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British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain
by Nigel Rapport
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The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological... ( read more)
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
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Brilliantly orchestrating the newest findings of geneticists, psychologists, and anthropologists, this book re-examines the everyday assumptions upon which we base our actions towards others, whether in our roles as parents, siblings, or trade partners... ( read more)
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New Directions in Anthropological Kinship
by Linda Stone
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Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The... ( read more)
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Uncommon Lives
by Patricia Grinager
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In this vivid and deeply personal portrait of Mead's brilliance, foibles, humor and her private reactions to friends and enemies, Uncommon Lives traces the intertwined lives of two remarkable women.... ( read more)
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Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Andrew Radford
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This textbook based on syntactic theory draws on Chomsky??'s minimalist programme.... ( read more)
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Language Matters
by Laurie Bauer
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This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language. The core areas of language study are approached by focusing on questions such as: Where does language come from? Why don't we all talk the same? Who needs grammar? Pitched at a... ( read more)
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Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe: The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Angela Procoli
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"Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social... ( read more)
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Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender & Kinship
by Gloria Goodw Raheja
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In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of... ( read more)
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Early Anthropology in 16th and 17th Centuries
by Margaret T Hodgen
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Writing with erudition and a broad grasp of the history of social thought, Hodgen demonstrates the debt owed to the period of the late Renaissance and even the centuries prior to that.--American Anthropologist Although social sciences such as... ( read more)
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Early Man
by Paul Jordan
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How were we transformed from ape-like creatures without tool-making, language ot culture into people of the latter part of the last ice age who, give or take the further progress of technology, were just like ourselves? Covering five million years, this... ( read more)
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Primitive Classification
by Emile Durkheim
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Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the Année Sociologique in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical... ( read more)
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La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance
by Olga Najera Ramirez
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An intimate study of a religious festival in contemporary Mexico that skillfully weaves together ethnography, history, and folklore.... ( read more)
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The Bone Lady
by Mary H Manhein
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As director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory at Louisiana State University, Manhein unravels mysteries of life and death every day. In "The Bone Lady", she shares many fascinating cases that include the... ( read more)
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Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India
by Jean Luc Racine
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Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented... ( read more)
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
by Steve Olson
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-275) and index.... ( read more)
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On Being a Conceptual Animal
by Arthur H Niehoff
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This collection of 24 essays illustrates how humans perceive the world using symbolic concepts. While scientists have long accepted humankind as an animal that stands upright and uses tools, we now know that humans also have a very special way of... ( read more)
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Human (Smithsonian Institution)
by Robert Winston
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This definitive visual guide takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. From evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future aspects of human life, this book examines the qualities that all humans share and profiles more than 250... ( read more)
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Iron, Gender, & Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies
by Eugenia W Herbert
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Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities-chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making-to propose a gender/age-based theory of power.... ( read more)
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Nuer Dilemmas
by Sharon E Hutchinson
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"Not just a brilliant restudy of one of anthropology's most famous 'peoples' but an exemplary historical ethnography that will be a landmark in the discipline. . . . With extraordinary sensitivity Hutchinson reveals how the Nuer have confronted the most... ( read more)
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Self-Made Man: Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction?
by Jonathan Kingdon
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We know prehistoric humans shaped tools and made fire. But evolutionary biologist Jonathan Kingdon thinks that our ancestors shaped us and that the human face, our racial differences, and our problematic relationship with nature are all self-made... ( read more)
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