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This publication reveals intricate relationships between the Viking Age and its pasts. The book explores previous studie......more

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The history and groundbreaking discovery of a 1559 shipwreck and an ill-fated early Florida colony Honorable Mention, No......more

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Visions of Prisons is an inquiry into the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies. W......more

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This comprehensive textbook throws light on the major ideas and themes associated with Community Psychology, its develop......more

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This book explores the post-harem lives of Ottoman palace women who--unlike valide sultans, mothers of princes (şehzades......more

A major contribution to O’odham studies and Southwest history, Martínez offers a new perspective on the life and knowled......more

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Focusing on the Chavez Cave collections in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Collaboration in Practice presents a study of the par......more

In this work, scholar Gabriela Raquel Ríos considers how Latina/o/x communities engage in the ethical reclamation of ind......more

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Floating Power considers the role of energy production on an international scale, challenging the idea that new infrastr......more

In the Danube Delta, on the border between Romania and Ukraine, a shrinking community of Russian Old Believers--Orthodox......more

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The volume presents a set of keywords and concepts anchored in the region’s languages and its vast cultural landscape. I......more

This book studies the role, representation, and materiality of weapons, focusing on what they mean to communities and in......more

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An anthropological account of how religion helps sustain bonds within transnational families. How do faith, family, and ......more

The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historica......more

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A global, interdisciplinary dive into superheroes and their cultural power across media. Offering a global and interdisc......more

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The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recogniz......more

The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia and......more

Despite the wealth of material remains uncovered by archaeology, our understanding of how people in the past lived, work......more

The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and e......more

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Cobalt: named after goblins, allotted to gods. Cobalt and its compounds have had a long and important part to play in hi......more

On the study of prearchitecture that took place after WWII. Can there ever be a world before architecture? Is there an a......more

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, method......more

Discussion and case studies of ethical best practices for forensic anthropology Forensic anthropology involves the sensi......more

Award-winning Dene activist and writer Katlia teaches us Indigenous ways to protect Mother Earth from destruction. The D......more

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In the shadow of Mexico’s ongoing human rights crisis, Digging for Hope offers a powerful feminist ethnography of resist......more

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Challenges simplified discourses that describe Chinese as the next global language. This book analyzes the multilingual ......more

Unpacking the affective toll of constant connectivity, this book reframes digital exhaustion as a defining experience of......more

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopolitics From misty mountain oolongs to th......more

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lan......more

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This book brings together illuminating interviews with the most influential scholars who have shaped the interdisciplina......more

Ambiguous Inclusion examines how migrants and state officials in Primorskii krai - Russia’s Far Eastern border with Chin......more

Justice at the Boundaries offers a powerful ethnographic account of the transformative potential and structural limitati......more

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