A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et a
Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one
Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition ofWeapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discu
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This collection of previously unpublished case studies of a number of Austronesian and Papuan languages illustrates the means that these languages offer to their speakers for referring to space. The u
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