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85 results in Physical anthropology

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Masquerades in African Society

Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia

Interpreting the Body

Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City
  • Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy
  • Robert G. Hollands
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    25 January 2024
    Print publication:
    26 July 2023
  • A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such 'urban makeovers' lie serious problems such as widening inequalities and gentrification. Blending lively city case studies with broader theoretical debates, this book explores the opportunities for a more just and sustainable urban future.

Interpreting Contentious Memory
  • Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past
  • Edited by Thomas DeGloma, Janet Jacobs
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 June 2023
  • This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
  • Edited by Andrea Cossu, Jorge Fontdevila
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023
  • Written by experts in interpretive sociology, this volume examines semiotic models in a sociological context. Contributors offer case studies to demonstrate 'how to do things' with semiotics. Synthesizing a diverse and fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for understanding the connection between semiotics and sociology.

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households
  • Compromise, Conflict, Complicity
  • Kirstin Munro
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2023
  • Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this book sheds much-needed light on how sustainability-oriented households balance priorities and get things done in day-to-day life, offering crucial insights about eco-conscious living at an individual level.

The Unstoppable Human Species
  • The Emergence of Homo Sapiens in Prehistory
  • John J. Shea
  • Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023
  • In The Unstoppable Human Species John Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, biosphere-level, extinction threats. He explores how and why we humans owe our survival skills to our global geographic range, a diaspora that was achieved during prehistoric times. By developing and integrating a suite of Ancestral Survival Skills, humans overcame survival challenges better than other hominins, and settled in previously unoccupied habitats. But how did they do it? How did early humans endure long enough to become our ancestors? Shea places 'how did they survive?' questions front and center in prehistory. Using an explicitly scientific, comparative, and hypothesis-testing approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines much 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, Shea's volume offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. Moving beyond unproductive archaeological debates about prehistoric population movements, The Unstoppable Human Species generates new and interesting questions about human evolution.

A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
  • Edited by Luis I. Prádanos
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    17 January 2023
  • An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.

Decolonising State and Society in Uganda

Customs and Beliefs of the |xam
  • 2nd edition
  • Jeremy C. Hollmann
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    24 November 2023
    Print publication:
    01 November 2022
  • More than one hundred twenty-five years ago, a remarkable group of people came together in Cape Town to write down the language and beliefs of the |xam people, a Bushman group that once lived over much of South Africa. The immensely valuable work of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their |xam teachers not only preserved a language now no longer spoken, but also provided fascinating insights into |xam cosmology. First published in 2004, Customs and Beliefs of the |xam reproduces Dorothea Bleek's selection of |xam narratives from the well-known Bleek and Lloyd Collection that was originally published in the journal Bantu Studies during the 1930s. Collated and edited by Jeremy Hollman, the extracts include detailed notes on each of the narratives, as well as Bleek's 'sketch' of |xam grammar.

    This substantially revised second edition integrates new scholarship on the Bleek and Lloyd archive, and restores previously omitted material. The introduction to each narrative has been expanded to contextualise it within the archive as a whole and, where relevant, reference it to the Notebook of which it is a part. This includes meticulous cross-referencing with the Bleek and Lloyd Collection catalogue code and the Notebook number and line reference. Each of the texts has also been critically reassessed, with additional editorial notes and commentaries, in particular with respect to the |xam words themselves and the ways in which they have been translated. A synopsis of each narrative is provided in an appendix, with cross references to the Bleek and Lloyd notebooks.

Politics of the Gift
  • Towards a Convivial Society
  • Frank Adloff
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 June 2023
    Print publication:
    28 October 2022
  • Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in capitalism is broken.

Italian Courts and European Culture
  • Marcello Fantoni
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2023
    Print publication:
    10 October 2022
  • Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene. These courts were effervescent centers of cultural production. As such, they became a model for European monarchies who imported Italian courtly forma del vivere ('style of life') to legitimize their power and to define social status. This phenomenon included architecture and painting, theater and music, manners and aesthetics, and all the objects, behaviors and beliefs that contributed to homogenize European culture in the age of the Old Regime. It involved a hemorrhage of art and a continuous circulation of people, texts and symbols. The foundational material for this process was classicism and its purpose was political. This delineates a new geography and chronology of a truly European cultural history. It also provides the key traits for the European cultural identity.

Bordering Tibetan Languages
  • Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia
  • Edited by Gerald Roche, Gwendolyn Hyslop
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    24 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022
  • Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalaya. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalaya talk borders into existence, and also how those borders speak to them and their identities. These 'talking borders' exist in a world where state borders are contested, and which is being irrevocably transformed by rapid social and economic change. This book offers a new perspective on this dynamic region by centring language, and in doing so, also offers new ways of thinking about how borders and language influence each other.

Human Prehistory
  • Exploring the Past to Understand the Future
  • Deborah Barsky
  • Published online:
    20 August 2022
    Print publication:
    18 August 2022
  • This book provides a concise overview of human prehistory. It shows how an understanding of the distant past offers new perspectives on present-day challenges facing our species - and how we can build a sustainable future for all life on planet Earth. Deborah Barsky tells a fascinating story of the long-term evolution of human culture and provides up-to-date examples from the archaeological record to illustrate the different phases of human history. Barsky also presents a refreshing and original analysis about issues plaguing modern globalized society, such as racism, institutionalized religion, the digital revolution, human migrations, terrorism, and war. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Human Prehistory is aimed at an introductory-level audience. Students will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the interdisciplinary, scientific study of human prehistory, as well as the theoretical interpretations of human evolutionary processes that are used in contemporary archaeological practice. Definitions, tables, and illustrations accompany the text.

Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia
  • Edited by Viktória Gyönki, Andrea Maraschi
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    16 November 2022
    Print publication:
    04 July 2022
  • The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies. This book analyses the historical, legal, and literary sources of the region during the medieval period to explore different aspects of Scandinavian culture relating to food and drink: production, consumption (including feasts), trading (distribution), and the associated social rituals. Using new and innovative approaches, this collection of studies offers broad insights into a great variety of social practices and includes fresh information on not only social history but also traditional topics such as trade, commercial exchange, legal regulation, and political organisation. The book unites contributors from a variety of backgrounds, further enriching the content of a collection that promises to make a significant contribution to the state of current research.

Youth beyond the City
  • Thinking from the Margins
  • Edited by David Farrugia, Signe Ravn
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    15 June 2022
  • This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in rural and regional areas and city outskirts around the world. International experts investigate aspects of marginal spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and look at the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education.

Interpreting Religion
  • Making Sense of Religious Lives
  • Edited by Erin Johnston, Vikash Singh
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    31 May 2022
  • This collection brings together a diverse range of interpretivist perspectives to find fresh takes on the meanings of religion. Cutting across paradigms and traditions, experts from the UK, US, and India apply different approaches to engagement with beliefs and themes, including identity, ritual, and emotion.

Pokot Pastoralism
  • Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya
  • Hauke-Peter Vehrs
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    20 May 2022
  • Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.

The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020
  • Bones, Rumours and Spirits
  • Joost Fontein
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    18 March 2022
  • Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics.

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