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  • Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes

    Edited by Donna L. Gillette, Mavis Greer, Michele Helene Hayward, William Breen Murray ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staying with the Trouble

    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • The Practice of the Wild

    Essays

    by Gary Snyder ...
    A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force.With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What Is Paleolithic Art?

    Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

    by Jean Clottes ...
    Translated by Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin ...
    The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of ... Read more

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  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Prehistoric Rock Art

    Polemics and Progress

    by Paul G. Bahn ...
    Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Ethno-ornithology

    Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society

    Edited by Andrew Gosler, Sonia Tidemann ...
    Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Children of the Outer Dark

    The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney

    by Christopher Dewdney ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney’s poetics ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Cosmos in Stone

    Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

    by David J. Lewis-Williams ...
    Series series Archaeology of Religion
    J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Manifesting Power

    Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology

    Edited by Tracy L. Sweely ...
    Power relations among humans have likely been a topic of interest since long before any historical claims to its nature were proffered. This book recognizes that power and gender may be rooted in the experience of power in western society. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    by Matthew G. Looper ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD