|
There are 1134 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Anthropology - Used Books
Page 5 of 57 next
Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, & Imaginations
by Michael Burawoy
Publisher Comments
This collection is an original approach to link the everyday lives of people and the issues of globalization. Each of the nine multi-locational ethnographies examine the way the global is experienced as supranational forces, as transnational connections,... ( read more)
List Price $22.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms
by Andrew Robinson
Publisher Comments
A succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated book which traces the history of each of the major writing systems of the world. This revised edition also includes a new section on the latest findings and research, and discusses the ways in which the digital... ( read more)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $16.95
Used - Trade Paper
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures
by Richard Leakey
Publisher Comments
In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Hardcover
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
by Elizabeth M Thomas
Publisher Comments
One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots—and the roots of life as we know it When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen,... ( read more)
List Price $27.00
Your price: $17.95
Used - Hardcover
Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China #02: Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities
by Melissa J Brown
Publisher Comments
Melissa Brown looks at the issue of Tiawan - specifically whether or not the Taiwanese are of Chinese/Han ethnicity (as is claimed by the Chinese government) - or is there in fact a Taiwanese ethnicity that is in fact unique unto itself (as the Taiwanese... ( read more)
List Price $26.95
Your price: $12.95
Used - Trade Paper
Life in Ancient Egypt
by Adolf Erman
Publisher Comments
The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick
Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... ( read more)
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Language Matters
by Laurie Bauer
Publisher Comments
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)
List Price $37.95
Your price: $17.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt
by Jon E Lewis
Publisher Comments
In this new Mammoth volume's variety of firsthand accounts--from papyri, chiseled tablets, court records, temple texts, graffiti, classical Greek and Roman histories--the ancient Egyptian way of life is unfolded in colorful detail with dramatic immediacy.... ( read more)
List Price $12.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
by Steve Olson
Publisher Comments
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-275) and index.... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by Lois W Banner
Publisher Comments
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $9.95
Used - Trade Paper
Intimate Behaviour
by Desmond Morris
Publisher Comments
Twenty-five years after it first caused a splash in the scientific and literary worlds, Intimate Behavior is still one of the best chronicles of human intimacy. With a masterful and entertaining eye, Desmond Morris, bestselling author of The Naked Ape... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
Human: The Definitive Visual Guide
by Robert Winston
Publisher Comments
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)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $13.75
Used - Trade Paper
Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory
by Kenneth M Ames
Publisher Comments
Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art -- masks, totem poles, woven blankets -- produced by... ( read more)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $14.95
Used - Trade Paper
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 1
by John Stephens
Publisher Comments
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this a... ( read more)
List Price $11.95
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
by Edward T Hall
Publisher Comments
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.... ( read more)
List Price $13.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
Bollingen Series #11: The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
by Heinrich Zimmer
Publisher Comments
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this... ( read more)
List Price $26.25
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook
by Douglas Ubelaker
Publisher Comments
Fascinating, educational, and highly readable, "Bones" takes readers into the dark world of forensic science. Dr. Ubelaker, a frequent forensics consultant to the FBI, and Scammell, author of "Mortal Remains, " document a collection of cases that span... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $9.95
Used - Trade Paper
Dreamtime & Inner Space: The World of the Shaman
by Kalweit Holger
Synopsis
Argues that shamans make spiritual journeys in an altered state of consciousness in order to contact the dead, see the future, or heal the sick and describes their training and development.... ( read more)
List Price $22.50
Your price: $11.95
Used - Trade Paper
Risk and Culture
by Mary Douglas
Publisher Comments
Includes bibliographical references and index.... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $10.95
Used - Trade Paper
 |
see more featured titles
|  |
|
Don't Miss