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A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle
A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory, and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses,...
The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 "Von Hippel presents a radically new way to understand why human happiness has diminished. What's more, he offers superlative advice...
Lost in the Bush
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image--the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories...
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of
A breathtaking adventure across six continents that reveals the intricate cultures of native societies and their strategies of coping with climate change. You can't turn on the news today without...
Ape Man
A follow-up to the award-winning "Dinosaur!", this book ties in with a four-part Anglo-American television series on the story of evolution and of the people who have devoted their lives...
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and
This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming,...
Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and
What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating...
The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the...
Scotland's Shame?: Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland
Scotland's foremost composer, James MacMillan, accused his country of being a land of "sleep-walking bigotry" where "visceral anti-Catholicism" disfigures national life. Clearly MacMillan had touched a nerve. Was Scotland really...
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human. 'Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer...
Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
A long-time Austinite and journalist's exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas-charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges...
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands: Insular and Interwoven
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical...
Origins: What New Discoveries Reveal About The Emergence Of Our Species And Its Possible Future
$15.00 AUD
Author: Richard E Leakey And Roger LewinBinding: PaperbackPublished: MacDonald & Company, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn cover with some creasing....
The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 "Von Hippel presents a radically new way to understand why human happiness has diminished. What's more, he offers superlative advice...
The Dawn Of Time: Australian Aboriginal Myths In Paintings By Ainslie Roberts With Text By Charles P. Mountford
$25.00 AUD
Author: Ainslie Roberts, Charles P. MountfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Limited, 1974Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has surface tears on reverse, one evident from front (see photo top...
Aboriginal Art; Including Selected Oceanic Art
$25.00 AUD
Author: Sotheby'sBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sotheby's, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light stains on cover. This comprehensive art catalog presents a stunning collection...
Nepalese Women
$15.00 AUD
Author: MajupuriaBinding: PaperbackPublished: M. Devi, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Creased corners.This academic text offers a comprehensive sociological and anthropological examination of the lives of women...
Groote Eylandt: Changing Aboriginal Life Styles (Revised Edition)
$45.00 AUD
Author: Keith ColeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Keith Cole Publications, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic text by Keith Cole presents a comprehensive ethnographical...
Australian International Art; Modern Contemporary Australian Important Aboriginal Art
$30.00 AUD
Author: Menzies Art BrandsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Deutscher~Menzies (Menzies Art Brands Pty Ltd), 2008Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA catalogue from the Deutscher-Menzies Australian &...
Red Gold: The Conquest Of The Brazilian Indians, 1500-1760
$25.00 AUD
Author: John HemmingBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun faded spine, chips and tears to DJ.John Hemming's "Red...
Expedition To Surinam; Being The Narrative Of A Five Years Expedition Against The Revolted Negroes Of Surinam In Guiana On The Wild Coast Of South America From The Year 1772 To 1777
$40.00 AUD
Author: John Gabriel StedmanBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1963Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCaptain John Stedman's "Expedition To Surinam" is a compelling historical account and travelogue detailing his...
Sculpture/Inuit: Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic
$40.00 AUD
Author: ELLIOTT (George) et alBinding: HardbackPublished: Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Text: English & French.Published in...
Patterns Of Life: The Story Of The Aboriginal People Of Western Australia
$20.00 AUD
Author: M.E. LofgrenBinding: PaperbackPublished: Western Australian Museum, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slightly yellowed back cover and pages edges.This non-fiction work, "Patterns of Life: The Story...
Gulpilil's Stories Of The Dreamtime
$40.00 AUD
Author: Hugh Rule, Stuart GoodmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: William Collins, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a captivating array of traditional Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, as recounted...
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women
'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women
'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and
A 'Best Book of the Year 2023' in the New Statesman, Spectator and Waterstones'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian'Surprisingly revealing'...
Tourism: Between Place and Performance
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and...
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
$12.00 AUD
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction--its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its...
In the Blood
This work is about human origins. It draws on all the latest knowledge from anthropology and archaeology, via genetics and evolution, to psychology and medicine. It tackles issues such as...
Hypertext: the Electronic Labyrinth Interpretations Series
The Tourist
Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and...
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction
This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the...
Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture
In Rabelais's tale, the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant's size, ubiquity,...
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi- Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levis-Strauss' thought, from his...
Settle Down Country; Pmere Arlaltyewele
$35.00 AUD
Author: Pam Nathan And Dick Leichtleitner JapanangkaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kibble Books, 1983Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis non-fiction work, "Settle Down Country;...
Holy Days: The World Of A Hasidic Family
$12.00 AUD
Author: Lis HarrisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Collier Books, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small cut on FEP. This non-fiction work offers an intimate...
The Human Revolution: From Ape To Artist
$25.00 AUD
Author: Desmond CollinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, London, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Marks from dog earred pages.This anthropological...
The People In Between: The Pitjantjatjara People Of Ernabella
$30.00 AUD
Author: Winifred HilliardBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis anthropological study, "The People In Between:...
The Passion Of Private White
$25.00 AUD
Author: Don WatsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Scribner, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the life and work of anthropologist Neville White, detailing his profound engagement with the Yolngu...
Aboriginal Myths
$30.00 AUD
Author: Sreten Bozic In Conjunction With Alan MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: Gold Star Publications, 1972Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling collection presents a rich tapestry of Aboriginal Australian myths, meticulously...
Friendly Islands: A History Of Tonga
$50.00 AUD
Author: Noel RutherfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1977Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ has a slightly sun faded spine. Otherwise fine.This comprehensive volume chronicles the...
Children Of The Wilderness
$40.00 AUD
Author: Donald ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Currey O'Neil, 1983Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a compelling account of the lives of indigenous children. It documents their unique...