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Cambridge University Press The Bioarchaeology of Children Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology 50 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 50
Book SynopsisThis book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical concepts of their analysis. Non-adult skeletons provide a wealth of information on the physical and social life of the child from their growth, diet and age at death, to factors that expose them to trauma and disease at different stages of their lives. This book covers the factors that affect non-adult skeletal preservation; the assessment of their age, sex and ancestry; growth and development; infant and child mortality including infanticide; weaning ages and disease of dietary deficiency; skeletal pathology; personal identification and exposure to trauma from birth injuries, accidents and child abuse; providing insights for graduates and postgraduates in osteology, palaeopathology and forensic anthropology.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… focused, readable, and informative. … well-written and clearly presented … it has certainly earned its place in the well stocked library.' American Journal of Human BiologyReview of the hardback: 'The careful organisation is matched by the clarity of the writing and the author's skill in weaving together the multiple threads of evidence used in the contextualised study of children's remains from archaeological and forensic contexts. Discussion of the importance of the bioarchaeology of children to advances in forensic anthropology is a notable and distinctive aspect of the volume.' International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyReview of the hardback: '… well-written, clearly presented … a very good resource and starting point for anyone working on non-adult skeletal remains or interested in what bioarchaeology has to offer to the study of childhood in the past.' Childhood in the PastReview of the hardback: 'Anybody working in the field or studying biological and forensic anthropology and also archaeologists, will find this book a very welcome addition to their basic library.' Journal of Biosocial ScienceTable of Contents1. The bioarchaeology of children; 2. Fragile bones and shallow graves; 3. Age, sex and ancestry; 4. Growth and development; 5. Difficult births, precarious lives; 6. Little waifs: weaning and dietary stress; 7. Non-adult skeletal pathology; 8. Trauma in the child; 9. Future directions; References.
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Cambridge University Press LeviStrauss Anthropology and Aesthetics 85 Ideas in Context Series Number 85
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Cambridge University Press Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis in Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Compliance Ideologies
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Cambridge University Press The Scientific Study of Mummies
Book SynopsisMummies are the preserved remains of human or animal bodies. They may be preserved naturally or through human intervention, and their careful study can give us important insights into the past. This important 2003 reference work shows how mummification happens, explores mummies worldwide, and gives guidance into their research.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this book should be required reading for any serious researcher on the sometimes gory but always fascinating subject of mummies and what they can teach us about human beliefs and behaviour.' Sarah Wiseman, NatureReview of the hardback: '… a classic work …'. The LancetReview of the hardback: '… will become the standard reference text for bioarchaeological studies of mummified human remains and it is unlikely that the book will be superseded in this role for a very long time.' International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyReview of the hardback: '… an indispensable research tool for students of ancient populations and palaeophathology … a work of immense scholarship, superbly documents and exhaustively referenced.' The Times Higher Education SupplementReview of the hardback: 'Aufderheide's book, with its careful descriptions, beautiful illustrations, clear facts and timely reflections of a dedicated author, is in itself a statement on mummy studies and how they should be carried out for the benefit of all.' Annals of Human BiologyReview of the hardback: 'This work, a veritable tour de force of mummy studies, will establish itself as the classic volume on mummies. The work is, therefore, essential reading for palaeopathologists, osteologists, archaeologists and mummy specialists worldwide.' Journal of Biosocial SciencesReview of the hardback: '… a timely addition to the literature, providing a basic text for training programmes in this field and also a research reference source. … the range and depth of the author's scholarship and firsthand contributions to mummy science ensure that this thought-provoking book, with its wealth of facts, research citations and suggestions for future developments, will remain a classic in this field.' Rosalie David, University of Manchester'Considering that [this] book is over 600 pages long and packed full of high-quality black-and-white images, I feel it is good value. It is a veritable encyclopaedia of all things mummy and covers everything from the history, purposes and techniques of anthropogenic mummification to the use of pulverised mummified human tissues as a medical drug … This book will be engrossing not only to anyone with a passing interest in mummification and ancient history, but also to those curious about more recent events, as subjects covered include the embalming of Abraham Lincoln and the mummification of Eva Peron, Vladimir Lenin and the American Civil War horse, Comanche. It is highly recommended.' Bulletin of The Royal College of PathologistsTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. History of mummy studies; 2. Purpose of anthropogenic mummification; 3. Mechanisms of mummification; 4. The geography of mummies; 5. Soft tissue taphonomy; 6. Mummy study methodology; 7. Animal mummies; 8. Soft tissue paleopathology: diseases of the viscera; 9. The museology of mummies; 10. Use and abuse of mummies; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
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Cambridge University Press Human Senescence Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives 36 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press Fossil Primates 70 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 70
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Cambridge University Press Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
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Cambridge University Press The Good Communist
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Cambridge University Press Other Tribes Other Scribes
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Cambridge University Press History Evolution and the Concept of Culture
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Cambridge University Press On Becoming Human
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1981, On Becoming Human presents a unique theory of human origins, an original explanation of how early hominids evolved from their ape-like primate ancestors. Professor Nancy M. Tanner's book integrates the data on chimpanzee behaviour with the available information on early phases of human evolution. The result is a model by which we can more accurately reconstruct the lifeways of the early hominids and better understand the rapid transition from ape to early human. By an innovative use of conventional data and a fresh perspective on traditional anthropological approaches, Professor Tanner, in her first book, has developed a powerful new theory of human origins by which we can understand the actual dynamics of becoming human.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Darwin and the descent of 'man'; 2. Models in evolution; 3. African apes and human evolution; 4. Chimpanzees as a model of the ancestral population: locomotion, tools and diet; 5. Chimpanzees as a model of the ancestral population: social organisation and interaction; 6. Chimpanzees as a model of ancestral population: mental capacities, communication and sociation - bases for the evolution of the capacity for culture; 7. The transition to Australopithecus: natural and sexual selection in human origins; 8. Evidence on the transition: what can the earliest hominid fossils reveal about the ancestral population and the transition?; 9. Gathering and the australopithecine way of life; 10. Early hominid lifeways: the critical role of an interpretive framework; 11. Conclusion: becoming human; Bibliography; Acknowledgements and bibliography for illustrations; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology
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Cambridge University Press The Anthropological Circle Symbol Function History 37 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press The Character of Kinship
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Cambridge University Press The Nayars Today
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Cambridge University Press The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597 1972
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Cambridge University Press Anthropological Research The Structure of Inquiry
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Cambridge University Press Market and Society
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Cambridge University Press Succession to High Office 4 Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Ambiguous Ethnicity
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Cambridge University Press Deadly Words Witchcraft in the Bocage Msh
Book SynopsisThis 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.Table of ContentsPart I. There Must Be a Subject; Section 1. The Way Things Are Said: 1. The mirror-image of an academic; 2. Words spoken with insistence; 3. When words wage war; Section 2. Between 'Caught' and Catching: 1. Those who haven't been caught can't talk about it; 2. A name added to a position; 3. Taking one's distances from whom (or what)?; Section 3. When the Text Has its Own Foreword; Part II. The Realm of Secrecy; Section 4. Someone Must Be Credulous; Section 5. Tempted By the Impossible; Section 6. The Less One Talks, The Less One Is Caught; Part III. Telling It All; Section 7. If You Could Do Something: 1. A bewitched in hospital; 2. She a magician?; 3. The misunderstanding; 4. Impotent against impotence; Section 8. The Omnipotent Witch: 1. The imperishable bastard; 2. Speaking; 3. Touching; 4. Looking; 5. A death at the crossroads; 6. Ex post facto; Section 9. Taking Over: 1. Inexplicable misfortunes; 2. The other witch; Section 10. To Return Evil for Evil: 1. Madame Marie from Alençon; 2. Madame Marie from Izé; 3. If you feel capable; Section 11. Mid-way Speculations: 1. Concepts and presuppositions; 2. Attack by witchcraft and its warding off; Appendices; References.
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Cambridge University Press Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France
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Cambridge University Press Social Facts and Fabrications
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Cambridge University Press Eight Hours for What We Will
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Cambridge University Press Genetic Variation Human Disease Principles and Evolutionary Approaches 11
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Cambridge University Press The Fall of Natural Man The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
Book SynopsisThis book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more sophisticated relativist approach. Anthony Pagden uses new methods of technical analysis, already developed in philosophy and anthropology, to examine four groups of writers who analysed Indian culture: the sixteenth-century theologian, Francisco de Vitoria, and his followers; the 'champion of the Indians' Bartolomà de Las Casas; and the Jesuit historians Josà de Acosta and Joseph FranÃois Lafitau. Dr Pagden explains the sources for their theories and how these conditioned their observations. He also examines for the first time the key terms in each writer's vocabulary - words such as 'barbarian' and 'civil' - and the assumptions that lay beneath them.Trade Review'Pagden's subtle account … is a model for the history of anthropology altogether. It shows, too, how constant some of the subject's central conceptions have been over the succeeding four hundred years.' The London Review of Books' … in the subtlety of its analysis and the richness of its detail The Fall of Natural Man surpasses all previous writings on the subject in any language.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'The strength and novelty of the book consists in the seriousness with which Pagden reconstructs the classificatory theories of sixteenth-century Iberians and uses them to explain much of their writing on the Indians.' Political Studies'We must thank Anthony Pagden for having, in this erudite and well-written study, demonstrated in a definitive manner the importance of the ethnological contribution of sixteenth-century Spanish authors.' Revue historiqueTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The problem of recognition; 2. The image of the barbarian; 3. The theory of natural slavery; 4. From nature's slaves to nature's children; 5. The rhetorician and the theologians: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and his dialogue, Democrates secundus; 6. A programme for comparative ethnology (I); 7. A programme for comparative ethnology (II); 8. Joseph François Lafitau: comparative ethnology and the language of symbols; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reactionary Modernism Technology culture and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press By Means of Performance Intercultural Studies Of Theatre And Ritual
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society Studies in Literacy the Family Culture and the State
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Cambridge University Press Human Adult Odontometrics The Study of Variation in Adult Tooth Size 4 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Cognition in Practice Mind Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life Learning in Doing
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Cambridge University Press Day of Shining Red 27 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press Continent of HunterGatherers
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Cambridge University Press Biological Perspectives on Human Pigmentation 7 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press The Oriental the Ancient and the Primitive
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Cambridge University Press Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
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Cambridge University Press Arnold Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press WORLDS APART THE MARKET AND THE THEATER IN ANGLOAMERICAN THOUGHT 1550 1750 BY Agnew JeanChristopheAuthorPaperback on 10 1988
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Cambridge University Press Applications of Biological Anthropology to Human Affairs 8 Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Conversations in Colombia
Book SynopsisDrawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. In their view, the material practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior European fold conversations about the house.Trade Review'This book deserves to become recognized as the finest achievement so far in the field of economic anthropology: the sort of landmark volume which has become regrettably scarce in the expanded lists of this decade. Conversations in Columbia is a wonderful synthesis of oral investigations and literate scholarship which restores intellectual integrity to the field of economic anthropology and deserves to set its agenda for years to come.' Keith Hart, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Conversations; 2. The strength of the earth; 3. The house; 4. The base; 5. The advance and the increase; 6. Work for the house; 7. Remainders; 8. The house and the market; 9. Making savings; 10. From house to corps; Notes; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Representative Words Politics Literature and the American Language 17761865 60 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 60
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