Social And Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Social Sciences

Christophe Darmangeat,
Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most distant past inform today's feminist struggles? This new, updated edition of Primitive Communis…

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Capturing Expressivity

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive item…

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Aaron T Hollander
Saint George Liberator

A compelling investigation of how representations of Orthodox Christian saints serve as means of resistance amid cultural and political domination On the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, repeatedl…

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Eugenia Kisin
Aesthetics of Repair

Drawing on contemporary Indigenous art practices, Aesthetics of Repair explores the collision of ceremonial protocols with visual forms of repair in the Pacific Northwest.

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John Vaillant
Fire Weather

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION - A stunning account of a col…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

"How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhi…

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians. Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and…

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Jazz Migrations

Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these mu…

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Religious Plurality in Africa

Explores similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam and African religious traditions.

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Katie Rose Hejtmanek
The Cult of Crossfit

"Based on seven years of research on CrossFit, this book uses the fitness regimen as a window into the way American historical legacies are meaningful today. This includes cultural Christianity, frontier …

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement To the extent that M…

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Where Words and Images Meet

Why do we put bookplates in books in our personal libraries? Why do we keep photographs? How do popular illustrated journals and magazines function? Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely r…

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Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classe…

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Oren Yiftachel
Ethnocracy

Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a …

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Libuse Hannah Veprek
At the Edge of AI

Science Studies

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek exami…

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R M W Dixon
A New Grammar of Dyirbal

This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and dr…

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians. Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and…

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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participant…

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement To the extent that M…

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Fang Fang,
Wuhan Diary

Das Tagebuch der berühmten chinesischen Schriftstellerin Fang Fang aus einer abgeriegelten Stadt ist ein einzigartiges, ergreifendes Zeitdokument über den Kampf gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind, den die Men…

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