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  • Grazing Communities

    Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

    Edited by Letizia Bindi ...
    Series Book 29 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. ... Read more

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  • Slow Food Nation

    Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Translated by Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt ...
    By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many ... Read more

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  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Read more

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  • Venice and the Anthropocene

    An ecocritical guide

    by Serenella Iovino, AA. VV. ...
    What does Venice look like when observed from the perspective of climate change, environmental collapse, and human-animal relations in an age of industrialization and mass extinction? That is, as a privileged observatory of the Anthropocene? This guide, composed of several voices, forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of Venice and its Lagoon. What does the Venetian School of Painting ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

    Edited by Frank Trentmann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global ... Read more

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  • The Fabric of Cultures

    Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

    Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Hazel Clark ...
    Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays ... Read more

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  • Palladio's Children

    Essays on Everyday Environment and the Architect

    by N.J. Habraken ...
    Based on many years of personal observation, Palladio's Children critically examines the role of the architect as a professional descendent of Palladio, and as an heir to his architectural legacy. Seven innovative and carefully crafted essays explore the widening ideological schism between today’s architects whose core values, identity and education remain rooted in the Renaissance legacy of ... Read more

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  • Against Urbanism

    by Franco La Cecla ...
    Translated by Mairin O'Mahony ...
    After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture (PM Press, 2012, also available), Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic and ... Read more

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  • Food

    Food Cultures between Sharing and Exclusion Practices

    by Ugo E. M. Fabietti, Michela Badii, Silvia Barberani, Marinella Carosso, Federica Riva, Mauro Van Aken ...
    Series Book 11 - Quaderni
    Nutrition appears as one of those elements of human actions and thoughts through which human beings express ways and forms of collective existence. What we commonly refer to as the economic, political and symbolic spheres converge in nutrition, so much so that eating as a practice is a sort of “total social fact” or, in other words, a form of cultural expression tracing back to the very ... Read more

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  • Is Landscape... ?

    Essays on the Identity of Landscape

    Edited by Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim ...
    Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The publication pursues the potential of multiple provisional working definitions of landscape to both ... Read more

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  • Organizing Bronze Age Societies

    The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared

    Edited by Timothy Earle, Kristian Kristiansen ...
    The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten ... Read more

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  • Tight Knit

    Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion

    by Elizabeth L. Krause ...
    The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in Italy" labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industry—all the while adding new ... Read more

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