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Articulating Hidden Histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf
by Jane Schneider
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With his groundbreaking "Europe and the People Without History," Eric R. Wolf powerfully advanced the project of integrating the disciplines of anthropology and history. In "Articulating Hidden Histories," many of those influenced by Wolf--both... ( read more)
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Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage
by Steven A Leblanc
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.... ( read more)
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Globalization
by Arjun Appadurai
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Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization.... ( read more)
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Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies #11: The Seed and the Soil
by Carol Delaney
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"A lively ethnography of one intensely studied village, it teems with insights on the links between cosmology, power, and gender. A book for theologians, feminists, all anthropologists, and other critical thinkers."--Paul Stirling, The University of Kent,... ( read more)
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Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture
by Tim Megarry
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Reveals a profound understanding of evolutionary biology, and an excellent up-to-date knowledge of human evolution studies. It is not only very well done, but...it is written from a novel point of view. It needs to be very widely read and I hope that it... ( read more)
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Lost Civilizations: Rediscovering Ancient Sites Through New Technologies
by Austen Atkinson
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Through the use of never-before-published radar and resistance maps from NASA, the Russian Space Agency, National Geographic, the European Space Agency, and other organizations, "Lost Civilizations" investigates 20 of the most intriguing lost cities in... ( read more)
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When Egypt Ruled the East
by George Steindorff
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Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry... ( read more)
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Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory
by Nick Hubble
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The social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across... ( read more)
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Egyptian Book of Living & Dying the Illu
by Joann Fletcher
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A book which reveals the mysteries of ancient Egypt's amazingly diverse belief system, with a wealth of colour illustrations of religious sites, tomb paintings and artefacts.... ( read more)
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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney
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When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz... ( read more)
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Other Cultures: Aims, Methods, and Achievements in Social Anthropology
by John Beattie
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"Other Cultures" provides a lucid introduction to the relatively new field of social anthropology. The author devotes the first part of the book to a consideration of what social anthropology is and seeks to do, what areas it covers, and the methods of... ( read more)
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Indians, Markets, and Rainforests: Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics
by Ricardo A Godoy
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Godoy investigates five lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America -- all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize -- to discover the results of a market economy on both indigenous peoples and the conservation of tropical... ( read more)
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The Mammal in the Mirror: Understanding Our Place in the Natural World
by David P. Barash
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This is a paperbound reprint of a 2000 book about which Book News
wrote: Father David (zoology, U. of Washington-Seattle) and daughter
Ilona (medicine, U. of California-San Diego) offer educated but not
scientifically sophisticated readers an overview of... ( read more)
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan
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This pioneering work, originally published in 1972, was the first to argue irrefutably the equal role of women in human evolution.... ( read more)
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Memory of Trade (00 Edition)
by Patricia Spyer
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Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic research, Spyer examines the dynamics of contact with the Dutch and Europeans, Suharto's postcolonial regime, and the competing religions of Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism in the context... ( read more)
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Lives of the Ancient Egyptians
by Toby Wilkinson
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The greatest civilization of the ancient world revealed through the tales of the men and women, both rulers and commoners, who lived in those times. The one hundred biographies included here give voice not only to ancient Egypt's rulers but also to the... ( read more)
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Ancient Egypt: A Social History
by Bruse Trigger
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'The processes of political, social and economic change are traced in an original survey of the ancient societies that flourished in the Nile Valley from the predynastic period to the conquest by Alexander the Great.'... ( read more)
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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition
by Mary Cather Bateson
About the Author
Mary Catherine Bateson is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and divides her time between Virginia and the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. She has written and co-authored... ( read more)
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Echoes from Dharamsala
by Keila Diehl
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A personal record of the musical life of the Tibetan refugee community in Dharamsala, India, written by a young American woman who joined a Tibetan rock band while living there.... ( read more)
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Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz
by James A Boon
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In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a... ( read more)
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