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  • Visualizing Anthropology

    Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography

    Edited by Anna Grimshaw, Amanda Ravetz ...
    Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be understood on its own terms rather than by means of established textual frameworks? Visualizing Anthropology takes up this challenge. Bringing together a ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Women - Volume 2

    Maud Diver to Mary Elizabeth Hawker

    by Maud Diver, Mollie Frank Bloch, Elinor Glyn, Sarah Grand, Anna Katharine Green, Beatrice Grimshaw, Anna Maria Hall, Beatrice Harraden, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Dorothy Havers ...
    Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Tanya Thomson, Amanda Weston ...

    Unabridged

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Irish, Scottish & Welsh Women

    Don't let great literature die

    by Ethna Carbery, Jane Findlater, Beatrice Grimshaw, Anna Maria Hall, Mary Anne Hoare, Frances E Huntley, Violet Jacob, Josephine Tey, Ethel Lina White ...
    Narrated by Tanya Thomson, Fiona McKinnon, Lisa Bowerman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • From Here to Eternity

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  • Sex, Time, and Power

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  • An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

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  • The Ontological Turn

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