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Product Description: Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society...read more
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9781405179010 | Blackwell Pub, June 23, 2008, cover price $127.95
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9781444338782 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, January 11, 2011), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.
Miscellaneous:
9781444302721 | Blackwell Pub, February 10, 2009, cover price $99.95
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9780199298679 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 9, 2007, cover price $175.00
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9780199572267 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 18, 2009, cover price $56.00
Product Description: This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work...read more
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9780199262533 | Clarendon Pr, June 2, 2005, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.
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9780199228089 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 18, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.
This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives.The authors reflect on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, and how far the structuring of social time is a human universal. They also consider whether anthropology itself has been so oriented to the present it has still to develop ways of dealing with temporality.
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9781845200459 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 2, 2005, cover price $120.95 | About this edition: This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives.
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9781845200749 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 3, 2006, cover price $37.95
Product Description: Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole...read more
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9780199263332 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably.
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9780199263349 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 10, 2005, cover price $93.00 | About this edition: Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably.
Product Description: Governance everywhere is concerned with spatial relationships. Modern states "map" local communities, making them legible for the purposes of control. Ethiopia has gone through several stages of "mapping" in its imperial, revolutionary, and postrevolutionary phases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780821414477 | Ohio Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This new volume examines similar themes to those in "The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia", taking the story forward through the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution of 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, and then into the current period which has been marked by moves towards local democracy and political devolution.
9780852554562, titled "Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After" | James Currey Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $55.01
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9780821414484 | Ohio Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Governance everywhere is concerned with spatial relationships.
9780852554555, titled "Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After" | James Currey Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: This new volume examines the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution of 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, and then into the current period which has been marked by moves towards local democracy and political devolution.
Product Description: The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative methodologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781571817990 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks.
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9781571818003 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks.
Product Description: This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border. James focuses particularly on enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunter's world-view, how alien religious discourse has affected the Uduk in the course of the region's political history, and the rise of a new diviners' movement based upon the oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198234036 | Clarendon Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border.
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9780198234166 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 9, 2000, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking study explores the notions of person, and the foundations of bodily and moral experience among the Uduk-speaking people of the Sudan-Ethiopian border.
Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased noticeably as witnessed by several reassessments of its relevance to current social theory. This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current re-evaluation of his ideas in continental Europe. Themes include the post-structuralist appraisal of "exchange", the anthropology of the body, practical techniques, gesture systems, the notions of substance, materiality, and the social person. There are fresh insights into comparative politics and history, modern forms of charity, and new readings of some political and historical aspects of Mauss's work that bear on the analysis of regions such as Africa and the Middle East, relatively neglected by the Durkheimian school and by structuralism. This volume is a timely tribute to mark the centenary of Mauss' early work and confirms the continuing relevance of his ideas. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9781571817037 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $90.00
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9781571817051 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines.
Product Description: Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast...read more
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9780904180459 | Hakluyt Society, October 1, 1996, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century.
Product Description: Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity...read more
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9780415107907 | Routledge, September 1, 1995, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity.
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9780415107914 | Routledge, September 1, 1995, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity.
Product Description: This volume explores the ways in which Christianity has been experienced, understood, and expressed by mostly non-western people. It is interested in its vernacular express, seeking to understand the tensions between belief and practice that have been inherent in Christianity since the beginning...read more
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9780936508238 | Lilian Barber Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: This volume explores the ways in which Christianity has been experienced, understood, and expressed by mostly non-western people.
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9780198231943 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $70.00 | also contains College Algebra
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9780200721028 | Transatlantic Arts, June 1, 1974, cover price $10.00
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