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Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz provide...

In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371307Author Terence McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union over half a million Polish migrants have registered to work in the United Kingdom, constituting one of the largest migration movements in contemporary Europe. Drawing on research undertaken across a wide...

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection...

A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives-mostly civilian-and completely destroyed homes, crops,...

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845506Author Jared M DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 322g

This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice...

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the...

"Quite an interesting book... " -Religious Studies Review "It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." -The American Rationalist "... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607324614Author James MaffieFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 829g

First published in 1993. Published here for the first time in English, this highly important work by Henry Corbin, the Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian of religion, is a definitive interpretation of traditional Islamic philosophy from the...

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In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-better known as the Tamil Tigers-officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities...

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book...

This volume is a collection of a number of country folk tales. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like crooker, the uncanny black dog makes his appearance in more than one tale and also include several...

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers--are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and...

Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing',...

Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical...

First published in 1988. Two Andalusian Philosophers provides a short but comprehensive introduction to the central concerns of Islamic philosophy. The Story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl and The Definitive Statement by ibn Rushd represent the last,...

This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view...

Turner's ethnography of camp dynamics offers a detailed analysis of the tension between humanitarian constructions of refugees and refugees' own subjectivities. Through the analysis of the politics of innocence, Turner helps to elucidate a familiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352827Author Haidy GeismarFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323532Author Fernando Armstrong-FumeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538183489Author Tyler G O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426041Author Wanni W AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 454g

This study examines five modernists in different disciplines - biology, painting, drama, fiction, and anthropology - whose work on islands made them famous. Charles Darwin challenged every presumption of popular science with his theory of evolution by...

Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often...

Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community. "A most stimulating book....Praying for Justice is very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334303Author Desmond MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist.War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting...

Written by an exiled former Secretary General of the Chin National League for Democracy, this study contains valuable data on the Chin and their role in the history of Burma, and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion,...

Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425648Author Christine A KrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607324232Author Mary I. O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 380g

The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo Lopez Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religion y politica en el mundo nahuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323426Author P. Nick KarduliasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 555g