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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jane hubert”
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  • Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion

    The Archaeology and Anthropology of 'Difference'

    Edited by Jane Hubert ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    A unique work that brings together a number of specialist disciplines, such as archaeology, anthropology, disability studies and psychiatry to create a new perspective on social and physical exclusion from society. A range of evidence throws light on such things as the causes and consequences of social exclusion stigma, marginality and dangerousness. It is an important text that breaks down ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

    Edited by David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, Audhild Schanche ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land as special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes encounter conflict with local populations over ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Dead and their Possessions

    Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert, Paul Turnbull ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    Inspired by a key session for the World Archaeological Congress in South Africa, The Dead and their Possessions is the first book to tackle the principle, policy and practice of repatriating museum artefacts, rather than cultural heritage in general.Increasingly, indigenous people world-wide are asserting their fundamental right to determine the future of the human remains of their ancestors, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The History of Medicine

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Bynum ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental medicine, Bill Bynum offers insights into medicine's past, while at the same time engaging ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

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  • Sick Societies

    by Robert B. Edgerton ...
    Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series The Norton History of Science
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    by David Hurst Thomas ...
    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Divide

    Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

    by Peter Watson ...
    This "ingenious work about the course of human history" examines why civilizations evolved so differently in the Americas and Eurasia ( Kirkus, starred review).By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Age came to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, dividing America from Eurasia. This division ... Read more

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  • Down's Syndrome - The Biography

    by Chris Nancollas ...
    Down’s Syndrome: The Biography presents an accessible and entirely necessary back history of Down’s Syndrome: the genetic condition diagnosed by John Langdon Down that continues to affect a significant number of adults and children across the globe.The story begins in Cornwall, the birth place of Langdon Down, and travels back and forth through the ages, from the Aztecs and the ‘idiots’ of the ... Read more

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