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Measuring the master race : physical anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
Measuring the Master Race by Kyllingstad,which explores the various theories and debates held by Norwegian anthropologists and eugenicists on the concept of a superior Nordic race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is an important contribution to [Physical anthropology's history] research . . . Measuring the Master Race, the first monograph to open up Norwegian anthropology to the Engli…
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- 9781909254565
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- xxii, 251p.
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- 599.909481 KYL m
The theatre of Shelley
This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses performanc…
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- 9781906924324
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- xiv, 289 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 822.709 MUL t
Debating humanity : towards a philosophical sociology
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit a…
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- 9781316416303
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- vii, 262p. : ill.
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- 128 CHE d
Toward shared Research: participatory and integrative approach in researching…
Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments. The book is addressed to researchers, f…
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- 9783839451502
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- 186p.: ill.
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- 630.967 TOW t
Classic concepts in anthropology
Valerio Valeri ; [edited by] Rupert Stasch, Giovanni da Col.
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- 9780990505082
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- pages cm
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- Special collections in ethnographic theory; series
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- 301 VAL c
New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neo…
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- 9781760460952
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- xx, 384p. : ill.
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- Terra australis 45
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- 959.01 NEW n
The behavioral ecology of the Tibetan macaque
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which had never been reported on systematically. Dedicated to this exceptional Old World monkey, this book makes the work of Chinese primatologists on the social behavior, cooperati…
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- 9783030279202
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- xvi, 299p. : ill.
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- 599.82 BEH b
Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas
Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.
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- 9780816539253
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- X, 246 p.
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- 930.1 NAT n
A Sensory education:
A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters feature diverse sources of sensory education, including field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and fla…
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- 9781003084341
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- xx, 184p.: ill.
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- 152.1 HAR s
Ethnographies of waiting: doubt, hope and uncertainty
We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in m…
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- 9781000183764
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- xv, 212p.: ill.
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- 305.8 ETH e
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