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  • HUMAN ADAPTATION
    HOWARD MORPHY / G. A. HARRISON
    This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identified as conferring survival value in particular environmental circumstances. The drift versus selection argument is also fully reviewed. The second contribution concerns the physiolog...

    $939.00

  • BECOMING ART
    HOWARD MORPHY
    Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past. Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries betw...

    $979.00

  • MUSEUMS, INFINITY AND THE CULTURE OF PROTOCOLS
    HOWARD MORPHY
    Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morph...

    $539.00

  • ABORIGINAL RELIGIONS IN AUSTRALIA
    FRANÇOISE DUSSART / HOWARD MORPHY
    Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative ...

    $1,339.00

  • ANIMALS INTO ART
    HOWARD MORPHY
    This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts ...

    $1,339.00