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  • Plants Matter

    Exploring the Becomings of Plants and People

    Edición de Luci Attala, Louise Steel ...
    Series series Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
    Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, ... Leer más

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  • How Water Makes Us Human

    Engagements with the Materiality of Water

    de Luci Attala ...
    Series series Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
    This book provides a novel cross-disciplinary approach to water, demonstrating the role water plays in shaping human lives. It uses anthropological information about water in Kenya, Wales and Spain to show how what water does in those areas has influenced the way that people can be with it. ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Earthy Matters

    Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay

    Edición de Louise Steel, Luci Attala ...
    Series series Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
    Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth ‒ materials that surround us and have shaped people’s interactions with the environment since even before the first ... Leer más

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  • Body Matters

    Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body

    Edición de Luci Attala, Louise Steel ...
    Series series Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
    Adopting a novel cross-disciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the value of understanding human bodies as fundamentally influenced and affected by the other materials available in diverse landscapes. Using a rich mix of ethnographic, archaeological and historical examples, it explores the creative roles materials have taken in shaping past and present people’s bodies. ... Leer más

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    Series series Critical Food Studies
    Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this multidisciplinary volume asks ’why do individuals, institutions and agencies care about what other people eat?’ It explores how acts of caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. In so doing, the volume extends current critical debates regarding food ... Leer más

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  • Making and Growing

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    Edición de Elizabeth Hallam, Tim Ingold ...
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    Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the ... Leer más

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  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

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  • Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods

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