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Ben Shaw

Developing Maritime Economies of the Pre-Colonial Massim, Papua New Guinea

The Massim region of Papua New Guinea has been the focus of intensive ethnographic interest for over a century because of sociocultural practices and maritime economies that connect island populations, in…

John Blair

Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

Talia Rose Weiner

Therapeutic Inequalities

Argues that self-management approaches for depressive disorders ask the most from those with the leastTherapeutic Inequalities offers a powerful and timely critique of the U.S. mental healthcare system, u…

Ece Temelkuran

Together

A powerful manifesto for change and argument for hope, compassion and faith in the face of the challenges of the twenty-first century, from award-winning political thinker Ece Temelkuran

R Gwinn Vivian, Samantha G. Fladd

Capturing Water

An esteemed archaeologist's lifetime of work on water use in Chaco CanyonThe ability of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon to sustain themselves through farming in an arid environment has long been a topic o…

Toby Wilkinson

World Beneath the Sands

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atm…

Daniel Odess, David F. Bustos, Matthew Bennett

Those Who Walked Before

One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas.On a …

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

The Quintessence 1947 -

Christopher Cavanagh

The Galli Priests of Cybele

Presenting a study of the Galli priests of the Roman cult of Cybele, the Great Mother goddess, this book examines the archaeological evidence to give a clearer picture of the priesthood. The Galli were pr…

Richard Hodges

Butrint

Archaeological and historical introduction to the site of Butrint in Albania from the Bronze Age to modern times.

Andrew K. Scherer

As the Gods Kill

An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.

Premodern Economies

Economies are fundamental to all human societies by providing the material support for their populations and respective social institutions. This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, anthropo…

Richard Bradley

Insularity and Identity

This Element considers historiography - the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which scholars have drawn on Briti…

André Leroi-Gourhan,

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time.André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology …

Amateurs in North American Archaeology

Interrogates the boundaries between amateur and professional archaeologyUntil the mid-twentieth century, professional archaeologists readily worked alongside amateur or avocational archaeologists--those w…

Richard Hodges

The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

Edward Banning

Archaeological Reasoning

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past…

Meredith F Small

Family

From the acclaimed author of Our Babies, Ourselvescomes an illuminating and thought-provoking look at the nature of family across time and cultures.Family is the most ubiquitous and persistent human socia…

Marshall Sahlins

Culture in Practice

A collection of essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.