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Agency in Ancient Writing
"Through the lens of agency, contributors successfully rethink the nature of ancient texts. In so doing they ably demonstrate that when a new theoretical orientation is applied to a taken-for-granted category of data it invigorates both the data and our understanding of the pa...
(2012)
Human No More
by Neil L. Whit... and Michael Wesch
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of plac...
(2012)
Fanning the Sacred Flame
by Matthew A. Boxt and Brian D. Dillon
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnoh...
(2012)
Neoliberalism and Commod...
by Thomas Weaver, James B. Gre..., William L. A..., and Anne Brownin...
_Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico_ details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how un...
(2012)
Parallel Worlds
by Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. C...
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period...
(2012)
Culture and Customs of Mali
Touching on everything from its rich musical heritage to its varied cultural traditions, this is a thorough and accessible introduction to the contemporary lives of the different peoples who call Mali their home.
(2012)
Faces around the World
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.
(2012)
The Anthropological Stud...
Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to...
(2011)
Indigenous Dance and Dan...
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices. Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditi...
(2011)
The Wedding Night: A Pop...
A Popular History
by Chris Filstrup and Jane Merrill
Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. _The Wedding Night: A Popular History_ is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "be...
(2011)
Forjando Patria
by Manuel Gamio... and Fernando Arm...
Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico, Manuel Gamio originally published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national anthropology of Mexico summarizes the key issues in the development of anthropology as an academic discipli...
(2011)
Crossroads of Culture
by Chip Colwell..., Stephen Nash..., and Steven Holen...
The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects...
(2011)
Adventures In Eating
by Clare Sammel... and Helen Haines...
Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic an...
(2011)
Carrying the Word
In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways...
(2011)
Coffee and Community
We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and con...
(2011)
Anthropology of Labor Un...
by Karaleah Rei... and Paul Durrenb...
The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses glob...
(2011)
A Handbook of Practical ...
by William I. Wei, Stephen W.K...., and Anthony Ng
A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo's The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the growth of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. It helped launch the international stardom of Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat, who plays a disllusioned hitman taking h...
(2010)
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak'...
PTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong's most prolific and commercially successful directors. Johnnie To Kei-fung has been called "the poet of post-1997 and the economic savior of the Hong Kong film industry" for an extraordinary range of films produce...
(2010)
Corporate Governance and...
by Jing LENG
Beginning first as a case study of Feng Xiaogang, this book explores Chinese film history since the early 1990s in terms of changes of the Communist Party's film policy, industry reforms, the official promotion of Main Melody films and the emergence and growth of popular cinem...
(2010)
TV Drama in China
by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoyun Bai
自二十世紀八十年代起，"中日韓電影" 逐漸成為一個舉世矚目的 "標籤"。偶然，它又會換上 "東亞電影" 的外衣，馳騁於五湖四海。這個不成文的 "共同體" 已成為探討東亞歷史、文化和社會現狀的重要素材。中日韓電影是各地文化的一面鏡子，反映著當地人民有別於他人的歷史記憶和感情印記。有見及此，本書希望透過深入的研究及辯證，探討中日韓電影各自的本土特質。特別是通過分析各地電影人對暴力、愛情、兩性和世代交替這四項備受關注的議題所作出的不同詮釋，窺探他們在殖民、去殖民與現代化等方面的歷史經驗，從而發掘出一種能夠真正欣賞中日韓電影的跨時代、跨國界及跨學科的宏觀視...
(2010)
