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For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different -- and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them...
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A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems.
Human are the only mammals to walk on two rather than four legs, a locomotion known as bipedalism. This has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult; our running speed is much slower than that of other animals; and we suffer ailments...
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What happens after death? That was a big question for ancient Egyptians. They believed that a person needed his or her body in death as much as in life. So they did all they could to preserve and protect the body. For them, preparing for life after death was an important part of life! Learn about the science behind mummification with this book created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This Smithsonian Informational Text builds students'...
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual...
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A Christian evangelical preacher during the early 1700's, during the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards is considered one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. His polemic work "Freedom of the Will" refutes the notion that humans have complete free will over the choices they make. Instead, Edwards claims that will is driven by human desire. In Edwards' beliefs, people are sinners at heart. They do not naturally follow...
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La educación es más que enseñar y aprender, y la antropología es más que realizar estudios sobre la vida de otras personas. Aquí, Tim Ingold propone que ambas, la antropología y la educación, son formas de estudiar y de llevar la vida, con otros. Este provocador libro transciende la exploración sobre la interfaz entre las disciplinas de la antropología y la educación para afirmar su fundamental equivalencia. La educación, sostiene, no...
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Fernando Eiras Sotoca no es de esas personas que se echan una novia tailandesa por internet y se marchan a Tailandia a conocerla. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hizo. De su experiencia surge este libro que es, a partes iguales, un relato de su descubrimiento del país y una crónica de su relación amorosa.
Su descubrimiento de Tailandia, además de la historia, cultura y gastronomía, tiene más que ver con el regateo del precio de los tuk-tuks,...
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There's always a story behind the story, but the keenest observers have to break through the surface to reach it. This remarkable book reveals the hidden meaning behind familiar images and words, from the origins of Santa Claus and the meaning of Cinderella's name to the metaphoric significance of the unicorn and the fleur-de-lys. A prominent authority on symbols, author Harold Bayley spent years gathering and compiling the contents of this volume....
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Riva Kastoryano is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and teaches at the Institute for Political Science, both in Paris. The author of several books in French, her work has focused on community formation and the construction of collective identities in different political settings.
Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis,...
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Transporte y producción artesanal en los albores del mundo olmeca es un libro en el que se presentan los vestigios arqueológicos que fueron hallados en el frente Malpica U como punto de partida para analizar la relación entre el transporte y la especialización artesanal y su papel en el desarrollo cultural de la capital olmeca de San Lorenzo durante el periodo Preclásico inferior. Inicia con un panorama general de la Isla de San Lorenzo con énfasis...
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Rat Race Removal Everyone knows the "society" we live in is in deep trouble. This will only get worse, until we DO something. Here you will find a primer on taking back your life, the emancipation of working people (the "middle class"), and finally, our return to Eden. The present mess has been called the "human condition", but it is not natural to humans. It is the result of 10,000 years of damage. Late Capitalism, the present form of economic slavery,...
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El libro aporta un conocimiento sustantivo sobre la evolución de las estructuras de poder de tres municipios. Se trata de un trabajo minucioso, bien documentado, finamente analizado, que nos evita las fáciles generalizaciones que suelen hacerse a menudo cuando no se tiene la cantidad y calidad de datos que nos permite ver las diferencias dentro de patrones comunes. Por otro lado, el material presentado es de tal calidad que nos incita a buscar comparaciones...
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"Co-Winner of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2004 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003" Hugh Raffles is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows...
20) Ils viennent pour travailler: Enquête ethnographique parmi les ouvriers agricoles migrants au Québec
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Chaque année, le Québec recrute à l'international des milliers de travailleurs par l'entremise de programmes de migration temporaire pour faire face à la pénurie de main-d'œuvre dans le secteur agricole. Le présent ouvrage dépeint l'expérience de vie et de travail de ces ouvriers migrants.
Son auteur s'est infiltré, en tant qu'employé, dans plusieurs entreprises agraires de la province o il a travaillé un été durant, participant aux...
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