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The myth of the eternal return
Cosmos and History
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18297-1
EAN 9780691182971
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates ...
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Three stones make a wall
The story of Archaeology
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things." Carter's fabulous discovery is ...
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- HAU, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-9905050-8-2
EAN 9780990505082
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22464-1
EAN 9780300224641
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17832-5
EAN 9780691178325
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices.In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 42,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-4602-6
EAN 9781474246026
Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn - seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste - Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-9861325-0-6
EAN 9780986132506
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the worlds most distinguished anthropologists'David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins'explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 345 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-47920-0
EAN 9780226479200
Beards they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today some New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars for facial hair ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35432-4
EAN 9780393354324
In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Photos.
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 36,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16640-7
EAN 9780691166407
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology--from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today. In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small ...
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Making Faces
The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 450 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72552-2
EAN 9780674725522
Humans possess the most expressive faces in the animal kingdom. Adam Wilkins presents evidence ranging from the fossil record to recent findings of genetics, molecular biology, and developmental biology to reconstruct the fascinating story of how the human face evolved. Beginning with the first vertebrate faces half a billion years ago and continuing to dramatic ...
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-7191-3
EAN 9781442271913
One of the most important relationships that human beings have with plants is changing our consciousness-consider the plants that give us coffee, tea, chocolate, and nicotine. Sacred Bliss challenges traditional attitudes about cannabis by tracing its essential role in the spiritual and curative traditions in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from ...
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The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years ...
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Testimonio de los dientes
Antropología dentaria de la transición neólitica hasta el presente
- Bellaterra, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 504 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-84-7290-790-4
EAN 9788472907904
La presente publicación agrupa, de forma monográfica, los estudios realizados por el Dr. Josep Ignasi Oms en torno a la población humana a partir del análisis e investigación sobre la estructura morfométrica y morfológica de la dentición. Puede resultar extraño que un arqueólogo presente este estudio de naturaleza antropológica, pero, conociendo al Dr. Oms y ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-932-0
EAN 9781846149320
Whether out of a desire for children, pleasure, money, power, driven by love, lust, revenge, self-discovery, or simply because it isn't allowed, our attitudes to sex and sexuality are forever changing. Through the centuries, religion, superstition and morality laws have impacted what is and isn't deemed acceptable, while technology and disease have redefined the limits ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
ISBN 978-0-9861325-9-9
EAN 9780986132599
Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship. A comprehensive and comparative history of words ...
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The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29312-0
EAN 9780520293120
'I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.' This inscription in Tutankhamens tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archeologist Robert Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42328-9
EAN 9780226423289
In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1981, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social ...
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A collection of ethnographies which explore how identity is changing as the anthropocene develops. Covers cases in the Philippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands and Afghanistan. Part of a number of books emerging from new wave of highly respected scholars, based upon the 'Overheating' project The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; ...
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