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  • Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300)

    Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves

    by Debra L. Martin, Claira Ralston ...
    Series series Bodies and Lives
    This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100–1300). The experiences of women as a result of their gender, age, and status over the life course are reconstructed, with consideration given to the gendered forms of violence ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    by Joseph Henrich ...
    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

    The Foraging Spectrum

    by Robert L. Kelly ...
    In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Hierarchy in the Forest

    The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

    by Christopher Boehm ...
    Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Lancet: Zoonoses

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Endemic and enzootic zoonoses cause about a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year, and emerging zoonoses are a rising threat to global health. Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of human infectious diseases, and have been responsible for some of the most devastating disease outbreaks in recent ... Read more

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  • The Human Swarm

    How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

    by Mark W. Moffett ...
    The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Indian Blood

    HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community

    by Andrew J. Jolivétte ...
    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ StudiesThe first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.Prior to contact with European ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Syndemics

    A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

    by Merrill Singer ...
    This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that addresses underlying social and environmental causes. This perspective complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete problems, but often are mismatched to the goal of protecting the public's health in its widest sense. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • A Different Kind of Animal

    How Culture Transformed Our Species

    by Robert Boyd ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    by Jon Entine, Bernd Heinrich, Clifford Geertz, Robert Scott, Greg Downey, Vilma Charlton, Dirk Lund Christensen, Loren Cordain, Søren Damkjaer, Joe Friel, Rachael Irving, Kerrie P. Lewis, Peter G. Mewett, Andy Miah, Timothy Noakes, Yannis P. Pitsiladis ...
    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • Ethics and Animals

    An Introduction

    by Lori Gruen ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD