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  • Mikey The Mouse and The Three Cats

    by Michael Rowland Jr. ...
    Enter The Amazing Pet Shop as you join Mikey The Mouse and Marty The Mouse, and the many amazing pets, as they embark on adventures to keep peace and happiness. With each story there is a new adventure and new skills for the Amazing pets to learn and use in order to save the day. Welcome to The Amazing Pet Shop (TAPS). Mikey The Mouse and The Three Cats is the first story of The Amazing Pet Shop ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heritage and Religion in East Asia

    Edited by Shu-Li Wang, Michael Rowlands, Yujie Zhu ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so, the book provides new theoretical insights into the articulation of heritage and religion.Drawing on primary, comparative research carried out in four East Asian countries, much of which was undertaken by East Asian scholars, the book shows how the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China

    by Michael Rowlands, Beverley Butler, Luo Pan, Zhang Lisheng, Stephan Feuchtwang, Peter Guangpei Ran, Wu Yinling, He Beili, Wang Mingming, Wang Mingming0, Harriet Evans1 ...
    The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Heritage

    Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa

    Edited by Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Materiality

    by Lynn Meskell, Michael Rowlands, Fred R. Myers, Matthew Engelke ...
    Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Shopping, Place and Identity

    by Peter Jackson, Michael Rowlands, Daniel Miller ...
    Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Civilisation Recast

    Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

    by Michael Rowlands, Stephan Feuchtwang ...
    Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Domination and Resistance

    Edited by Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Chris Tilley ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth of perspectives and case studies. They illustrate the application of these ideas to issues as diverse ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Social Transformations in Archaeology

    Global and Local Perspectives

    by Kristian Kristiansen, Michael Rowlands ...
    Series series Material Cultures
    Social Transformations in Archaeology explores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long-term change and to the understanding of our contemporary world. The articles are divided into:* broader theoretical issues* post-colonial issues in a wide range of contexts* archaeological examination of colonialism with case studies from the Mediterranean in the first millenium BC and historical ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Jack Goody ...
    The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Anthropology

    by Nicholas Croce ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This authoritative guide offers readers a comprehensive look into the world of anthropology and its related sciences. The book covers the essential areas of the field, including its history. The major branches of the field are also discussed, including cultural and social anthropology as well as archaeology. It also explores the study of the discipline around the world through urban, medical, and ... Read more

    $32.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD