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Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
by Jonathan Marks
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This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the... (read more)

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Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
by Kelli Ann Costa
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The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of apeople, place, and pacea upon which Irish heritage tourism... (read more)

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Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization
Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization
by Glenn Petersen
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Traditional Micronesian Societies explores the extraordinary successes of the ancient voyaging peoples who first settled the Central Pacific islands some two thousand years ago. They and their descendants devised social and cultural adaptations that have... (read more)

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Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
by Rogaia Mu Abusharaf
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Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of... (read more)

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Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
by Monica Casper
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We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In... (read more)

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America at Risk
America at Risk
by Robert Perrucci
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In America at Risk The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth... (read more)

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America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring
America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring
by Robert Perrucci
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In America at Risk The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth... (read more)

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Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution
Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution
by Zvi (edt) Gitelman
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Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesnat keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder? In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the... (read more)

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International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children
International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children
by Diana (edt) Marre
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In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system... (read more)

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Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility
by Monica J. Casper
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We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In... (read more)

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Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
by Kelli Ann Costa
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The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of apeople, place, and pacea upon which Irish heritage tourism... (read more)

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Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)
Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)
by Jane E. (edt) Goodman
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The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieus theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieus early fieldwork and its impact on his... (read more)

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Anthropological History of Andean Polities
Anthropological History of Andean Polities
by John V. Murra
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This collection of essays by Andean, European and United States scholars brings together the perspectives of archaeology, of history and anthropology to present a complex view of Andean societies over the millennia. The unique features of the landscape... (read more)

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Culture and Customs of the Arab Gulf States (Culture and Customs of the Middle East)
Culture and Customs of the Arab Gulf States (Culture and Customs of the Middle East)
by Rebecca L. And Elizabeth Faier Torstrick
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Exciting, exhaustive, and essential coverage on the Arab Gulf States, ideal for high school students and general readers.... (read more)

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Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
by Rupert Stasch
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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this... (read more)

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Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
by Stanley R. Bailey
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The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the Afro-Brazilian population, unlike their U.S... (read more)

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Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley
Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley
by Richard W. Jefferies
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By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had... (read more)

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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
by Arika Okrent
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Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’... (read more)

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Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
by Jonathan Marks
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This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the... (read more)

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Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria
Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria
by Ruth Marshall
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Ruth Marshall is assistant professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.... (read more)

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The Cultural Values of Europe
The Cultural Values of Europe
by Hans (edt) Joas
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In this age of globalization and dissolving borders of national identity, questions about the nature of cultural values and symbolic structures abound, especially for newly integrated communities of political and social power like the European Union. In... (read more)

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Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
by Shane Greene
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How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own... (read more)

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Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females
Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females
by Martin N. (edt) Muller
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Conflict between males and females over reproduction is ubiquitous in nature due to fundamental differences between the sexes in reproductive rates and investment in offspring. In only a few species, however, do males strategically employ violence to... (read more)

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Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader
Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader
by Jerry Moore
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Visions of Culture: A Reader is an introduction to the major anthropological theorists and theories. Accompanying Jerry D. Moore's Visions of Culture, the reader is an edited anthology of articles by 25 anthropologists that explores the impact of each... (read more)

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Love in Africa
Love in Africa
by Jennifer (edt) Cole
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"This is a breakthrough volume on a remarkably neglected topic. The contributors include many of the top scholars in the field, and the chapters offer wonderfully insightful and revealing analyses of a broad range of ethnographic and historical cases... (read more)

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The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
by Liao Yiwu
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The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also... (read more)

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Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You
Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You
by Peter Stromberg
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Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely... (read more)

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American Nerd: The Story of My People
American Nerd: The Story of My People
by Benjamin Nugent
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Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal... (read more)

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Love in Africa
Love in Africa
by Jennifer Cole
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In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those... (read more)

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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend
California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend
by Philippe Bourgois
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This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more)

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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
by David Meltzer
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in... (read more)

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Madagascar: A Short History
Madagascar: A Short History
by Solofo Randrianja
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Solofo Randrianja is professor of history at the University of Toamasina, Madagascar, and the author of several books. Stephen Ellis is main researcher in the History Department at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.... (read more)

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The Oxford India Elwin
The Oxford India Elwin
by Verrier Elwin
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From presenting, in Elwin's own words, the account of his going to work among the tribal peoples of central India, to affording glimpses of his seminal work on the unique institution of the ghotul among the Murias of Bastar, or relating Elwin's attempts... (read more)

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Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
by Shane Greene
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How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own... (read more)

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Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today
Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today
by Chris (edt) Hann
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Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic... (read more)

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Cracking Under Pressure: Narratives of Decline in the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement
Cracking Under Pressure: Narratives of Decline in the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement
by Lynn Owens
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Social movements excite and energize their participants in their early phases, with expectations high and ambitions yet unchecked by reality. Consequently, the academic study of social movements has focused primarily on the stages of mobilization and... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age
by Brigitte (edt) Resl
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Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the point of extinction -- is the stuff of newspaper headlines.... (read more)

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Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You
Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You
by Peter G. Stromberg
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Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely... (read more)

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Enchantments of Modernity
Enchantments of Modernity
by Saurabh (edt) Dube
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Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial... (read more)

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Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
by Mark Dowie
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Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples.... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity
A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity
by Linda (edt) Kalof
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Animals had an ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BCE to 1000 CE, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age
by Bruce (edt) Boehrer
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The Renaissance was an extraordinary period of change in the West, fuelled by changing cultural formations, shifting empires, the growth in exploration, and developments in science and technology. A Cultural History of Animals in the Renaissance presents... (read more)

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Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937
Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937
by Katherine Ellinghaus
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Taking Assimilation to Heart examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. In these settler societies, white women were expected to reproduce white children to keep the white race... (read more)

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Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival
Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival
by Joao Biehl
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Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies... (read more)

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Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
by Rupert Stasch
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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this... (read more)

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Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes)
Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes)
by Catherine R. Dicesare
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Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or aSweeping, a has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual ceremonies, Ochpaniztlias significance has... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
by Kathleen (edt) Kete
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This volume investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art... (read more)

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Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
by Gilbert Herdt
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Unwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and... (read more)

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What Anthropologists Do
What Anthropologists Do
by Veronica Strang
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What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more. Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged field of study that seeks to... (read more)

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Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings
Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings
by Rudi Colloredo-mansfeld
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"This is an exceptionally well-written book with a narrative pull that captures the reader's imagination and makes it a joy to read. Colloredo-Mansfeld presents a provocative take on indigenous activism, the moral complexity of communities and civil... (read more)

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Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Survival of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers
Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Survival of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers
by Jana Fortier
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In today's world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society... (read more)

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Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings
Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings
by Rudi Colloredo-mansfeld
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Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the author of The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes.... (read more)

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The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle Between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle Between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
by Vernon James Knight, Jr. (edt)
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One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this... (read more)

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The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition
The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition
by Michael Burawoy
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In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century--the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its... (read more)

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Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
by Jan Hoffman French
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Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as... (read more)

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Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)
by Alessandro (edt) Duranti
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Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource... (read more)

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Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
by Ramon Gutierrez
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Numbering over a third of California's population and thirteen percent of the U.S. population, people of Mexican ancestry represent a hugely complex group with a long history in the country. Contributors explore a broad range of issues regarding... (read more)

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Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
by Jan Hoffman French
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Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as... (read more)

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Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Global Chinese Culture)
Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Global Chinese Culture)
by Alexander C. Y. Huang
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For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese Shakespeare... (read more)

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Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human
by Ellen Kaplan
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A dazzling new work of popular science and psychology for readers who enjoyed Blink, Stumbling on Happiness, or The Black Swan. The New York Times called the Kaplans' look at probability in everyday life, Chances Are..., a dizzying, exhilarating ride... (read more)

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What Anthropologists Do
What Anthropologists Do
by Veronica Strang
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What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more. Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged field of study that seeks to... (read more)

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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend
California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend
by Philippe Bourgois
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This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more)

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The Cambridge Companion to Levi-Strauss (Cambridge Companion To...)
The Cambridge Companion to Levi-Strauss (Cambridge Companion To...)
by Boris Wiseman
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Claude Levi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies... (read more)

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The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
by Richard Bernstein
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A rich and seductive narrative of the powerful erotic pull the East has always had for the West--a pervasive yet often ignored aspect of their long historical relationship--and a deep exploration of the intimate connection between sex and power. Richard... (read more)

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In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
by Daniel Meyerson
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In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened King Tutankhamun's tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelible place... (read more)

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Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
by Raminder (edt) Kaur
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Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean -- beyond the... (read more)

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment
by Matthew (edt) Senior
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The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. The codifying and categorizing impulse of the age of reason saw sharp lines drawn between different animal species and between animals and humans. In 1600, “beasts... (read more)

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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (John Hope Franklin Center Book)
Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by Michaeline Crichlow
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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of creolization. Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A... (read more)

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Anthropological Futures
Anthropological Futures
by Michael M. J. Fischer
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In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social... (read more)

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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation
Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation
by Michaeline A. Crichlow
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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of creolization. Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A... (read more)

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The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s
The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s
by Elissa J. Rashkin
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Stridentism (estridentismo) was a literary, artistic, and cultural movement founded in Mexico in the 1920s by poets Manuel Maples Arce, GermOn List Arzubide, and Salbador Gallardo, prose writer Arqueles Vela, painters Fermin Revueltas, Ram-n Alva de la... (read more)

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Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
by Alexis (edt) Mccrossen
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In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico from the United States. This richly illustrated... (read more)

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Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
by Raminder (edt) Kaur
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Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean -- beyond the... (read more)

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Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes
Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes
by Andrew P. Vayda
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In this selection of essays from decades of research, Vayda focuses on causal explanations of human and environmental interactions.... (read more)

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Fade to Black and White (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)
Fade to Black and White (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)
by Erica Chito Childs
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There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger... (read more)

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Extinction or Survival: The Remarkable Story of the Tigua, an Urban American Urban Tribe
Extinction or Survival: The Remarkable Story of the Tigua, an Urban American Urban Tribe
by S. K. Adam
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This book tells the story of how the Tigua, a small, urban American Indian community, has persevered through generations of poverty and persecution. The contemporary issue of Indian gaming is explored, and the politics behind the tribe's gaming rise and... (read more)

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Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
by Ramon A. (edt) Gutierrez
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Numbering over a third of California's population and thirteen percent of the U.S. population, people of Mexican ancestry represent a hugely complex group with a long history in the country. Contributors explore a broad range of issues regarding... (read more)

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Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
by James Faubion
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Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture
Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture
by Eoin (edt) Flannery
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The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene From Antiquity Through the Renaissance
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene From Antiquity Through the Renaissance
by Cynthia (edt) Kosso
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Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Culture (Societas)
Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Culture (Societas)
by William Irwin Thompson
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The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Tracking Globalization)
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Tracking Globalization)
by Christina Schwenkel
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A Sleeping Tiger: Ethnicity, Class, and New Dayak Dreams in Urban Sarawak
A Sleeping Tiger: Ethnicity, Class, and New Dayak Dreams in Urban Sarawak
by Clare L. Boulanger
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Co-Opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
Co-Opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
by B. Garrick (edt) Harden
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Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)
Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)
by Peter N. (edt) Peregrine
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The Oral History Manual
The Oral History Manual
by Barbara W. Sommer
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Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and Dominican Incorporation in Providence
Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and Dominican Incorporation in Providence
by Jose Itzigsohn
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Islam and New Kinship
Islam and New Kinship
by Morgan Clarke
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Social Security in Religious Networks
Social Security in Religious Networks
by Carolin (edt) Leutloff-grandits
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Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life
Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life
by Michael (edt) Carrithers
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The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave
The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave
by Erella Hovers
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