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  • Undoing Things

    How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart

    Modifié par Gavin Lucas, Shannon Lee Dawdy ...
    Collections series Archaeological Orientations
    Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds.Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality and material culture as a coherent phenomenon—making objects, building things, constructing identities—the discourse around undoing is more fragmented. Topics such as ruination, death, decay, demolition ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Modifié par Jason W. Moore ...
    Collections series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... En savoir plus

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  • Know-It-All Anthropology

    The 50 Extraordinary Human Innovations and Events, Each Explained in Under a Minute

    Modifié par Simon Underdown ...
    An informative reference containing concise explanations for the major anthropological discoveries in human physical, cultural, and social history.Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet?These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on ... En savoir plus

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Modifié par William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Elderflora

    A Modern History of Ancient Trees

    par Jared Farmer ...
    **The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal**Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Abundance

    The Archaeology of Plenitude

    Modifié par Monica L. Smith ...
    Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Modifié par Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... En savoir plus

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  • Thinking with Water

    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Weathered

    Cultures of Climate

    par Mike Hulme ...
    Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Acting with the World

    Agency in the Anthropocene

    In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a pattern that he calls acting-with the world. In contrast to our usual practice of acting on the world, ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Water

    Nature and Culture

    par Veronica Strang ...
    Collections series Earth
    Water flows centrally through human lives, hydrating our bodies and all of the organic species on which we depend; sustaining the ecosystems we inhabit; and enabling our agricultural and technological developments. Throughout human history, water’s life-giving and destructive capacities have had powerful symbolic meanings for diverse cultures and societies. Water considers our relationship with ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD