Stories
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
Catalogue
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A companion to gender prehistory / edited by Diane Bolger.
Date: 2013- Books
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Introductory address on the study of anthropology : delivered before the Anthropological Society of London, February 24th, 1863 / by James Hunt.
Hunt, James, 1833-1869.Date: 1863- Books
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Anniversary address delivered before the Anthropological Society of London, January 5th, 1864 / by James Hunt.
Hunt, James, 1833-1869.Date: 1864- Books
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Lake habitations and pre-historic remains in the turbaries and marl-beds of northern and central Italy / by Bartolomeo Gastaldi ; translated from the Italian and edited by Charles Harcourt Chambers.
Date: 1865- Journals
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Anthropologica
Date: 1955-