Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships

Growing Artefacts, Displaying RelationshipsWhat gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the finished product that is displayed, representing what could be an indigenous form of non verbal sociology. Engaging with several

New York and Abu Dhabi – experiencing at first hand the extraordinary ebb and flow of an industry that came to exert a disproportionate influence on the lives of almost everyone on the planet

to psychoanalytic therapy techniques in private practice

This volume presents a fresh translation of the Wenxin diaolong that is at once authoritative and elegant

nurse anesthetists

Yi Yulgok (1536-1584)

Henry gives theater a try

samadhi is the free flow of vital energy within the body and between the body and the universe

this text is also a valuable resource on early Chinese history

residence during the rains

This book addresses the continuing call to incorporate diversity issues into the scholarship on the psychology of women

Winner of the 2011 American Book Award presented by the Before Columbus Foundation

to such nineteenth-century luminaries as Amelia Edwards