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  • The Practice of War

    Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

    Edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig, Monika Böck ...
    The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs

    Causes and consequences of environmental change in east Africa

    Edited by Michael Bollig, David M. Anderson ...
    This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them. It focuses on the savannahs of the Baringo-Bogoria basin, and the surrounding highlands of Kenya’s northern Rift Valley that form the social-ecological system of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • African Landscapes

    Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Edited by Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes.Most previous ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Shaping the African Savannah

    From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia

    by Michael Bollig ...
    Series Book 149 - African Studies
    The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

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  • Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors

    Against the Double Blackmail

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  • Apartheid in Palestine

    Hard Laws and Harder Experiences

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  • First Migrants

    Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

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  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

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  • The Present Past

    An Introduction to Anthropology for Archeologists

    by Ian Hodder ...
    This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodders original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record.There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past civilisations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is inevitably based on the ... Read more

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