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Body modification practices express identity, conform to social norms, and convey cultural values that express cultural, social, and individual meanings. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology ofBody Modification provides a comprehensive understanding...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-23
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The Times and Financial Times Book of the YearA revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live.'Absolutely brilliant.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow___Meet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2021-06-08
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Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. SeanRedmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-08
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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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This book addresses the pressing challenges of the twenty-first century—an era marked by crises and uncertainty—by advocating for anthropology’s vital role in fostering compassionate intercultural dialogue and promoting harmonious coexistence between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-10
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This book shows how racial perception goes beyond the limits of sight. Drawing on Semiotic Cultural Psychology, it challenges the dominant visuocentric paradigm that equates race with visually apprehended phenotypic traits. Through an in-depth case study of a...
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Springer
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2026-01-05
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This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments. Identity is a crucial topic in archaeology...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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Die sich neu formierende und sich dabei stark ausdifferenzierende Designwissenschaft hat das Potential, eine „revolutionäre“ Disziplin zu sein: Gespeist unter anderem vom Material Turn und vom Design Turn behandelt sie ein Feld, das künstlerische...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-01-01
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This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia. Against the background of country-specific evasive politics on race and a discourse of colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been accomplished in all spheres of life, as tacitly assumed by those who claim to apply the model of the profit-optimizing agent...
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Polity
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2025-12-23
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While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with ‘science proper’ – the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality – has been called into question in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-11-27
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The ecological crisis at a planetary scale has heightened our awareness of the geological impact of human activities and the possibility of human species extinction. Within the heightened consciousness of hubris and vulnerability encoded in the Anthropocene discourse,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-25
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Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book provides a detailed look into the social world of infants and toddlers and explores the consequences of that environment on learning and socio-emotional development. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and systematic observation in a rural community in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-16
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This book distils thirty years of creative practice into a rigorous inquiry that bridges artmaking, somatic intelligence, and systems thinking. Rooted in the author’s concept of Embodied Matter Exploration (EME), it positions creativity as cultural metabolism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-14
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Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant cultural lives...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-11
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The notion of sense of place developed across disciplines to study the range of experiential, relational, and emotive attachments between people and spatial constellations. This collection proposes a sense of placing to render visible complex cultural practices of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-08
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23 real-life stories revealing the rules for working successfully across culturesThere is no excuse for cultural ignorance in the 21st century. The greatest factor affecting the success or failure of a global business is understanding the cultural differences that lie...
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John Murray Business
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2025-11-06
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This Palgrave Pivot offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between gender, identity, and religion among the Nat community, a marginalized nomadic group in India and Nepal. Chapters delve into the historical context, societal norms, and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Contributing scholars engaging with Southern African contexts challenge hegemonic climate paradigms. They employ pluralistic strategies that respect diverse epistemologies and advance decolonised discourse. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, this...
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Springer VS
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2025-10-21
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