Interpretative Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric mat... Lees meer

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflec... Lees meer

Beauty and Power

Mark Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making... Lees meer

A Celebration of Demons

Bruce Kapferer

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author ... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Time

Alfred Gell

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and polit... Lees meer

What's in a Relative

Joan Bestard-Camps

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 5
• In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can... Lees meer

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflec... Lees meer

Hahalis and the Labour of Love

Max Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to... Lees meer

Uncommon Ground

Veronica Strang

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international... Lees meer

A Phenomenology of Landscape

Christopher Tilley

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates p... Lees meer

Interpretative Archaeology

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric mat... Lees meer

The Urban Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 22
• Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of... Lees meer

Material Conflicts

Neil Jarman

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role para... Lees meer

Believing Identity

Nicole Toulis

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for ... Lees meer

Believing Identity

Nicole Toulis

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for ... Lees meer

The Inca Empire

Thomas C Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study... Lees meer

A Phenomenology of Landscape

Christopher Tilley

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates p... Lees meer

Constituting the Minangkabau

Joel Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected... Lees meer

Marketing and Modernity

Marianne E Lien

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 40
• What 200 products can be made from a dead chicken?What should turkey really taste like?How can you make a ready-made meal appear less manufactured?How... Lees meer

Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach

Daniel Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to charac... Lees meer

The Inca Empire

Thomas C Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study... Lees meer

Discourses of Development

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers thin... Lees meer

Uncommon Ground

Veronica Strang

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international... Lees meer