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  • Marking the Land

    Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment

    Edited by William A Lovis, Robert Whallon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be intentional or ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadow of the Palms

    More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

    by Sophie Chao ...
    With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

    Edited by Bruno David, Julian Thomas ...
    Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Ethno-ornithology

    Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society

    Edited by Andrew Gosler, Sonia Tidemann ...
    Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Cryptozoology

    Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures

    Edited by Samantha Hurn ...
    Series series Multispecies Encounters
    Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, there is a growing recognition that social science can benefit from engaging with it, for as as ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Manifesting Power

    Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology

    Edited by Tracy L. Sweely ...
    Power relations among humans have likely been a topic of interest since long before any historical claims to its nature were proffered. This book recognizes that power and gender may be rooted in the experience of power in western society. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

    Shaping Your Landscape

    Edited by Robert Layton, Peter Ucko ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Rediscovery of the Wild

    Edited by Patricia H. Hasbach, Peter H. Kahn Jr. ...
    A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a speciesWe often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature—untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD