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  • - From Columbus to Collier and Beyond
    av William Y. Adams
    285,-

    Addresses the idea that "the Indian," as conceived by colonial powers and later by different postcolonial interest groups, was as much ideology as empirical reality. Adams surveys the policies of the various colonial and postcolonial powers, then reflects upon the great ideological, moral, and intellectual issues that underlay those policies.

  • - The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age
     
    687,-

    By using a specific case study, the contributors to this book aim to help establish a common theoretical ground for investigating how humans and the societies they built interacted over time.

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    345,-

  • - A Decolonization Handbook
     
    316,-

  • - Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics
    av Erica Bornstein
    412,-

  • av Stephen H. Lekson
    530,-

  • - Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies
     
    345,-

    From a week-long seminar in October 1993 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11 essays explore such questions as the Citadel problem of how science gains authority to direct truth practices; the boundaries between humans and machines; and the Cyborg problem of how science, technology, and medicine contribute

  • - The Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century
    av Stephen Trimble
    270,-

    In this revised, expanded, and redesigned edition, Trimble brings his classic into the twenty-first century with interviews and photographs from a new generation of potters working to preserve the miraculous balance between tradition and innovation.

  • - Regimes of Value and Material Culture
     
    420,-

    Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural flow in an increasingly global economy and the cultural differences registered in "regimes of value."

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    345,-

    In this compelling new volume, eight respected ethnographers explore and lyrically evoke the ways in which people experience, express, imagine, and know the places in which they live. As these writers confront the dilemmas and possibilities of an anthropological consideration of place, they make an important and moving contribution to our understanding of ourselves.

  • - The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology
    av Janis H. Jenkins
    479,-

  • - New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World
     
    452,-

    Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times--and also about our own.

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    452,-

    Taken together, the chapters in this volume constitute an argument for a new way of thinking about how archaeology is (and should be) conducted.

  • - The Anthropology of Disaster
     
    279,-

    Using a variety of natural and technological disasters, the authors of this volume explore the potentials of disaster for ecological, political-economic, and cultural approaches to anthropology along with the perspectives of archaeology and history.

  • - Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation
     
    479,-

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    420,-

    The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

  • - Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
     
    412,-

  • - Working in the Present
     
    412,-

    The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as ""culture"", once had.

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