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Survival of the Friendliest(2021) HARE, BRIAN,WOODS, VANESSAWhat is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect…or something much nicer?Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Ghosts of Archive(2022) HARRIS, VERNEGhosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Prototype Nation(2020) LINDTNER, SILVIA M.A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production.Vezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Ritual Animal(2021) WHITEHOUSE, HARVEY (CHAIR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, CHAIR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Copying rituals has allowed cultural groups to proliferate over time. Rare, traumatic rituals produce strong cohesion in small relational groups, whereas daily/weekly rituals produce cohesion in expandable communities. This study presents a theory of howVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Food Words(2015) JACKSON, PETER (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK)Featuring a series of highly original and lively essays, Food Words traces the multiple meanings of the most important keywords in the fast-moving field of food studies. This is essential reading for all food scholars and students.Vezava: Mehka44,89 € -
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Angel and the Cholent(2021) PINTEL-GINSBERG, IDITTranslated into English for the first time from Hebrew, this bok analyses how food and foodways are the major agents generating the plots of several significant folktales. The tales were chosen from the Israel Folktales Archives' (IFA) extensive collectioVezava: Mehka40,31 € -
queerqueen(2020) MAREE, CLAIRE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER AT ASIA INSTITUTE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER AT ASIA INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)Vezava: Mehka77,63 € -
Global Governed?(2020) PINCOCK, KATE (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),BETTS, ALEXANDER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),EASTON-CALABRIA, EVAN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This book examines the role of refugees as providers of assistance to other refugees. Drawing upon ideas from anthropology and international relations, it offers an alternative vision for more participatory global governance, of relevance to other policyVezava: Mehka68,43 € -
To Know the Soul of a People(2022) DRAKE, JAMIL W. (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY)To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religiouVezava: Mehka47,51 € -
Tales from the Desert Borderland(2020) TAYLOR, LAWRENCE J.Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.Vezava: Mehka41,57 € -
Living Before Dying(2017) DAVIES, JANETTEIn-depth life in a nursing home Researcher worked alongside care assistants Long-term observation of people with dementia Insight into residential care for people with dementia and their relativesVezava: Trda170,54 € -
Ghosts of the Tsunami(2018) PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD‘A remarkable and deeply moving book’ Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm ‘A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction’ Times Literary Supplement On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coastVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Near Human(2021) SVENDSEN, METTE N.Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science, and in hospitals, Mette Svendsen redirects the question of ""what it means"" to be human to ""what it takes"" to be human and to forge a nation.Vezava: Mehka53,45 €
