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Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

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Marianne Sommer

The Diagrammatics of 'Race'

This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth cen…

Marianne Sommer

The Diagrammatics of 'Race'

This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth cen…

Amphibious Anthropologies

Muddying the divide between land and water This interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amp…

Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Maria A. Robinson-Smith

Revivalism

Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents and overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and…

Paul Hansen

Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Lijun Zhang

Living in Heritage

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO World Her…

Pedro A. López García, Denisse L. Argote, Manuel A. Torres-García

Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials

This Element highlights the archaeology of methods developed in chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics.

Andrea Behrends

Lifeworlds in Crisis

Based on two decades of fieldwork, an anthropologist's revealing exploration of conflict, displacement and cooperation at the margins of the state.

Webb Keane

Animals, Robots, Gods

A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. An…

Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T L Taylor

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyond Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers…

Gustavo G. Politis, Luis A. Borrero

The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia

"In this book, Gustavo Politis and Luis Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene u…

Paul Hansen

Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Wonder in South Asia

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Nicoletta Momigliano

Aegeomania

"This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material cultur…

Jonathan Marks

Understanding Human Diversity

"... looks at scientific realities and pseudoscientific myths about the patterns of diversity in our species, challenging common misconceptions about genetics, race, and evolution and their role in shapin…

Kelly Alexander

Truffles and Trash

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redi…

Jing Xu

'Unruly' Children

Explore childhood morality in martial law era Taiwan. Discover how children's active learning shapes morality and parental dynamics.