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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10)
by Philippe Bourgois
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This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... ( read more)
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Origin of Humankind
by Richard Leakey
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This text provides an account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings. Leakey is interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible... ( read more)
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
by Elisabeth Bumiller
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"The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller illuminates the... ( read more)
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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books Classics)
by Clifford Geertz
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In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... ( read more)
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now... ( read more)
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Discoveries: Search for Ancient Egypt (Discoveries)
by Jean Vercoutter
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Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... ( read more)
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Exploring Ancient Egypt (Places in Time)
by Ian Shaw
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Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of... ( read more)
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Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
by Werner Forman
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With the help of Werner Forman's beautiful full-color photographs, Egyptologist Stephen Quirke explains the Pyramid Texts, created for kings and queens ca. 2400 to 2100 B.C.; the Coffin Texts, used by the affluent as well as royalty during the Middle... ( read more)
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Healing Wisdom of Africa
by Malidoma Patri Some
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A fascinating, detailed journey through the traditional healing practices of West Africa by a beloved shaman and scholar.... ( read more)
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Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition
by A P Elkin
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ANTHROPOLOGY / RELIGIONThe first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degreepresents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation... ( read more)
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
by Elenore Smith Bowen
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A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.... ( read more)
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The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T Hall
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An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural... ( read more)
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Savages
by Joe Kane
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Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.... ( read more)
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses from Around the World
by Frederick Franck
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In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our... ( read more)
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
by Michael Agar
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The key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understandingthe context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural values intertwine to define who we are and how we relate... ( read more)
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Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporar
by Maximilian Ch Forte
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Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of the absent aboriginal. Yet, all across the Caribbean Basin, individuals and communities are reasserting their identities as indigenous peoples, from Carib communities in the Lesser... ( read more)
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Nefertiti
by Michelle Moran
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A National Bestseller! “Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in history.” –Boston Globe Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in... ( read more)
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Harmony Ideology
by Laura Nader
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" Nader' s scholarly volume, though detailed, is very readable. Not only is this book a major contribution to the anthropology of law by one of its leading proponents but also one that should be considered by scholars interested in other aspects of... ( read more)
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Anthropology of Performance
by Victor Turner
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Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body... ( read more)
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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
by Ramon A Gutierrez
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This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in... ( read more)
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