Anthropology
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Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change
Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved...RM123.00 -
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere Rubbing two sticks together produces heat...RM159.90 -
From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia’s most ethnically heterogeneous provinces,...RM85.00 -
From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography and the Power of Imagery
In 1986 the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard mounted From Site to Sight, a groundbreaking traveling exhibition on the historic...RM160.00 -
Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Bibliographic Review
An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe Numerous governments fail to recognise its indigenous peoples living within...RM186.30 -
Global Heritage: A Reader
Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting...RM249.00 -
Government-Linked Companies and Sustainable, Equitable Development
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled...RM204.00 -
Health Care in Malaysia: The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades This book examines this transformation and...RM178.00 -
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Can forests think Do dogs dream In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our...RM138.00 -
Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response during the Younger Dryas
A major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene...RM181.00 -
Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives
In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of...RM197.00 -
Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology
Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest...RM159.90 -
Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary 2001 volume Since the...RM245.00 -
Iban Ritual Textiles
Iban Ritual Textiles draws on years of fieldwork and the author's documentation of hundreds of Iban cloths Topics include the ritual functions...RM80.00 -
iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and...RM155.90 -
In and Out of the West: Reconstructing Anthropology
Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial domination and cultural imperialism by other means, or has it--since its nineteenth-century rebirth...RM160.00 -
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place
In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study...RM161.50 -
Indians in Malaya: Immigration and Settlement 1786-1957
This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and...RM105.00