Cultural Anthropology
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From  Affective NeuroscienceFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. | Andreas Weber | 30 | 2016 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Divided We StandThe Myth of Heroism From: National Dreams |
It has often been observed that English Canada has not produced many heroes. The overwhelming influence of American culture on Canadian lives has inhibited the emergence of homegrown greatness. … | Daniel Frances | 42 | 1997 | $1.68 Add |
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From  Return to Germany, March 1885 – July 1886: Seeking and Testing Academic Pursuits in Geography / Baffin-Land – Surveys and Inuit Place Names, 1885: Coping with Map Design and LanguageChapters 7 and 8 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 7 covers the period of Boas’ life after he returned to Germany, detailing his feelings, travels, research and lectures. Chapter 8 starts as Boas is finishing his influential book … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsWhy We Want to be Misled with Dan Kahan |
Group values impact risk perceptions and how our interpretation of scientific evidence is shaped by our cultural affiliations. Cultural cognition describes the tendency of individuals to conform … | James Hoggan | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Your Microbial Orchestra |
Microbes have been with humans for every step of our evolutionary journey. Symbiosis describes living in close proximity with mutual advantage — an apt description of our relationship with … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From A Failure to CommunicateFacts are not Enough with George Lakoff |
Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From  That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … | David Berry | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The Eclipsed History of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of commons and our memory of them. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that once bound a people … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Ideology of the CanoeThe Myth of Wilderness From: National Dreams |
The canoe is omnipresent in Canadian history and folklore. Canadians feel that the canoe is a fundamental icon of our nationality, representing as it does our links to our history, to our land, … | Daniel Frances | 50 | 1997 | $2.50 Add |
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From The Question in the Eyes of the WolfFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author describes his journey to study the Ethiopian wolf; this story is the basis for Weber’s meditation on the connections between living beings. | Andreas Weber | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Tao in My Own NatureFrom: The Web of Meaning |
This chapter overturns much conventional thinking and points out that the natural world, our own nature, and the culture in which we are embedded, are all subject to the same principles. … | Jeremy Lent | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From Traditional Nutrition |
We will explore the ways in which foundational nutrition — the solid nutritional framework upon which health sits — can support resilience, influence mental outlook and motivation, … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 38 | 2017 | $3.80 Add |
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From Vagaries of Arctic Geography, 1886: Landscapes and Human Occupancy / Getting settled in the United States, 1886-1888: Ethnological and Geographical WritingsChapters 9 and 10 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 9 begins after the publication of Baffin-Land, discussing its author’s enthusiasm, reception of the book, its structure/contents (chapter by chapter). It also comments on his … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
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From A Failure to CommunicateMatters of Concern with Bruno Latour |
Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From ConclusionThe Memory of Ourselves From: On Nostalgia |
Nostalgia is an acutely modern condition. As our future seems more in doubt, our past seems to offer more clarity and comfort. Beyond that, nostalgia helps us reconcile the dissonence of our … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Flourishing as an Integrated OrganismFrom: The Web of Meaning |
Examining the way we develop as profoundly affected by the conditions in which we grow, the author describes health in harmony and the harmful effects of advertising such as income inequality, … | Jeremy Lent | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
