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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
by David Graeber
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andldquo;If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does... ( read more)
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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
by Arjun Appadurai
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The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in... ( read more)
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Participant Observation
by Kathleen Musante Dewalt
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Participant Observation is a central and defining method of research in cultural anthropology, as well as a common feature of qualitative research in other disciplines--sociology, education, health sciences. The authors provide the basic guide to the... ( read more)
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Somatotyping - Development and Applications (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology)
by J E L Carter
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The first major account of the somatotyping field in over thirty years, this volume presents a comprehensive history of somatotyping, beginning with W.H. Sheldon's introduction to the method in 1940. The controversies regarding the validity of Sheldon's... ( read more)
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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition
by Mary Cather Bateson
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In Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, bestselling author and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks with an inspired eye at how our very concepts of personal identity and shared fulfillment are changing. Living longer than ever before... ( read more)
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Structural Anthropology #1: Structural Anthropology
by Claude Levi Strauss
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The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of... ( read more)
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Human Enterprise: A Critical Introduction to Anthropological Theory
by James W Lett
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The Human Enterprise presents a wide-ranging but well-integrated analysis of contemporary anthropological theory. The author explains clearly and cogently how to evaluate scientific theories and encourages students to think critically about the nature of... ( read more)
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus
by Noel T Boaz
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-215) and index.... ( read more)
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Sexualities in History: A Reader
by Kim M Phillips
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Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific... ( read more)
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Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology #02: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
by Michael Lambek
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"<BR> A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion" is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings on the anthropology of religion. It includes both material whose theme is 'religion' in a straightforward and obvious... ( read more)
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Last of the Medicine Men
by Benedict Allen
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In The Last of the Medicine Men, author Benedict Allen, explores the mysterious and dramatic world of healers, who are popularly referred to as witchdoctors. In the diverse communities of the world, healing roles are assumed by faithhealers, shamans... ( read more)
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Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans
by Alan Riding
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A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.... ( read more)
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Chrysanthemum & the Sword Patterns Of
by Ruth Benedict
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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)
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Verbal art in San Blas :Kuna culture through its discourses
by Joel Sherzer
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First published in 1990, this linguistic study of the Kuna Indians of Panama is now available only from UNM Press.... ( read more)
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Collection Alea-Saclay #85: Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
by Alan Barnard
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The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders" (in the past called "Hottentots"), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalihari desert and... ( read more)
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Warrior Herdsmen: The Absorbing Chronicle of an Expedition to the Tribesmen of Northern Uganda
by Elizabeth M Thomas
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The Dodoth- a tall, handsome people of the northern trip of Uganda- are a tribe transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read... ( read more)
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Ancient Society (Classics of Anthropology)
by Lewis Henry Morgan
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Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on... ( read more)
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Beast on the Table Conferencing With Ant
by Sydel Silverman
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Memoirs of Wenner-Gren Foundation anthropological conferences by the former president of the foundation. Visit our website for sample chapters!... ( read more)
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Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color
by William M Ferguson
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The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700 B.C. to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100... ( read more)
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A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology (Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses)
by Marc Auge
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This book outlines a radical approach to anthropology that focuses on negotiating the social meanings we and others use in making sense of the world.... ( read more)
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