Archaeology of Chaco Canyon

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• The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ce... Lees meer

Things in Motion

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• Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in which... Lees meer

Themes in Southwest Prehistory

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• Two dozen leading archaeologists isolate a number of themes that were central to the process of increasing complexity in prehistoric Southwestern soci... Lees meer

Ideology and Pre-Columbian

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• Employing data from central Mexico, the Maya area, coastal Peru, and highland Peru and Bolivia, directors of several major archaeological field projec... Lees meer

Costly and Cute

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• Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that ma... Lees meer

Global Health in Times of Violence

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• What are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence? Since World War II, at least 160 wars have erupted around the g... Lees meer

Forces of Compassion

Erica Bornstein

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• Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras and religious trad... Lees meer

Images That Move

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• Images play a significant part in projects of "poetic world-making" and political transformation. They participate in the production of commensuration... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters

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• Colonialism and its legacies have emerged as one of the most important research topics in anthropology. Indeed, we now understand that colonialism gav... Lees meer

Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control

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• What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to an interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a considerat... Lees meer

Figuring the Future

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• Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in ... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Culture

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• At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-o... Lees meer

Shipwreck Anthropology

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• "Shipwrecks are part of the legitimate domain of anthropology and can produce results that are as significant for our ability to explain variability i... Lees meer

Archaeology of Colonial Encounters

• Paperback | Engels | School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
• Colonialism and its legacies have emerged as one of the most important research topics in anthropology. Indeed, we now understand that colonialism gav... Lees meer

Copán

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• This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors-internationally ... Lees meer

Cash on the Table

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• A great deal is at stake in understanding the moral dimensions of economic behavior and markets. Public debates over executive compensation, the fair ... Lees meer

Nature, Science, and Religion

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• This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmo... Lees meer

Seduced and Betrayed

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• Microfinance began as the disbursement of tiny loans to the poor, which they could use to undertake informal income-generating activities. It went on ... Lees meer

New Landscapes of Inequality

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• The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate... Lees meer

Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism

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• Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, èmigrè Croats, and organ... Lees meer

Critical Anthropology Now

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• Building on the legacy of Writing Culture , Critical Anthropology Now vividly represents the changing nature of anthropological research practice, dem... Lees meer

Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management

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• By most estimates, as much as 90 percent of the archaeology done in the United States today is carried out in the field of cultural resource managemen... Lees meer

Street Economies in the Urban Global South

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• This book focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South. Although contestations ... Lees meer

The Evolution of Human Life History

Kristen Hawkes, Nancy Barrickman, Meredith L. Bastian, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Barry Bogin

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• Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why ... Lees meer