Hunting the Gatherers Peter H. Wilson

Hunting the Gatherers Peter H. WilsonBetween the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that

of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars

claiming that she would only marry a man with the face of a saint

up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics

and scientific knowledge

demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories

Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology

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Its primary purpose is to equip readers with the conceptual foundations and methodological tools needed to understand how BCIs work

Particular attention is given to global issues and aging policies in diverse countries and the ways in which they reflect human rights concerns

Contains over 500 outstanding color illustrations

Christiane Eisenberg shows that the creation of a market society and modern capitalism in England occurred under circumstances that were utterly different from those on the European continent

and expand opportunities for women in the Arab world’s largest country—all against a backdrop of political instability