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How To Think Like a Neandertal
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 18.99There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account... more...
Chanting Down the New Jerusalem
University of California Press 2008; US$ 50.00In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend... more...
Wilhelm Wundt - Völkerpsychologie
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008; US$ 33.06Hauptbeschreibung Wie entwickelt sich das Selbstbewusstsein einer Gruppe, eines Volkes, einer Nation oder einer Staatengemeinschaft? Welche unbewussten Prozesse wirken bei der Entwicklung von Sprache, Mythos und Sitte, durch die die Einzelnen miteinander verbunden sind? Diesen kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen geht Wundt in seinen völkerpsychologischen... more...
Migration And Health In The European Union
McGraw-Hill Education 2011; US$ 207.00This book, part of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy series, focuses on the different aspects of migration and health and how they can be addressed by health care systems. This is a key text for health policy makers and advisers. more...
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 29.95Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of... more...
Genetics and the Unsettled Past
Rutgers University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Essays by scholars across a wide range of disciplines—biology,... more...
The Scars of Evolution
Souvenir Press 2012; US$ 13.11In this lively and controversial book Elaine Morgan presents a challenging interpretation to the question of human evolution. With brilliant logic she argues that our hominid ancestors began to evolve in response to an aquatic environment. Millions of years ago something happened that caused our ancestors to walk on two legs, to lose their fur, to... more...
Landscape of the Mind
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 54.99John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the mind, drawing on information from the human fossil record, archaeology, and history. Hoffecker argues that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools, evolving the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form... more...
Man's Place in Nature
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00Thomas H. Huxley was one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin?s theory of evolution by natural selection, and he did more than any other writer to advance its acceptance among scientists and nonscientists alike. His most famous book, Man?s Place in Nature , published only five years after Darwin?s The Origin of Species , offers a compelling... more...
Your Pocket Is What Cures You
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 25.95In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes the implementation... more...









