Anthropology
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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  NEW! The Deep Purpose of LifeFrom: The Web of Meaning |
This chapter discovers that not only that life does have purpose, but that intrinsic purpose is, in fact, a defining characteristic of life. The author discusses research in the dynamics of … | Jeremy Lent | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 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 |
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From  “… the elementary relationship between land and people …”: Geographical and Ethnological Paradigms / Early Geographical Studies, 1881-1883: Inuit Occupancy in the ArcticChapters 1 and 2 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 1 discusses Franz Boas’ life and research/various publications and their importance as well as explores his interests, academic directions, and influences. Chapter 2 explores … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
The Franz Boas EnigmaInuit, Arctic, and Sciences |
“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 188 | 2014 | View |
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From NEW! The Harmonic Dance of LifeFrom: The Web of Meaning |
Competition in the development of life is contrasted with the far more important role co-operation has had in producing the breathtaking diversity and beauty of life. Darwinism, the discovery of … | Jeremy Lent | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 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 Infantilization of QuebecThe Myth of Unity From: National Dreams |
The author presents the opposing view points on the Battle of Quebec. For generations, while Quebec historians characterized the Battle of Quebec as a catastrophe, English-Canadian historians … | Daniel Frances | 49 | 1997 | $1.96 Add |
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From The Machine That Can DieFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author explores "holistic biology," which considers both bodily and inner experiences as biological phenomena. | Andreas Weber | 34 | 2016 | $3.40 Add |
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From  The Mighty Tool of Public NarrativePsychic Numbing with Paul Slovic |
When numbers soar, our consistency with basic values and concerns collapses. Most people are caring and highly responsive when they hear of an individual’s desperate plight, yet are numbly … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From The Mighty Tool of Public NarrativeSometimes David Wins with Marshall Ganz |
Resourcefulness — fueled by courage, commitment and imagination — can overcome nominally powerful resources, as well as the arrogance that often goes with them. | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Mild WestThe Myth of RCMP From: National Dreams |
For a hundred years the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has occupied a special place in Canadian history and our imaginations. The story of how they drove out the American whiskey peddlers and … | Daniel Frances | 49 | 1997 | $1.96 Add |
