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A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2023-03-10
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the experience of...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-03-09
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The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-02-23
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Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our...
Editeur :
Polity
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2023-02-22
ePub
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There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value.There is an effort to recapture the achievements and failures of past work to guide present use. This book is based...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-20
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This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion and integration from a health systems perspective. Tribal healing practices is an under-studied component in healthcare system, health policy and...
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Springer
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2023-02-19
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This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families. In previous research on family firms and business families, the comparative cross-cultural approach of anthropology has so far received little attention. As a result, family...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-13
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While previous research has explored the academic adaptation or acculturation processes of Chinese students studying abroad, limited attention has been paid to students’ own perspectives and narrations of their experience. To contribute to a more nuanced understanding...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-31
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This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-31
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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-30
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This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Global Entrepreneurship
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This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-16
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In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a...
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Springer VS
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2023-01-11
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This book focuses on the example of surrogate motherhood to explore the interplay between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies. It seeks to interrogate the potential of fictional multimodality in ethnography and to illuminate the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-10
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Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood. They are spending longer in school, entering the labour market later, and getting married later still. This protracted young adulthood interacts with forces of both...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-01-06
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Dieses Buch über das Leben und Werk von Francis Huxley (1923–2016) zeichnet zugleich die Suche nach dem Verständnis der Conditio humana nach und nimmt seine Leserinnen und Leser mit auf eine biografische, philosophische, kulturelle, historische, politische und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-04
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In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
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