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  • Doing Death Research

    Interviews and Career Reflections with Death Studies Scholars

    This book brings together illuminating interviews with the most influential scholars who have shaped the interdisciplinary field of death studies. From sociological explorations to psychological frameworks, cultural analyses to digital age considerations, these conversations reveal the rich tapestry of approaches that have advanced our understanding of mortality, bereavement, and end-of-life ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Palliative Care and Hospice

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives over the Decades

    This book offers a comprehensive collection of seminal research into palliative care and hospice, providing an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of end-of-life care, hospice practices, and the care of the dying. Drawing on articles published in Mortality, an academic journal dedicated to the study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and memorialization, the ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Covid-19 and Death Studies

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Lessons

    This book examines the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on how people experienced dying, death and bereavement from early 2020 onwards. This interdisciplinary collection draws together international examples rooted in empirical research from death studies scholars to make sense of these impacts. The collection includes a wide range of insights from how personal and societal responses to ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Comparing Rural Development

    Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe

    Series series Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
    At a time when there is major reorientation of rural economies in Europe, and the emergence of new possibilities both for governance and for conflict, this book brings together a group of leading academics in the fields of geography, sociology and anthropology to examine how such changes are taking place in the west of Europe. It describes, analyses and theorises the role of networks and social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Landscapes Beyond Land

    Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

    Series Book 19 - EASA Series
    Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Landscapes Beyond Land

    Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

    Series Book 19 - EASA Series
    Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known ... Read more

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  • The Materiality of Magic

    An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs

    The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a prevalent aspect of cultures worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. The Materiality of Magic addresses ... Read more

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    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual ... Read more

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    Shaping Your Landscape

    Edited by Robert Layton, Peter Ucko ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage. ... Read more

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  • Imagining Landscapes

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Monica Janowski, Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Darkness

    Edited by Marion Dowd, Robert Hensey ...
    Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines ... Read more

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