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The Slave Shipby Marcus Rediker
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the ?floating dungeons? at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. more...
Aboriginal Victoriansby Richard Broome
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.05The fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians. more...
Millennial Monstersby Anne Allison; Gary Cross
University of California Press 2006; US$ 15.95From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese ?cool? is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods today while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved. Arguing that part of the appeal of such dream worlds is the polymorphous perversity with which they scramble identity and character, the author... more...
Settlementby Peter Read
Aboriginal Studies Press 2000; US$ 31.00This book encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing. more...
Scars in the Landscapeby Ian Clark
Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 20.00Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803?1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region. more...
The Seer in Ancient Greeceby Michael Flower
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton 2007; US$ 15.95The seer ( mantis ), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining the livers of sacrificed animals to spirit possession. Unlike the palm readers and mediums who exist on the fringe of modern society, many seers were highly paid, well respected, educated members of the elite who played an essential role in the conduct of daily life, political decisions, and military campaigns. Armies, for example, never went anywhere without one. This engaging book, the only comprehensive study of this fascinating figure, enters into the socioreligious world of ancient Greece to explore what seers did, why they were so widely employed, and how... more...
Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.16Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. more...
Moroccan Households in the World Economyby David Crawford
LSU Press 2008; US$ 18.95In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible from the surrounding landscape. Yet a closer look reveals a carefully planned community of homes nestled above the trees, where rock slides are least frequent, and steep terraces of barley fields situated just above spring flood level. The Berber-speaking Muslims who live and farm on these precipitous mountainsides work together at the arduous task of irrigating the fields during the dry season, continuing a long tradition of managing land, labor, and other essential resources collectively. In Moroccan Households in the World Economy, David Crawford provides a detailed study of the rhythms of highland... more...
Evolution, Order and Complexityby Elias Kahlil; Kenneth Boulding
Routledge 1996; US$ 200.00This volume of essays explores the relationship between the natural and social worlds using general system theory. more...
Interpreting Japanese Societyby Joy Hendry
Routledge 1998; US$ 64.95First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropology in understanding this ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated. more...