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  • The Language of Myth and Art

    Performance and Orality in San Bushman Expressive Culture

    by David M. Witelson, J David Lewis-Williams ...
    In 'primary oral societies', notions of repetition, addition, malleability of characters and agonistic contexts in narrative myths differ markedly from Western notions of time, orthodoxy and tediousness. What Western audiences and image-viewers expect as a consequence of their cultural background does not match the expectations of those who belong to oral societies. In The Language of Myth and Art ... Read more

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  • Lines

    A Brief History

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.Ingold’s argument ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • A History of Language

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, as he analyses the emergence ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • A History of Language

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Globalities
    It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of ‘language’ might be applied. As he charts the history of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Animals in Film

    by Jonathan Burt ...
    Series series Locations
    From Salvador Dalí to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the development of moving pictures themselves.In Animals in Film, Jonathan Burt points out that the mobility of animals presented technical and conceptual challenges to early film-makers, the solutions of which ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Thinking with Animals

    New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

    Edited by Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman ...
    Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • A Cosmos in Stone

    Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

    by David J. Lewis-Williams ...
    Series series Archaeology of Religion
    J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Oceans

    Edited by Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade ...
    Series series Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
    OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture.Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD