Today, it is easy to obtain information about geological, paleontological, archaeological, and biological facts related to human origins from the internet. It is also easy to find interpretations of our evolution, but many are contradictory, superfic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040292426)
On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040289037)
On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404491)
Shifting the focus to everyday life in the archaeology of the Southeast USFocusing on the daily concerns, activities, and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologi...Lasīt vairāk
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Michael D. Lieber, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Jane C. Goodale, Michele Dominy, Miriam Kahn, Pamela Sheffield Rosi, Deborah Bird Rose...
(Izdošanas datums: 20-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056543)
A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teachers principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Associa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056482)
The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from Ecuadors major Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and its ongoing aftermath in which indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian action transformed the nation-state and established new dimensions of human re...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252055911)
Race against Liberalism examines how black worker activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. David M. Lewis-Colman traces the substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and the bla...Lasīt vairāk
In many respects, the discovery of the Pithecanthropus erectus appears to be one of the most important since the Neanderthal skull was brought to light in 1857, and hence the main facts concerning it deserve early notice in this Journal. This memoir...Lasīt vairāk
Darlene Clark Hine, Terri Francis, Trica Danielle Keaton, Stephen Small, Allison Blakely, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Tina Campt, Fred Constant, Alessandra Di Maio, Philomena Essed...
Sērija : New Black Studies Series
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Dec-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047251)
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Dec-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047114)
How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in OntarioIn 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Thou...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520912755)
The cultural and even physical extinction of the worlds remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecolo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520912755)
The cultural and even physical extinction of the worlds remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecolo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520915275)
Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, Aaisas Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years fieldwork, this richly detailed study o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520915275)
Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, Aaisas Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years fieldwork, this richly detailed study o...Lasīt vairāk
A powerful and critical investigation of iron deficiency in women throughout evolutionary history and in our current societyWomen of the world are beset by a hidden hunger: iron deficiency. Up to 40 of reproductive-aged women across the globe have i...Lasīt vairāk
A powerful and critical investigation of iron deficiency in women throughout evolutionary history and in our current societyWomen of the world are beset by a hidden hunger: iron deficiency. Up to 40 of reproductive-aged women across the globe have i...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000657159)
First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority commu-nities in the West are to be understood. In Liberation and purity, Chetan Bhatt critically exa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000672879)
First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority commu-nities in the West are to be understood. In Liberation and purity, Chetan Bhatt critically exa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700633715)
John C. Ewers Book AwardVoted one of the ten best books in Native American and Indigenous Studies by the membership of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700633715)
John C. Ewers Book AwardVoted one of the ten best books in Native American and Indigenous Studies by the membership of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000836806)
This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how contaminated environments and political-economic changes render urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS, a c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000836837)
This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how contaminated environments and political-economic changes render urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS, a c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054334)
The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the s...Lasīt vairāk
Wayne Suttles has devoted much of his professional life to research on the cultures of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, especially the Coast Salish of the Georgia Strait-Puget Sound Basin. Born and raised in this region, he has been guide...Lasīt vairāk
This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection...Lasīt vairāk
This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection...Lasīt vairāk
The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes. This text aims to review the recent literature on anthropogenic (of human origin) influen...Lasīt vairāk
The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes. This text aims to review the recent literature on anthropogenic (of human origin) influen...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054426)
Arriving in New England first as crew members of whaling vessels, Afro-Portuguese immigrants from Cape Verde later came as permanent settlers and took work in the cranberry industry, on the docks, and as domestic workers. Marilyn Halter combines or...Lasīt vairāk
If youre intrigued by the question "e;What makes us human "e;, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of anthropologyFrom the first steps of our prehistoric ancestors, to the development of complex languages, to the intricacies o...Lasīt vairāk
David K. Yoo, Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Ruth H. Chung, Ruth H. Chung, Jae Ran Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Rebecca Kim, Sharon Kim, Okyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee...
Sērija : Asian American Experience
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054259)
Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interd...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054198)
The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and...Lasīt vairāk
Kimberly A. Plomp, Charlotte A. Roberts, Sarah Elton, Gilian R. Bentley
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jul-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192589613)
Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology. To date, howeve...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultu...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultu...Lasīt vairāk
Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. Thats about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive...Lasīt vairāk
Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. Thats about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134086870)
Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory provides a critical analysis of the main areas of scholarly research and debate about racial and ethnic relations over the past few decades. The book covers substantive areas of scholarly debate in this fast-changing...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134086948)
Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory provides a critical analysis of the main areas of scholarly research and debate about racial and ethnic relations over the past few decades. The book covers substantive areas of scholarly debate in this fast-changing...Lasīt vairāk
Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced childhood.Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unrav...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Utah Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781647690397)
Hot, arid, and uninhabited, the western Midriff Islands lie in the Gulf of California, surrounded by an often-treacherous sea. Given these conditions, why would ancient people go there, and why would anybody go there today? Thomas Bowen addresses the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691244594)
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691244594)
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, a...Lasīt vairāk
