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The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal, 1984-2021

The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal (RAS) is one of KwaZulu-Natal's oldest and best-known institutitions. This volume provides a detai...

The Wake of the Whale - Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic

Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt w...

Technology's Child - Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up

"Davis addresses the "screen time" debate by recognizing that children's experiences of technology and social relationships are qualitati...

Remo - The Autobiography of Remo Fernandes

"Remo: a soundtrack for the autobiography": pages 483-485.

Funerals in Africa - Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West dea...

13th International Council of Archaeozoology Conference, 2018 - Archaeological, biological and historical approaches in archaeozoological research

This volume collects 10 papers presented at the 13th ICAZ International conference comprising of research from wide-ranging geographical ...

The Limbic System

107 with treatments that affect the arousal of the animals is also implied on the basis of the behavioral changes induced in the lesioned...

Power Through Discourse

This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as ...

"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"

"On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project ...

Jennifer Lopez - A Biography

One of Hollywood's first openly Latin stars, Jennifer Lopez has held fast to her New York Bronx roots, while rising above them to become ...

Artifak - Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around va...

Experimental Collaborations - Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into...

African Political Systems

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a...

Jukeboxes - An American Social History

This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to ...

The Politics of Fandom - Conflicts That Divide Communities

Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmon...

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology - Methodological Innovation and Social Benefit

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) and opens up...

Proverbs - A Handbook

Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. W...

Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure - A Handbook

Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imaginatio...

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s

The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the Christian churches it was a time of innovation, from the 'new theology' and '...

Marketing Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2001. Successful international marketing requires the development and implementation of marketing strat...

Digital Death - Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to ...

The Book of Halloween

The Book of Halloween (1919) gives the reader an account of the origin and history of Halloween and how it absorbed customs belonging to ...

Atlantis and Lemuria

So tickt Deutschland / How Germany Ticks

Deutschland und Europa stecken in einer Zeiten-Wende. Von Krieg und Klimawandel über Homeoffice und Handelspolitik bis hin zu Flüchtlings...

Seduction - Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy

Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can culti...

Betting on Famine - Why the World Still Goes Hungry

"Originally published in France as Destruction massive: Geopolitique de la faim by Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2011"--Title page verso.

Senses of the Future - Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the f...

The Anthropology of the Future

A path-breaking account of how to analyse the future anthropologically, this book presents new questions and methods for studying the sub...

Holbraad & Pedersen, The Ontological Turn - An Anthropological Exposition

This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary so...

The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record.

Heroines - Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery....

Practicing Archaeology - An Introduction to Cultural Resources Archaeology

This book is an excellent reference tool for consulting firms, contractors, graduate students, and others who need to know the nuts and b...

Health Communism

In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism a...

What Would the Aunties Say? - A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life

In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brow...

European Civil Society and International Development Aid - Organisational Incentives and NGO Advocacy

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union ...

Invitation to a Banquet - The Story of Chinese Food

'A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force' Claudia Roden'Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world's best writers on Chinese food'...

Modern Greek Lessons - A Primer in Historical Constructivism

Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a cent...

Faster Than A Cannonball - 1995 and All That

Part oral history, part narrative pop culture, part celebration of the music of 1995

Apocalypse Ready - The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention

An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn ...

More. Numbers. Every. Day. - How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It's Time to Set Ourselves Free

Two quirky economists explain how a 'numberdemic' is taking over lives - and what we can do about it

Ravenous - How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

The food system no longer serves us: it's killing us. Here's why we should be hungry for change

The Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief in Contemporary Contexts

This volume presents the leading research in child and adolescent grief from a diverse and global perspective, focusing on the systemic, ...

Narrative Power - The Struggle for Human Value

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing b...

The Jolliest Bunch - Unhinged Holiday Stories

"For many families, the holiday season is--in a word--unhinged. In no family is that more true than in Danny Pellegrino's, beloved podcas...

The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values

A wide-ranging investigation into the concept of the self as different religions contributed to our evolving sense of it, following ideas...

Cultural Analytics

A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data...

Improving Survey Questions - Design and Evaluation

What is a good question? Although there are several potential sources for error in survey data, the validity of surveys is dependent upon...

The Constitutional Convention - Its History, Powers and Modes of Proceeding

The Constitutional Convention - Its History, Powers and Modes of Proceeding is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...

Shock Therapy - Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connecti...

Erotic Islands - Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean

In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds th...

Long Live the Queen - 23 Rules for Living from Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

For the first time, step behind palace doors to unlock the little-known secrets behind the Queen's remarkable self-preservation and conti...

Oxford and Cambridge - Their Colleges, Memories and Associations

Oxford and Cambridge - Their Colleges, Memories and Associations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. H...

Wheat Culture - How to Double the Yield and Increase the Profits. Third Edition

Wheat Culture - How to Double the Yield and Increase the Profits. Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edi...

Social England - A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners from the earliest times to the present day by Various Writers - Vol. 4

Social England - A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Man...

Hawaiian Legends

"Mr. Rice's theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Ca...

Japanese Horror Culture - Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games

This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, i...

Eating Together - Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker cent...

Digital Ethnography - Principles and Practice

Providing readers with the introduction to doing research into digital cultures and technologies, this book considers the methodological,...

Doing Data Science in R - An Introduction for Social Scientists

This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using data science tools and statistical method...

Happiness - Ten Years of n+1

The first anthology of America's foremost intellectual magazine. n+1 appeared in the fall of 2004, the brainchild of a group of writers w...