Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick...

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika...

A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.58% of the world’s languages—or, approximately 4,000 languages—are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that...

We know that prehistoric humans made fire and shaped tools, but in this book the author argues that our ancestors shaped us - the human face, our racial differences and our problematic relationship with nature are all self-made. The author suggests that...

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children―and who was worthy of life. The Shortest History books deliver...

The Mountain of Names offers a Kaleidoscopic view of the nature of the family throughout history. From primitive societies, where family and kinship define each person's sense of self, through the genealogies of aristocratic families, the rise of modern...

This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and...

Steve Barnett, Martin G. Silverman. Bibliography: P. [167]-179.

Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a...

The history and culture of the area that now forms parts of Iran, Iraq, and Syria are described in terms of artifacts found there dating from the Stone Age to 539 B.C. and the Persian invasion

Product DescriptionExamining the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present, this book places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends...

(Since the revolution in 1979, when the Sandanista government came to power, Nicaragua has been the focus of intense public scrutiny. Yet political rhetoric, media simplification, even passionate emotional support have often obscured the struggles and...

First Edition, 01991, first printing, SIGNED by both authors on the first page, an otherwise like-new, unread, unopened, unmarked slightly oversized hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket with a sticker stating: " Cody Books...