"This book seeks to understand the connections between hunting, kingship, and masculinity in early medieval Europe. To answer this question, Goldberg traces the dynamic history of hunting from the late Roman empire, through the eras of the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, …
"Dealing with the Shang dynasty (ca. 1200-1045 B.C.), the first to leave written records in North China, this work focuses on the artisan corps, labor mobilization, farming, warfare, hunting, building, leadership, and culture"--Provided by publisher
Violet Bardos Privatdetektei läuft nicht besonders gut. Als dann auch noch ihre verwöhnte Schwester Emily verschwindet, macht sie sich auf die Suche - und stolpert in eine ausgewachsene Verschwörung. Die Spuren führen zu einer mysteriösen Firma, die mit der Schöpfung selbst expe…
"This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languag…
This reprint uncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Rock Cree of Northern Manitoba. For many hunters in this foraging society the technical conduct of hunting and trapping is embedded in a complex social and moral relationship…
