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CC Archaeology

GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography

GN Anthropology

GN 49-298 Physical anthropology. Somatology

GN 301-674 Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology

GN 700-890 Prehistoric archaeology

GT Manners and customs

HQ The Family. Marriage. Women

HT Communities. Classes. Races

P Philology. Linguistics

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Las Varas by Howard Tsai
Las Varas: Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes reveals a rare case of finding ethnicity relying solely on archaeological remains. In this monograph, data from the excavation of Las Varas are analyzed within a theoretical framework based on current understandings of ethnicity.
Loss and Wonder at the World's End by Laura A. Ogden
Laura A. Ogden considers a wide range of people, animal, and objects together as a way to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina.
Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour by Matthew Betts
The book describes in detail the findings of five seasons (2008-2012) of survey and excavation in Port Joli, and ten years of laboratory analysis, undertaken by the Canadian Museum of History, in collaboration with Acadia First Nation.
Cyborg Selves by Jeanine Thweatt-Bates
What is the 'posthuman'? Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? These questions underscore the fact that the posthuman is a name for the unknown future, and therefore, not a single idea but a jumble of competing visions - some of which may be exciting, some of which may be frightening, and which is which depends on who you are, and what you desire to be.

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