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The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples
by Lotte Hughes
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Indigenous peoples have long suffered from Exoticization. Outsiders elevate their beauty and difference but do not see beyond this to the problems they face. This title looks beyond the exotic images, tracing stories of indigenous peoples from their... ( read more)
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Human Origins: The Story of Our Species
by Yves Coppens
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Ten million years ago in tropical Africa, some large primates were forced to stand upright and walk on two feet. Over the next several million years, their minds and skills developed. They organized themselves into clans, invented tools and a consistent... ( read more)
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Introducing Anthropology (Introducing...)
by Merryl Wyn Davies
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Introducing Anthropology traces the genesis and evolution of anthropology from the ancient Greeks to contemporary times. Did anthropology serve as a 'handmaiden to colonialism'? Is it a 'science' created by racism to prove racism? Lucid in its arguments,... ( read more)
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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning
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Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the... ( read more)
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Culture and Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols Are Connected. an Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology (Themes in the Social Sciences)
by Edmund Ronald Leach
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The recent spread of 'structuralist' writing has been hailed as the dawn of a new age and condemned as an intellectual disaster but, like all fashionable diseases, it is more talked about than understood. Edmund Leach's new book is designed for the use... ( read more)
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Mal Uocchiuambiguityevil Eye (Anthropological Horizons)
by Sam Migliore
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The Evil Eye Has Received Considerable Attention in scholarly literature from disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Much of this literature attempts to identify and explain the phenomenon in a number of ways -- culture-bound syndrome... ( read more)
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Invitation to Anthropology
by Luke E Lassiter
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Lassiter's accessible introduction to anthropology encourages students to evaluate its relevance in our increasingly complex world. Part I focuses on the underlying assumptions and concepts that have driven anthropological theory and practice since its... ( read more)
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No Turning Back: A Hopi Woman's Struggle to Live in Two Worlds
by Polingays Qoyawayma
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Biography of a Hopi Indian woman and her career as an educator.... ( read more)
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Late Editions #0001: Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation
by George E Marcus
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Encompassing a range of disciplines—notably anthropology, politics, history, comparative literature, and philosophy—the unprecedented annual publication Late Editions exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented challenges facing cultural... ( read more)
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Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology
by Richard A Shweder
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Why do American children sleep alone instead of with their parents? Why do middle-aged Western women yearn for their youth, while young wives in India look forward to being middle-aged? In these provocative essays, one of the most brilliant advocates of... ( read more)
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Warrior Women Amazons of Dahomey & Natur
by Robert Edgerton
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Some prominent anthropologists have been joined by an eminent military historian in declaring that military combat - at all times and in all places - has been a male activity. They advance many reasons for this pattern, some more plausible than others... ( read more)
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by Clea Koff
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In the spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of... ( read more)
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Not By Bread Alone : Social Support in the New Russia (04 Edition)
by Melissa L. Caldwell
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Social support in the New Russia.... ( read more)
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The Guruma Story
by Loreen Brehaut
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Harsh and beautiful, the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been home to the Guruma people for thousands of years. In this book, the Guruma elders share stories of the land and the way they have lived there, revealing the richness and ingenuity of... ( read more)
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Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies
by H C Coombs
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A plea for a just society, this book is about reconciliation with Australia??'s Aboriginal people.... ( read more)
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One World, Many Cultures
by Stuart Hirschberg
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"A truly global, multicultural, and cross-cultural reader, One World, Many Cultures features 60 selections by major authors from 31 countries." The readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender, region, and nation, challenging... ( read more)
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Modernity, an Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
by Daniel Miller
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From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there has been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is ethnographic work... ( read more)
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South Asian Commun Catalysts Chang
by Sofia Chandra Gool
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This book draws on the strengths that characterize communities and shows how these strengths can be put to use in improving education. Inspired by the South Asian communities with whom she worked, the author considers also Black African and dual heritage... ( read more)
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The Dwellers on the Nile
by E A Wallis Budge
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Beginning with a history of ancient Egypt, the author then discusses daily life of the people, examines the Egyptian family and school, furniture, jewelry, food and drink, work and play; the Egyptian religion, medicine, much mmore.<BR>... ( read more)
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To Hunt in the Morning
by Janet Siskind
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"An excellent ethnography, good as a reader for an introductory course as well as courses on South American Indians, Cultural Ecology, or even Writing Ethnography. Her description is dynamic and her people are very alive--few ethnographers manage to... ( read more)
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