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  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Politicsby Joan Vincent; David Nugent

    Wiley 2008; US$ 146.95

    This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of... more...

  • Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualitiesby Jennifer Robertson

    Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95

    This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Moves beyond other “lesbian and gay studies” readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures. Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology:... more...

  • Ethnobotonyby Kim Young

    Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 45.00

    Discover how cultures use plants for food, fuel, medicine, shelter, and religious ceremonies, and how scientists look to traditional remedies to fight disease. more...

  • Cognition and Material Cultureby Colin Renfrew; Christopher Scarre

    McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2008; US$ 40.00

    The 15 papers in this volume explore how human beliefs have been externalized and "stored" in material form, thus making very intangible ideas exist in a permanent form. more...

  • Inzestverbot und Gesetzgebungby Karl Ubl

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00

    From the 6th to 11th centuries, the prohibition of marriage between relatives (incest) often headed the agenda of legislative assemblies and can be seen as a key topic of this age. The reasons for this unique development have occupied ethnologists, sociologists and historians for quite some time. This book is the first to trace the radical expansion... more...

  • Handbuch der kommunalen Wissenschaft und Praxis: Band 1: Grundlagen und Kommunalverfassung (v. 1) (German Edition)by Thomas Mann; Günter Püttner; T. Elvers

    Springer 2007; US$ 159.99

    Das Handbuch der kommunalen Wissenschaft und Praxis (HKWP) ist das führende Standardwerk im Bereich der Kommunalwissenschaften. Mit seinem Konzept, den aktuellen Forschungsstand mehrerer geisteswissenschaftlicher Fächer mit dem empirischen Wissen der Praxis zu kombinieren, ist es seit nunmehr über fünfzig Jahren ohne Konkurrenz. Auch in seiner dritten... more...

  • Technologyby Daniel R. Headrick

    Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99

    Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings... more...

  • Discourses on Social Softwareby Jan van Eijck; Rineke Verbrugge

    Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 54.00

    Kunnen de computerwetenschappers bijdragen aan een oplossing van sociale problemen? Kan logica gebruikt worden om sociale interactie te modelleren? Zijn er regels op te stellen om groepen met afwijkende voorkeuren tot redelijke besluiten te laten komen?. Discourses on Social Software biedt de lezer een ideale inleiding op (nog nieuwe) gebied van sociale... more...

  • Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Differenceby Professor Bo Petersson; Dr Katharine Tyler

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00

    Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'? more...

  • Negotiating Ethnicityby Susan Emley Keefe

    Wiley 2009; US$ 33.95

    NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology dedicated to the practical problem-solving... more...