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  • Montology Palimpsest

    A Primer of Mountain Geographies

    Edited by Fausto O. Sarmiento ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces an innovative approach to sustainable and regenerative mountain development. Transdisciplinary to biophysical and biocultural scales, it provides answers to the "what, when, how, why, and where" that researchers question on mountains, including the most challenging: So What! Forwarding thinking in its treatment of core subjects, this decolonial, non-hegemonic volume ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Mountain Lexicon

    A Corpus of Montology and Innovation

    Edited by Fausto O. Sarmiento, Alexey Gunya ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is the second volume in a series on montology dedicated to the transdisciplinary reflection of mountain research, considering the diversity of views on mountains and their problemata in the context of rapid technological development and unprecedented accumulation and dissemination of information around the world. The necessity for a new orderly and structured lexicon arose from the need ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Indigeneity and the Sacred

    Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

    Edited by Fausto Sarmiento, Sarah Hitchner ...
    Series Book 22 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Full Value of Parks

    From Economics to the Intangible

    by P.S Ramakrishnan, Anthony J. English, Ellen Lee, John Shultis, enneth Angu Angu, Terence Hay-Edie, Holmes Rolston III, Eduardo Crespo de Nogueira, Consuelo Martinez Flores, Gary E. Davis, David M. Graber, Steven A. Acker, Alan Ewert, Steven J. Hollenhorst, Leo McAvoy, Keith C. Russell, Bradley W. Barr, Rod Ehler, Peter Wiley, German I. Andrade, Thomas Schaaf, Mechtild Rossler, Neema Pathak, Ashish Kothari, Natalia Danilina, Vladimir Boreyko, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Michael J. Tranel, Adrienne Hall, Johnathan I. Barnes, Bron Taylor, Joel Geffen, Mercedes Otegui ...
    The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as ... Read more

    $151.59 CAD

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    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Read more

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  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Edited by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, Robyn E. Cutright ...
    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Read more

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  • Ancestral Future

    by Ailton Krenak ...
    Translated by Alex Brostoff, Jamille Pinheiro Dias ...
    Series series Critical South
    Shortlisted for 2026 MSA Translation Book PrizeIntroduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex BrostoffIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact.Capitalism encroaches on every corner of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ancient People of the Andes

    by Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Human-Nature Interactions

    Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes

    Edited by Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Sustainability

    Beyond Development and Progress

    Edited by Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for ... Read more

    $32.09 CAD