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Ritual Sacrifice
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. Human, animal or inanimate offerings were an essential part of an effort to handle natural disasters, secure good luck or good health, ensure success in war or commerce, in fact to produce any outcome that could better life on Earth. This fascinating book provides the first general, fully... more...
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
University of California Press 2008; US$ 55.00This innovative work of historical archaeology illuminates the genesis of the Californios, a community of military settlers who forged a new identity on the northwest edge of Spanish North America. Since 1993, Barbara L. Voss has conducted archaeological excavations at the Presidio of San Francisco, founded by Spain during its colonization of California's... more...
The Subject of Anthropology
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthropology and psychoanalysis, she demonstrates how recent theorizing on subjectivity,... more...
Selected Papers from the First Annual Canadian Quality Congress
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 199.00The papers in this e-book have been selected from presentations made at the first annual Canadian Quality Congress held August 2009 in Vancouver, Canada, under the theme, Quality, Innovation and Social Responsibility. The papers in this e-book are from authors considered to be the out of the box thinkers. The papers cover topics... more...
Ethnographies of the Videogame
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, as... more...
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1998; US$ 29.95How do people understand one another when they do not share a common cultural experience?This is the first fundamental question posed in editor Milton J. Bennett's Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication. The ideas contained in this collection have been assembled from time-tested classics and more contemporary viewpoints. Bennett has selected... more...
Unternehmenskulturen in globaler Interaktion
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99









