Anthropology 2020-2021 HIGHLIGHTS FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES
Intersectional Perspectives Edited by Barbara Parker et al
THE NEW NEW ZEALAND
Mar 2020 300pp 9781773381091 Paperback US$64.95
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Concepts, Cases, and Conversations Edited by Priscilla Settee & Shailesh Shukla
2019 320pp 9780889616097 Paperback US$64.95
This expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with an intersectional feminist perspective, addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits, and perspectives. Canadian Scholars
INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS
Explores an array of Indigenous food systems from across Canada. Seeking solutions to food insecurity, Indigenous and nonIndigenous food practitioners and scholars document the voices and experiences of community members. Canadian Scholars
The Māori and Pākehā Populations William Edward Moneyhun
This anthropological inquiry focuses on religion and related symbols, forms of reciprocity, the operation of power and the concept of culture as they have developed in modern New Zealand society. McFarland
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INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTION
A Bio-Cultural Approach Gillian Crane-Kramer & Roman Gastrell Harrison 2015 304pp 9781631898662 Paperback US$94.95
Makes evolution, primatology, and human variation appealing to today's learners. This book introduces readers to issues surrounding the theory of evolution, sheds light on questions about what evolution is or isn't, and discusses how we know what we think we do about it.
READINGS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Classic and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Robin Conley Riner 2019 376pp 9781516530922 Paperback US$129.95
Provides students with an engaging and diverse collection of articles pertaining to cultural anthropology. This text encourages readers to compare traditional and modern readings on specific topics related to anthropology to better understand how the discipline has evolved into what it is today.
Canadian Scholars BESTSELLER
INDIGENOUS RESEARCH
Theories, Practices, and Relationships Edited by Deborah McGregor, Jean-Paul Restoule & Rochelle Johnston 2018 950pp 9781773380858 Paperback US$59.95
Provides readers with concrete and in-depth examples of how to overcome the challenges of Indigenous research with respect to Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and ontology.
THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Select Readings, Second Edition Kim Woodring
Aug 2020 326pp 9781516580705 Paperback US$156.95
Addresses the importance of religion in ancient civilisations and encourages readers to evaluate these civilisations both historically and critically. The selected readings help readers understand civilisations as whole systems with not only social and political characteristics, but also religious ones. Academy Chicago Publishers
RESEARCH METHODS
Exploring the Social World in Canadian Contexts, Second Edition Diane Symbaluk Jan 2020 444pp 9781773381541 Paperback US$79.95
Offers students a highly accessible and engaging introduction to research methodology from a uniquely Canadian perspective. This text examines both qualitative and quantitative research methods from the early planning stages to writing proposals and reports.
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DESIGN FOR THE REAL WORLD Human Ecology and Social Change, Second Edition Victor Papanek 1985 394pp 9780897331531 Paperback US$25.00
Examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy.
Delve Publishing
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THE AFRICAN DWELLING
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ECO-AESTHETICS
Transnational Perspectives Edited by Sr Candy D'Cunha Oct 2020 115pp 9781680531022 Hardback US$139.95
Eco-criticism begins with the concept of imagination, in other words, eco-aesthetics through which the power of words, stories, images, essence, and meaning are directly applied to environmental problems that afflict planet earth today.
IN THE “WILD COUNTRIES” OF CENTRAL ASIA
Ethnography, Science, and Empire in Imperial Russia Scott Bailey 2019 184pp 9781680530872 Hardback US$139.95
Traces the history of the dynamic Russian Geographical Society, which carried out major research expeditions to Central Eurasia during the second half of the nineteenth century.
ETHNOBOTANICAL ANALYSIS OF WILD FOOD PLANTS TRADITIONALLY COLLECTED AND CONSUMED Edited by Akansha Singh & Mohammad Waseemul Islam
Nov 2020 277pp 9781774078037 Hardback US$160.00
Provides a quantitative study on the ecological characteristics and seasonal aggregation of wild edible plants in man-made ecosystems. NEW
INTRODUCTION TO ETHNOBOTANY Edited by Akansha Singh & Mohammad Waseemul Islam
Nov 2020 277pp 9781774078013 Hardback US$160.00
Discusses how Indigenous people use plants for food, medicine, cultural customs, housing, fuel, and transportation. This book covers the evolution of ethnobotany and the formation of this field over the years.
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THE PEOPLES OF ANCIENT SIBERIA An Archeological History Aleksei P. Okladnikov Translated & edited by Richard L. Bland & Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Sep 2020 160pp 9781680531442 Hardback US$139.95
Relying on petroglyphs and pictographs left on cliffs and boulders, Okladnikov lays out in detail and straightforward language the prehistory of Siberia by "reading" these artefacts. NEW
REVISITING ECO-LITERATURE A Critical Study of Global Issues and Challenges Edited by Sr Candy D'Cunha Oct 2020 110pp 9781680539387 Hardback US$139.95
The study of literature and the environment evokes and promotes this highly original eco-critical collection and its contributions to evaluating the preservation of nature and human attachment and to situate it at a local, communitarian, or bio-regional level.
From Traditional to Western Style Homes Epée Ellong with Diane Chehab
Paths International Ltd NEW
2019 112pp, 200 photos 9781476673806 Paperback US$49.95
Descriptions of architectural styles, layouts, materials, and construction techniques are woven into this discussion of the larger historical and cultural context, examining how lifestyle changes and architectural trends influence one another. Readers will come away with a rich understanding of the challenges and opportunities for a new generation of African architects.
CHINESE GONG FU
Toward a Body-Centered Understanding R.F. Gonzalez Feb 2020 148pp, 50 photos 9781476662213 Paperback US$39.95
Drawing on familiar routines, films, artefacts and art, the author connects the reader to ancient Chinese culture, philosophy, myth, shamanism and ritual.
MAN AND NATURE IN CHINA
JUNALUSKA
Dec 2020 358pp 9781844646005 Hardback US$95.00
Aug 2020 235pp, 42 photos 9781476680170 Paperback US$29.95 Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, Vol. 48
Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community Edited by Susan E. Keefe
Gender, Natural Resources Management and the Chinese State in an Inner Mongolia Village Hu Yukun Provides a first-hand understanding of natural resource management and environment changes from a gender perspective, in the context of larger economic and ecological transformations in a peasant community in Inner Mongolia.
PRINCIPLES IN XIANGJI OPERATION Chinese Economic Ethnology Tingshuo Yang Translated by Gary Situ
2019 644pp 9781844645466 Hardback US$125.00
One of the most important works about earlier systematical theoretical analysis on economic anthropology theories in China.
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