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89 results in Physical anthropology

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Traces of the Distant Human Past
  • Understanding the Archaeology of our Origins
  • Edited by Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • Traces of the Distant Human Past offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeology. Emphasizing the importance of understanding early humans within their environmental context, the contributors to this volume propose a shift towards theoretical frameworks and ecological perspectives in archaeological research. They highlight the scarcity of well-preserved archaeological sites, making a strong case for high-resolution analyses and the need for new methodologies, including the use of artificial intelligence in taphonomy. By questioning the scientific rigor of current practices and advocating for hypothesis-driven research, this volume not only informs but also inspires a reevaluation of the approaches that can be applied to an interpretation of the evidence for human evolution in the archaeological record. It will be an essential resource for those interested in advancing the field and gaining a deeper understanding of human origins.

Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora
  • Material Culture, Language and Identity
  • Edited by Maria Yelenevskaya, Ekaterina Protassova
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 May 2023
  • Bringing together scholars specialising in Russian studies, linguistic and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics, this collection examines the discursive practices in which migrants' homes are framed, negotiated and constructed to reveal the complexity and ambivalence of home as a concept and as a phenomenon of social life.

    By examining migrants' stories about moving home, the book explores the stages of linguistic and cultural adaptation. It demonstrates that immigrants' homes are semiotic storehouses revealing their owners' past and present as well as aspirations for the future. It presents the first multifaceted investigation of the interdependence of materiality and emotions and materiality and language use by Russian-speaking immigrants.

Turning Global Rights into Local Realities
  • Realizing Children's Rights in Ghana's Pluralistic Society
  • Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2025
    Print publication:
    15 July 2024
  • Focusing on Ghana, this book explores the intersection of dominant children's rights principles with lived realities. Challenging one-dimensional portrayals, it advocates for more holistic approaches to the study of children's lives and children's rights realization in Southern contexts.

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison
  • The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown
  • Kate Herrity
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    17 December 2024
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with it? This book is the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividly to life through aural ethnography.

Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia

Masquerades in African Society

Decolonising State and Society in Uganda

Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City
  • Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy
  • Robert G. Hollands
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    25 January 2024
    Print publication:
    26 July 2023
  • A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such 'urban makeovers' lie serious problems such as widening inequalities and gentrification. Blending lively city case studies with broader theoretical debates, this book explores the opportunities for a more just and sustainable urban future.

Interpreting the Body

Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
  • Edited by Andrea Cossu, Jorge Fontdevila
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023
  • Written by experts in interpretive sociology, this volume examines semiotic models in a sociological context. Contributors offer case studies to demonstrate 'how to do things' with semiotics. Synthesizing a diverse and fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for understanding the connection between semiotics and sociology.

Interpreting Contentious Memory
  • Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past
  • Edited by Thomas DeGloma, Janet Jacobs
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 June 2023
  • This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households
  • Compromise, Conflict, Complicity
  • Kirstin Munro
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2023
  • Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this book sheds much-needed light on how sustainability-oriented households balance priorities and get things done in day-to-day life, offering crucial insights about eco-conscious living at an individual level.

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya
  • Sources, Origins and History
  • Jeremiah M. Kitunda
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    19 November 2021
  • A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.

Customs and Beliefs of the |xam
  • 2nd edition
  • Jeremy C. Hollmann
  • Published by:
    Wits University Press
    Published online:
    24 November 2023
    Print publication:
    01 November 2022
  • More than one hundred twenty-five years ago, a remarkable group of people came together in Cape Town to write down the language and beliefs of the |xam people, a Bushman group that once lived over much of South Africa. The immensely valuable work of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their |xam teachers not only preserved a language now no longer spoken, but also provided fascinating insights into |xam cosmology. First published in 2004, Customs and Beliefs of the |xam reproduces Dorothea Bleek's selection of |xam narratives from the well-known Bleek and Lloyd Collection that was originally published in the journal Bantu Studies during the 1930s. Collated and edited by Jeremy Hollman, the extracts include detailed notes on each of the narratives, as well as Bleek's 'sketch' of |xam grammar.

    This substantially revised second edition integrates new scholarship on the Bleek and Lloyd archive, and restores previously omitted material. The introduction to each narrative has been expanded to contextualise it within the archive as a whole and, where relevant, reference it to the Notebook of which it is a part. This includes meticulous cross-referencing with the Bleek and Lloyd Collection catalogue code and the Notebook number and line reference. Each of the texts has also been critically reassessed, with additional editorial notes and commentaries, in particular with respect to the |xam words themselves and the ways in which they have been translated. A synopsis of each narrative is provided in an appendix, with cross references to the Bleek and Lloyd notebooks.

Politics of the Gift
  • Towards a Convivial Society
  • Frank Adloff
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    20 June 2023
    Print publication:
    28 October 2022
  • Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in capitalism is broken.

A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
  • Edited by Luis I. Prádanos
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    17 January 2023
  • An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.

The Unstoppable Human Species
  • The Emergence of Homo Sapiens in Prehistory
  • John J. Shea
  • Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023
  • In The Unstoppable Human Species John Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, biosphere-level, extinction threats. He explores how and why we humans owe our survival skills to our global geographic range, a diaspora that was achieved during prehistoric times. By developing and integrating a suite of Ancestral Survival Skills, humans overcame survival challenges better than other hominins, and settled in previously unoccupied habitats. But how did they do it? How did early humans endure long enough to become our ancestors? Shea places 'how did they survive?' questions front and center in prehistory. Using an explicitly scientific, comparative, and hypothesis-testing approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines much 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, Shea's volume offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. Moving beyond unproductive archaeological debates about prehistoric population movements, The Unstoppable Human Species generates new and interesting questions about human evolution.

Disrupting Territories

Land, Investment and Politics
  • Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
  • Edited by Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa, Ian Scoones
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 January 2023
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers
  • Modern Greeks in the European Press (1850-1900)
  • Edited by Georgia Gotsi, Despina Provata
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    12 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 July 2021
  • What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned? This volume focuses on the reception of medieval and modern Greece in the European press, rigorously analysing journals and newspapers published in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The essays here suggest that reactions to the Greek state's progress and irredentist desires were followed among the European intelligentsia. Concurrently, new scholarship on the historical development of the Greek language and vernacular literature enhanced the image of medieval and modern Greece. This volume's contributors consider the press's role in this Europe-wide exchange of ideas, explore the links between romantic and late philhellenism and highlight the scholarly nature of the latter. Moreover, they highlight the human aspects of cultural transfers by focusing on networks of mediators, publishers and scholarly collaborators. This context enhances our understanding of both the creation of Hellenic studies and the complex formation of the modern Greek identity.

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