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  • Visualizing Anthropology

    Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography

    Edición de Anna Grimshaw, Amanda Ravetz ...
    Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be understood on its own terms rather than by means of established textual frameworks? Visualizing Anthropology takes up this challenge. Bringing together a ... Leer más

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  • The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

    The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

    de Bryan Sykes ...
    The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan ... Leer más

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  • From Here to Eternity

    Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

    **A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker**Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to ... Leer más

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  • The Hand

    How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture

    "A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." --The Boston Globe"Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious ... Leer más

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  • Sex, Time, and Power

    How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

    As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of ... Leer más

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  • Do Glaciers Listen?

    Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

    Series series McLean Family Canadian Studies Series
    Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting ... Leer más

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  • An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

    Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is ... Leer más

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  • The Ontological Turn

    An Anthropological Exposition

    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ... Leer más

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  • African Civilizations

    An Archaeological Perspective

    de Graham Connah ...
    This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

    Racial Oppression and Social Control

    Series Libro 1 - The Invention of the White Race
    When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control. Since that early invention, ... Leer más

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  • Race?

    Debunking a Scientific Myth

    Series Libro 15 - Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
    Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race.To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among “races” remain ... Leer más

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  • Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world.Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and ... Leer más

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