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5 CONTINENTS EDITIONS (2005)
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The appeal of New Guinea's art lies in the people's extraordinary resourcefulness and creativity. For centuries, they have made objects in order to communicate with the spirit world. Many pieces, based on myths and ancient ...
INSOLITE (2005)
pvp.59,00 €
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Un dimanche de mai 1954, à Londres, sur un étalage de marché aux puces, Emmanuel Anati repère un curieux morceau d'étoffe, orné de rayures alternées couleur ébène et ivoire. Intrigué, il l'achète pour quelques pences ...
ZONE BOOKS (2005)
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Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with ...
PRESTEL (2005)
pvp.67,00 €
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Images of outstanding African masks from the world's leading museums and private collections reveal the splendor and majesty of these fascinating masterpieces. The masks seen in these pages represent diversity and an aesthetic power that ...
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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2005)
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Amiria Henare explores the study of material culture in the development of anthropology and shows that the collection of artefacts and their formal study, both in museums and in the field, have been central anthropological ...
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2005)
pvp.42,00 €
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Almost twenty years ago, a young Canadian woman, Mary Jane Gagnier, travelled through Mexico on a journey of self-exploration. One evening on the zócaló in Oaxaca, she met a weaver from the nearby village of ...
OCARINA BOOKS (2005)
pvp.72,00 €
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This substantial collection of papers on indigenous astronomical knowledge is quite unequalled in its scope and extent. The authors are drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, engineering, art history, history ...
ROUTLEDGE (2005)
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Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue ...
ABRAMS (2004)
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The works of contemporary Native artists from the Northwest Coast and desert Southwest regions of North America are enormously popular today, especially in the realm of jewelry. This handsome book-and the traveling exhibition it accompanies-explores ...
FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS (2004)
pvp.705,95 €
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There was a time when minority populations around the globe were often overlooked, their histories forgotten, their needs ignored. With globalization and conflict, social and political changes in the last decades have given rise to ...
THAMES & HUDSON (2004)
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With over 400 superb illustrations, this global survey explores all aspects of amulets, not only their creation and symbolism, but the people and objects they protect. Malign spirits have always been feared, but modern dangers ...
5 CONTINENTS EDITIONS (2004)
pvp.49,00 €
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The extraordinary photographs of Johnathan Watts allow us to witness the richness of the Hindu rituals of Kerala, and perfectly portray the diversity of peoples and customs in this colourful southern Indian state. The contrasts ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2004)
pvp.39,00 €
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Several decades of research into the archaeology of contact in North America have laid the foundations for the global exploration of the archaeology of European colonization. It is significant, however, that archaeologists, unlike historians and ...
BATTY (2004)
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Afrikan alphabets have a rich cultural and artistic history. Many continue to be in current use today. Their story, however, is little known due largely to their past suppression by colonial powers. This book sets ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2004)
pvp.38,00 €
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Along the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, the archaeological remains of earthen pyramids, plazas and works of art testify to Native American civilisations that thrived there between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 1500. This book presents ...
ROUTLEDGE (2004)
pvp.240,00 €
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Religious beliefs are expressed through ritualized behaviour and festivals. Many rituals and all festivals take place in public, meaning that these expressions of faith are societal as well as individual forms of human behaviour. There ...
ROUTLEDGE (2004)
pvp.190,00 €
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This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the ...
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO (2004)
pvp.42,00 €
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With contributions from sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists as well as archaeologists, this volume is the first to present case studies of social identity and feasting from throughout the Greater Southwest. A section of the book ...
THAMES & HUDSON (2004)
pvp.70,00 €
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Over fifteen years and many expeditions, Fritz Trupp and Robert Schmid have documented the customs and cultures of the forgotten tribes of Asia, from the Bedouins of southern Arabia to the nomadic Tsaatan of the ...
A & C BLACK (2004)
pvp.63,35 €
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It is often claimed that women were the first potters. While this may or may not be the case, the earliest pottery techniques are still used today in many parts of the world, largely by ...
