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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way.
Author
Publisher
Marhsall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Description
Explores the field of forensic anthropology, where the human skeleton is used to solve crimes and uncover mysteries, looks at famous cases, and discusses the education and training needed to become a forensic anthropologist.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history,...
4) Sweetgrass
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Lawrence Allestad and family were among the last of the traditional sheepherders of the American West. Under a public grazing permit that had been handed down in his Norwegian-American family for generations, Allestad was the final rancher to drive his herds into Montana's rugged Absaroka-Beartooth range north of Yellowstone to fatten on sweet summer grass. The family members and their hired hands conducted the drives much as their pioneer forebears...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue humans are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
When Eve receives a package containing a skull-and instructions for Eve to do her work reconstructing it. When she does, a beautiful woman's face emerges. But when Eve is introduced to the dead woman's mirror image, a game is on where her twin's life hangs in the balance.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 303 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A provocative exploration of how computers are reshaping ideas about what it means to be human profiles the annual Turing Test to assess a computer's capacity for thought while analyzing related philosophical, biological, and moral issues.
Author
Publisher
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 527 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Description
"For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people....
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In the fifties, a French-Brazilian photojournalist and a crew of anthropologists encounter an unknown tribe in the Amazon jungle. Decades later, his daughter inherits the photos and sets off on her own quest to rediscover the Kayapo nation.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Henry Glassie has made a life out of studying folk artists and the marvels they create. Over the past 50 years, the renown US scholar has travelled to five continents, conducting fieldwork with an obsessive thoroughnes. Each project Glassie undertakes requires at least a decade. Brimming with insights into the artistic impulse—and how every culture manifests its own standard of beauty and meaning—this poetic portrait of Glassie doubles as a travelogue,...
11) See No Evil
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A film star, a linguist and a cripple – three very different elderly and retired apes, who have all led extraordinary lives at the hands of their human cousins. Looking back at their lifetime experiences as a performer, the subject of NASA experimentation and the recipient of language training, this poignant and poetic doc explores the fine line between us and them. Who is actually observing whom? And who is really learning from it?
Author
Publisher
Editions Prosveta
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 7 cm
Description
The majority of human beings belong to the group without light. They talk about rediscovering Nature and obeying the natural laws, but which nature are they talking about? There are two natures in man, one lower, one higher. People think they are obeying Nature when in fact they are doing something exactly opposite to their higher Nature, whereas others concentrate on their divine Nature and do everything in their power to subjugate and restrict the...
13) Night and day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target. It will take everything she has to rescue Cara, and doing so will put that which is dearest to her at risk. Night and Day is the pulse-pounding race to a conclusion that will have readers...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (17 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of their union, but also, even more controversially, same-sex couples. A portrait of a staggeringly progressive and liberal institution, that counters the conservatism and orthodoxy found elsewhere in India’s religious communities.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity?s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness."--Amazon.com.
16) Hide away
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney,a young girl with ruthless enemies who want to see her dead, Eve takes her away to the remote Scottish Highlands where they join Jane MacGuire in search of a hidden treasure. But nowhere is far enough...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (India). Its central characters are a priest and three devotees, who show why this temple is so important to them. The film follows these characters through their daily routines at home, at the temple, and on their occasional visits to the...
18) In Aiye's Garden
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (41 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of carbohydrates (in the stem and underground bulb). Enset has been farmed from time immemorial in the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia, where women are the main cultivators. The film focuses on Aiye, the filmmaker's grandmother, who shares her knowledge about the enset plant, and shows how it is possible to produce good organic food by using simple farming...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE WOMEN WEAVERS OF ASSAM focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to a non-profit collective called Tezpur District Mahila Samiti (TDMS), which was founded a century ago by women activists and Gandhian freedom fighters of Assam. The TDMS weavers preserve traditional motifs and methods of Assamese weaving, which have been declining since the introduction...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Dancing Grass captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient indigenous grain, is central to the livelihood of smallholder farmers and may be called the 'cereal core' of Ethiopian national food identity. A local elder provides the commentary for the sequence of events that unfold in the homestead, fields and neighbourhood of the author's eldest brother and family: the cutting of the 'dancing grass';...
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