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  • Cultural styles of knowledge transmission

    Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom

    Edited by Eric Venbrux, Jean Kommers ...
    Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Pulling the Right Threads

    The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale

    by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Jane C. Goodale, Michele Dominy, Miriam Kahn, Pamela Sheffield Rosi, Deborah Bird Rose, Michael D. Lieber, Joy A Bilharz0, William W. Donner1, Eric Venbrux2, Jane Fajans3 ...
    A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ritual, Media, and Conflict

    by Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

    Grief and Consolation in Space and Time

    Edited by Christoph Jedan, Avril Maddrell, Eric Venbrux ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ritual, Media, and Conflict

    by Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    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

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  • Ritual

    How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

    by Dimitris Xygalatas ...
    A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a 'fascinating, well-researched' (Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE) journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual—showing how and why our most irrational behaviors are a key driver of our success."Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost ... Read more

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

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  • Inheritance

    The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    “An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” —Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensThe ancient inheritance that made us who we are—and is now driving us to ruin.Each of us is endowed with an inheritance—a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    by Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Read more

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  • Everywhen

    Australia and the Language of Deep History

    Edited by Ann McGrath, Jakelin Troy, Laura Rademaker ...
    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for ... Read more

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