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Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

The Quintessence

Philippe Descola,

Politics of Worlding

The Politics of Worldling presents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable précis of some of the centra…

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Geographies of Difference, Indifference and Mis-difference

World-renowned scholar of human geography, development, and environmental change Antonio Ioris presents an original reconceptualisation of the notions of difference and indifference and their impacts on s…

The Falls Creek Rock Shelters

An important reanalysis of archaeological materials excavated and curated decades ago, with lessons for similar investigations in the future.

Amy Bogaard

From First Farmers to First Cities in Western Asia and Europe

The relationship between farming and the emergence cities is a key question in the archaeology of western Asia and Europe. In this study, Amy Bogaard explores how the earliest villages and cities were sus…

Kenneth Brophy

The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World

This book offers a timely roadmap for navigating the material and intangible legacies of prehistory with which we live today.Drawing on a series of global case studies, field observations and real-world s…

Victor D. Thompson, Carey J. Garland

The Sapelo Shell Rings

Inside the archaeology of Indigenous environmental stewardship on the ancient Georgia coastShell ring sites---curved mounds made from piles of oyster, clam, conch, and other shells---can be found across t…

Nancy Bonvillain

Language, Culture, and Communication

Language, Culture, and Communication introduces students to the topics and theories of the broad field of linguistic anthropology by examining the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It emphasizes…

Persis B. Clarkson

Caravan Trails of Tamentica

An anthropological and narrative exploration of ancient llama caravans and their associated geoglyphs in the Chilean Atacama DesertCaravan Trails of Tamentica is a vivid exploration of ancient Andean llam…

Daniel K Thompson

African Border Worlds

Every border is a world of stories, not just a line on a map or a political frontier. This book introduces readers to the worlds of African borderlands by following border-jumpers, asylum seekers, return …

Shane Greene

Homo Terminus

If the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of communism, ours is haunted by the specter of human extinction.The 6th mass extinction is unfolding within the global climate crisis. An uncontrolled …

Victor D. Thompson, Carey J. Garland

The Sapelo Shell Rings

Inside the archaeology of Indigenous environmental stewardship on the ancient Georgia coastShell ring sites---curved mounds made from piles of oyster, clam, conch, and other shells---can be found across t…

Nick Kawa

After the Flush

Looking beyond current sanitation models in the US to develop new ways of managing human waste as a resource.What happens when you flush the toilet? Where does the waste go?In this engagingly written ethn…

Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer

Shell Artefacts

Shells were an important product in the prehistoric and ancient worlds. Dating back to the Palaeolithic period, shells are among the earliest symbolic artefacts and are a key indicator of human cognitive …

Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography

Argues for the importance of including both offline and online communication and interactions in the study of any society with cyber connectivity, given the increased impact of digital communications on c…

James E. Siburt

How Narrative Shapes Culture and Society

This book analyzes how everyday storytelling operates as a subtle yet powerful mode of influence, shaping identity, belief systems, and leadership across diverse cultural contexts. Bridging literary theor…

Polly Schaafsma

Talking to the Rain

"An investigation into the rock imagery of the Jornada Mogollon of the Lower Chihuahuan Desert, expertly described by Polly Schaafsma and beautifully illustrated by the photos of Francois Gohier"…

Toby Wilkinson

A World Beneath the Sands - The Golden Age of Egyptology

From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atm…

Zoltán Glück

The Long War on Terror

This book places the present day Global War on Terror within a broader historical analysis of colonization and counterinsurgency. The social transformations of counterterrorism have deeply influenced both…