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This account of Leviticus presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective, Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book... Læs mere
This text attempts to present the Book of Leviticus as more than a collection of religious legalities, and reviews it from an anthropological perspective. It argues that it is not the narrow theology of a crabbed, inward-turning, priestly culture but a philosophical achievement.
Who is Israel? Who were the priestly authors of the Pentateuch? In this anthropological reading of the Bible by a world-renowned scholar, Mary Douglas... Læs mere
Durational Images: Time and Images after the European Ice Age explores images from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age of Atlantic and Northern Europe to reconsider their ontological attributes as tools for navigating time.
Durational Images: Time and Images after the European Ice Age explores images from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age of Atlantic and Northern Europe to reconsider their ontological attributes as tools for navigating time.
Introductory guide to human and primate evolution, combining zooarchaeology and palaeontology with ground-breaking science to reveal the latest insights in our shared heritage.
Introductory guide to human and primate evolution, combining zooarchaeology and palaeontology with ground-breaking science to reveal the latest insights in our shared heritage.
What makes Civilisation? is an overview of the history of Law and Western civilisation from the Mycenaeans to today - over 3000 years
This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them.
The book shows how the Anthropocene and artificial intelligence, fields that have come to define the early decades of the twenty-first century, have mediated practices of violence and transformed how violence is realised, requiring a reworkng of the concept.