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  • The Chinese Yams (Dioscorea Batata)

    Historical, botanical and health aspekts of the light root

    by Tobias Hartkemeyer, Julia Hartkemeyer, Noëmi Böken, Matthias Busl, Sabine Hagg, Ute Küpper, Hartmut Ramm, Bettina und Peer Schleyerbach, Nicolai Schmidt, Jing Zeng ...
    The Chinese Yams: Dioscorea Batatas (6th revised edition, January 2025) by Dr. Tobias and Julia Hartkemeyer explores the historical, botanical, and health aspects of the Chinese yam, also known as the light root or Lichtyam. This comprehensive work delves into the plant's taxonomy, ethnobotany, cultivation, nutritional properties, and medicinal significance, drawing on contributions from experts ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spirits and Trance in Brazil

    An Anthropology of Religious Experience

    by Dr Bettina E. Schmidt ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
    Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by excerpts from interviews with people about their experiences. It focuses on spirit possession in Afro ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

    Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City

    by Bettina Schmidt ...
    Series series Vitality of Indigenous Religions
    Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures are full of breaks and contradictions as Latin American and Caribbean theorists have demonstrated in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

    Edited by Bettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Spirit Possession and Trance

    New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Dr Bettina E. Schmidt, Dr Lucy Huskinson ...
    Series series Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
    Spirit possession is a phenomenon that often elicits a response of fear, particular in those who are ignorant of its meaning and role within its particular religious and cultural traditions. Possession by divine beings (such as spirits or gods) is, however, a key practice in religions worldwide. It is therefore important to gain an understanding of this practice in its cultural context before ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    The Science of Advanced Aromatherapy

    by Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D. ...
    Explores science’s new biological understanding of essential oils for improved immunity and treatment of degenerative diseases• Explains how essential oils convey the complex natural healing powers of plants, offering scientifically proven advantages over synthetic drugs• Offers revolutionary essential oil treatments to ameliorate the side effects of chemotherapy and other cancer treatments as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On Decoloniality

    Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Renegade Beauty

    Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance--Beauty Secrets, Solutions, and Preparations

    by Nadine Artemis ...
    Rethink conventional notions of beauty and wellness, abandon established regimes and commercial products, and embrace your “renegade” beautyIn this essential full-color guide, Nadine Artemis introduces readers to the concept of "renegade" beauty—a practice of doing less and allowing the elements and the life force of nature to revive the body, skin, and soul so our natural radiance can shine ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Fungal Pharmacy

    The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America

    by Robert Rogers ...
    The ultimate guide to maximizing the healing properties of medicinal mushrooms and lichens—featuring over 300 detailed plant profiles for easy mushroom identification!Noted herbalist Robert Rogers introduces readers to more than 300 species of medicinal mushrooms and lichens found in North America. These fungi have the capacity to heal both the body and—through the process of myco-remediation—the ... Read more

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  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    by Marisol de la Cadena ...
    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... Read more

    $21.99 USD