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by Jared Diamond  
Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes Bruce Chatwin into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Ben Pritchard Synopsis Writings from the cultures of biblical times supplement the Old Testament in documenting the history of the ancient Near East.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark J Plotkin
Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Loring M Danforth Publisher Comments "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments What Margaret Mead did for Samoa, Colin Turnbull did for Africa. An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Turnbull’s life-long love affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and ‘70s. In an... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David A Mcmurray Publisher Comments Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review" "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments Rarely have anthropologists regarded fieldwork as a serious object of study, although it is tacitly accepted as their major activity. How valid is the process? To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Harner Publisher Comments The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author--"The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Benedict Publisher Comments For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin M Turnbull Publisher Comments "The Forest People" -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.<P... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard W Bulliet Publisher Comments Bulliet offers a compelling exploration of the changing relationships among humans and animals. By considering the shifting roles of donkeys, camels, dogs, and other domesticated animals in human society as well as their place in the social imagination... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Benedict Publisher Comments A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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