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Have Indigenous plant knowledge at your fingertips with this gorgeously illustrated card deck from Leigh Joseph, an ethn......more

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Combining historical background with discussion of contemporary Native nations and their living cultures, this comprehen......more

Recent research and discoveries at a prominent Maya rainforest city This volume presents the most current research on th......more

Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it developed into the pree......more

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At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ’homo economicus’ an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest wh......more

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This book is the product of an endless individual and collective process of mourning. It departs from the author’s mourn......more

The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry p......more

This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, inclu......more

Addressing the topic of expertise in international cultural conservation, this book argues that the UNESCO World Heritag......more

Honouring the scholarship of Métis matriarchs While surveying the field of Indigenous studies, Laura Forsythe and Jennif......more

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This volume is a concise introduction to the critical theories of deconstruction and poststructuralism. It traces the em......more

An anthropological account of the experience of aging in the smartphone era in China. The current oldest generation in S......more

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?These are ancient lands, the birthplace of the first kingdoms of Europe . . .? Drawing from the collections of more tha......more

A study of how the intersection of gender and Islam develops and changes in a pilgrimage-tourism nexus as part of capita......more

A comprehensive view of quarrying activities from three key regions in North America. This exciting new addition to the ......more

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This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical......more

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This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind’s first cities for the purpose of strengthe......more

The cutting down of the tree in Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall in September 2023 caused widespread shock in Britain and ......more

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Growing Up Human reveals how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon experienced by all readers - childhood. Tr......more

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, B......more

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Making National Heroes is an ethnography on the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War i......more

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In Refusals and Reinventions, artist-scholar-organizer Daniel Coleman considers his critical trajectories and participat......more

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