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Cultural Representation in Native America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An edited volume that tackles the contemporary issues facing Native Americans through community activism, politics, economics, and legislation.
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Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents an inquiry into the questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology.... Læs mere
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Public Art: Thinking Museums Differently (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
By considering the museum itself as art, rather than as a receptacle, Hein's Public Art: Thinking Museums Differently argues for an improved understanding of the role museums play in shaping public discourse.
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Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World: An Anthropological Odyssey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tackles the question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, as well as on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners.
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Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What makes the 'self'? How is it created, defined, and transformed? Arthur Asa Berger's fascinating, educational whodunit novel unravels the mysteries of cultural studies theory, and more specifically, the complexities of postmodernism and identity.
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Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
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Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using equality as a measure for policy, this book demonstrates how taking equality seriously changes how our economies could function to provide wellbeing both... Læs mere
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Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From different geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, this book demonstrates the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be.
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Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Including evidence from cognitive science, this book shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence.
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Magic, Miracles, and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays which show how findings from cognitive science can offer directions to debates in religion. It demonstrates how knowledge of... Læs mere
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Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence do not typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But Harvey Whitehouse's 'modes of religiosity' theory has been attracting many scholars.
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Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed... Læs mere
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