Archaeology books

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This Handbook covers non-invase techniques as well as digital technologies to study cultural heritage. Considering...  Read More >>

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Light plays a crucial role in mediating relationships between people, things, and spaces, yet lightscapes have been...  Read More >>

Ranging across space and time, this book brings together up-to-date research on the socio-cultural phenomenon of...  Read More >>

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention...  Read More >>

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With regard to the rigid caste hierarchy in South Indian Society, the book analyses the maintenance of egalitarian...  Read More >>

This work captures the heterogeneous views on transplantation and brain death as a means to treat end stage organ...  Read More >>

This edited volume depicts how young people create and imagine their future after having obtained a university degree....  Read More >>

Mistrust is usually treated as an annoying absence and a societal failure. This book takes a step back and explores...  Read More >>

This ethnography describes negotiations of prestige and power among EU civil servants in Brussels. It shows how...  Read More >>

Blogging in Beirut frames blogging as social field and analyses the production practices and publicness of blogging...  Read More >>

This study stands out in its unique approach integrating the voices of a very broad range of actors debating prior...  Read More >>

What is the meaning of marriage when only few marry? This book tells the entwined stories of class formation and...  Read More >>

Introducing the perspective of »meandering lives« to approach being young and the functioning of the state in Guinea....  Read More >>

How being a parent in the field shapes ethnographic knowledge production?  Read More >>

»Being Afrobolivian« is as much a matter of invoking territorial roots and indigeneity as of invoking diasporic...  Read More >>

Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet societies like...  Read More >>

Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Near East in the period following...  Read More >>

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The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro,...  Read More >>

The 'Manx Crosses', Scandinavian-style gravestones from the Isle of Man, are a unique collection of stone monuments...  Read More >>

The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include...  Read More >>

The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary...  Read More >>