of interconnected life among the Yanyuwa, Indigenous owners of lands and waters in northern Australia. Diving deep into this multidimensional art of relating, the book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reflexive Ethnographic Practice

    Three Generations of Social Researchers in One Place

    Edited by Amanda Kearney, John Bradley ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers—anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Violence in Place, Cultural and Environmental Wounding

    by Amanda Kearney ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
    Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites it becomes the anchorage point for ethnic, cultural and national identities. Yet it is also place that becomes the battlefield, war zone, mass grave, desecrated site and destroyed landscape in the midst or aftermath of cultural wounding.Much attention has been given to the impact of trauma and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality

    by Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, Vincent Dodd, Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi, Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara, Graham Friday Dimanyurru, Annie a-Karrakayny ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld. The book argues that ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Symbolic Construction of Community

    by Anthony P. Cohen ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

    Edited by Shirley Chew, David Richards ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture.An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing ... Read more

    $59.95 USD

  • Mermaids

    by Lucille Recht Penner ...
    Illustrated by Mel Grant ...
    Series series A Stepping Stone Book
    For thousands of years, people have claimed to have spotted mermaids in the waves and on the rocks. Some were beautiful with long flowing hair and lovely voices. But other mermaids liked to drag people down to their watery homes and eat them! If you thought mermaids were just pretty ladies with scaly tails, think again. There is more to these mythical creatures than meets the eye! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Free Will

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Pink ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they may change the course of our life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Identity

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Steph Lawler ...
    Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'?In this new edition of her popular and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD