Cultural Anthropology
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From  Other Nicotine Delivery Systems |
Chapter Six includes the following topics: Heated Tobacco Products (Heat not Burn (IQOS)) – Cigars/Cigarillos/Little Cigars – Pipes/Chillums – Hookahs/Water Pipes – … | James G. Wigmore | 126 | 2023 | $12.60 Add |
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From  Pathways in Geography and Ethnology, 1884-1886: Inuit, Environment, and Beliefs / The American Period, September 1884 – March 1885: Searching for Scientific Grounding and ResponsesChapters 5 and 6 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 5 looks at the aftermath of his sojourn with the Inuit and whalers, as he travelled between the USA and Europe, until his immigration to the United States. Chapter 6 discusses Boas’ … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Peoples of the AnacondaFrom: The Wayfinders |
From The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World | Wade Davis | 37 | 2009 | $3.70 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  Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space From: The Power Manual |
Rites of Passage, highlights Victor Turner’s thinking on liminality, the space of transformation, the ritual of transitioning from one state to another. One leaves behind previous … | Cyndi Suarez | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From Season of the Brown HyenaFrom: The Wayfinders |
From The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World | Wade Davis | 34 | 2009 | $3.40 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMorality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt |
Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … | James Hoggan | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 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  Spineless AdmirationOn Anti-Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … | David Berry | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 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  NEW! The Arrival of AgricultureFrom: Humans |
This chapter looks at the advent of agricultural societies and sedentary lifestyles, it inspects what effect these developments had on the egalitarian values of their foraging ancestors … | Alvin Finkel | 36 | 2024 | $3.60 Add |
 The Biology of WonderAliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science |
In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being … | Andreas Weber | 336 | 2016 | View |
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From The Body of the SeaFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter explores why we must focus on a multiplicity of species to understand the enigma of life. | Andreas Weber | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
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From The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:On the Why of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe … | David Berry | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From The Desire for LifeFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
The author discusses his scientific education, and how he felt that something was lacking in the overly mechanistic conception of life in biology. | Andreas Weber | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 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 |
