Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, Method and Praxis
Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly
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The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way...
Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael: A Cultural History of a Biblical Story
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In the Hebrew Bible, Judges 4-5 tells the lurid story of the heroic figure of Jael, a woman who...
Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution
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Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its...
New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning
Magdolna Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai
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This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five...
African Film Cultures: In the Context of Socio-Political Factors
Winston Mano, Barbara Knorpp and Anuli Agina
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The growing body of films in and around Africa, and the seemingly incongruent growth in African film...
Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture
Marion Hourdequin and David G. Havlick
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Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and...
Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics
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Shifting cultivation is the predominant system of arable farming in the humid and sub-humid tropics,...
DIY Utopia: Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible
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At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have...