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Books by lecturers running workshops at last year’s London Anthropology
Buy Now- Avebury: Biography of a Landscape
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This book concerns itself with the World heritage site of the Avebury stone circle and its surrounding landscape.
Buy Now- Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
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The emergence of human culture is generally traced to the development of a social order in which males hunted large game animals and females had access to the meat. This book presents a new theory of how this culture originated.
Buy Now- Highland Homecomings: Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora
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The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, "Highland Homecomings" examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.
Buy Now- Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
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Homo Britannicus tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps to the present day. Drawing on all the latest evidence and techniques of investigation, Chris Stringer describes times when Britain was so tropical that man lived alongside hippos and sabre tooth tiger.
Buy Now- Pacific Pattern
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Lavishly illustrated throughout with a rare combination of contemporary, archival and museum images, Pacific Pattern takes us on a spectacular journey through the history of the Pacific and the myriad ways in which its peoples weave, bind, knit, plait, rub and stamp patterns of astonishing creativity.
Buy Now- Sport, Identity and Ethnicity
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Until now sport has received little serious attention from anthropologists. In this first general book on the anthropology of sport, the contributors look at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities.
