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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “pierre lemonnier”
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  • Mundane Objects

    Materiality and Non-verbal Communication

    by Pierre Lemonnier ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations. Lemonnier shows that some objects, their physical properties and their ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Technological Choices

    Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic

    Edited by Pierre Lemonnier ...
    Series series Material Cultures
    Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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  • What Is Paleolithic Art?

    Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

    by Jean Clottes ...
    Translated by Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin ...
    The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making

    Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Prehistoric Rock Art

    Polemics and Progress

    by Paul G. Bahn ...
    Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • To Design Landscape

    Art, Nature & Utility

    by Catherine Dee ...
    To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of "aesthetics of thrift".Employing numerous case studies-as diverse as Hellerup Rose ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Ways of Being Alive

    by Baptiste Morizot ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility – that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material backdrop for the drama of human life: the animal world is regarded as part of ‘nature’, juxtaposed to the world of human beings who ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Redrawing Anthropology

    Materials, Movements, Lines

    Edited by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think about creativity and perception, to grasp the dynamics of improvisatory ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • A Cosmos in Stone

    Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

    by David J. Lewis-Williams ...
    Series series Archaeology of Religion
    J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Anthropology and Cryptozoology

    Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures

    Edited by Samantha Hurn ...
    Series series Multispecies Encounters
    Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, there is a growing recognition that social science can benefit from engaging with it, for as as ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD