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Anthropology

  • An Archaeology of Architectureby Dennis Tedlock; Arthur Sze

    University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 50.00

    Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting , a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. more...

  • American Anthropology and Companyby Stephen O. Murray

    UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 65.00

    In American Anthropology and Company , linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American linguistics to the pitfalls of American, Latin American,... more...

  • Rethinking the Irish in the American Southby Bryan Albin Giemza

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 150.00

    Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in Southern context in powerful, but disparate, registers: music, literature, and often, a sense of shared... more...

  • Studying Gender in Classical Antiquityby Lin Foxhall

    Cambridge University Press 2013; Not Available

    Up-to-date, theoretically informed historical survey of the practices and performance of gender in ancient Greece and Rome. more...

  • Animal Teeth and Human Toolsby Christy G. Turner; Nicolai D. Ovodov; Olga V. Pavlova

    Cambridge University Press 2013; Not Available

    A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia. more...

  • The World is a Carpetby Anna Badkhen

    Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99

    An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war. In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can?t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a... more...

  • Ethnomethodology at Playby Peter Tolmie; Mark Rouncefield

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95

    Demonstrating the breadth of ethnomethodological analysis and showing how no topic is beyond ethnomethodology's fundamental respecification, Ethnomethodology at Play sets out for the serious reader and researcher the precise contribution of ethnomethodology to sociological studies of sport and leisure and ordinary domestic pastimes. As such this... more...

  • Long May She Waveby Kit Hinrichs; Delphine Hirasuna; Gerard C. Wertkin

    Ten Speed Press 2013; US$ 60.00

    From one of the world's leading graphic designers comes a stunning tribute to America's most enduring icon-the Stars and Stripes.The Revolutionary Congress resolved in 1777 that "the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 white stars in a blue field representing a new constellation." Since that time,... more...

  • Venice: Lion Cityby Garry Wills

    Washington Square Press 2013; Not Available

    Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...

  • Venice: Lion Cityby Garry Wills

    Washington Square Press 2013; Not Available

    Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...