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  • The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

    The Foraging Spectrum

    de Robert L. Kelly ...
    In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Fifth Beginning

    What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

    de Robert L. Kelly ...
    “I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Pollution Is Colonialism

    de Max Liboiron ...
    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Hadza

    Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania

    de Frank Marlowe ...
    Series Libro 3 - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
    In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Indigenous Peoples of North America

    A Concise Anthropological Overview

    de Robert J. Muckle ...
    Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America, from prehistory to the present. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Hierarchy in the Forest

    The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

    de Christopher Boehm ...
    Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to ... Leer más

    $40.49 USD

  • The Human Swarm

    How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

    de Mark W. Moffett ...
    The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edición de Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Placing Animals

    An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations

    de Julie Urbanik ...
    Series series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • A Different Kind of Animal

    How Culture Transformed Our Species

    de Robert Boyd ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • Ethics and Animals

    An Introduction

    de Lori Gruen ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD