This book describes life in a small hunting community in Northwest Greenland.
Il volume comprende una serie di contributi relativi alle produzioni artigianali dell’antica città di Kyme eolica (Turchia), che la Curatrice ha riunito con lo scopo di indagare, attraverso la loro circolazione, i rapporti della metropoli eolica con altre aree dell’Egeo e del Mediterraneo antico.
After theoretically framing the subject of money, starting from the Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel and the most recent contributions about sociology of money, the volume proposes a framework of study based on practice theory, with the aim of answering two questions of deep sociological and methodological interest: what money really is and how it is studied.
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue.
The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries.
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s.
Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years.
This research guide was first concieved to fulfill multiple needs of the research team of the Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) project at the Arizona State Museum. In performing research tasks, it became evident that reference material was scattered throughout scores of books and monographs.
In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times
Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India's north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation's capital. Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia