The Anthropology of Expeditions : Travel, Visualities, Afterlives 9781941792018, 9781941792001

Adventures in photography expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 1931707413

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Expeditionary Anthropology: Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man'' 9781785337734

The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole

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Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 9781934536223

The vintage photographs in this collection range from pictures taken for record-keeping purposes to glorious aesthetic t

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The Ra Expeditions

One riddle, two answers and no solution -- Why a reed boat? -- To the Indians in the Cactus Forest -- With Bedouin and B

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The Discovery of Albania: Travel Writing and Anthropology in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans 9780755621743, 9781350154681

Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder

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Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck 9780824894801

In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard w

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Writing, Travel, and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology 9780755624713, 9780857718051

The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures, whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement wit

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The Afterlives of Georges Perec 9781474401258

Examines Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday

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The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad 9780814729298

The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary aut

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Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris in the Archive 9781501339424

Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking b

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