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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Publisher Comments A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years--a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior by Roy Ellen Publisher Comments Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity by Guy P. Harrison Synopsis There are vast differences between notions of race and the scientific view of human diversity. Drawing on research from diverse sources and interviews with key scientists, an award-winning journalist surveys the current state of a volatile subject.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Stuff by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture) by Paul Shankman Publisher Comments In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead's Samoan... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life by Chuan-kang Shih Publisher Comments In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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I Saw It Coming: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) by Tracy E. K'meyer Synopsis In this book, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skill, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and revealing a sense of... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $78.75 New - Hardcover
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Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras by Mark Anderson Publisher Comments Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) by Haya Gavish Synopsis A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel.... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing by Mari Womack Synopsis The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing by Mari Womack Synopsis The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Uli (edt) Linke Synopsis In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore how governments use fear in order to control their citizens. The social contract gives modern states responsibility for the security of their citizens, but this collection argues that... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Uli (edt) Linke Synopsis In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore how governments use fear in order to control their citizens. The social contract gives modern states responsibility for the security of their citizens, but this collection argues that... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Stuff by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can... (read more) List Price $63.75 Your price: $59.50 New - Hardcover
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The Central Arawaks (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) by William Curtis Farabee Publisher Comments In 1913, ethnologist and explorer William Curtis Farabee set out to document the Arawak tribes of northern Brazil and southern British Guiana, a three-year journey that led him far into the unmapped regions of the Amazon River basin. His meticulous... (read more) Your price: $35.75 New - Trade Paper
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Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America by Ed Farber Publisher Comments During the course of American history, scientific theories have been used to legitimate racial ideas that in turn have been important in creating and interpreting the law. Race and Science collects essays from leading voices in law, history, history of... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact by Michael V. Wilcox Synopsis In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz by George (edt) Baca Publisher Comments Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections by Roisin (edt) Ryan-flood Publisher Comments Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research... (read more) List Price $130.00 Your price: $126.75 New - Hardcover
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The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Sumposia and Colloquia) by William L. (edt) Fash Publisher Comments This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) by Philip C. C. Huang Synopsis The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Despite formal adherence to Western law and... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900 by Nancy Minor Synopsis This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia by Neil L. (edt) Whitehead Publisher Comments Unlike better-known regions of the Amazon, Guayanaaa broad cultural region that includes the countries of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana, as well as parts of eastern Venezuela and northern Brazilahas rarely been integrated into the broader narratives... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom by Ralph Hassig Synopsis This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of insider knowledge and experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras by Marisa O. (edt) Ensor Publisher Comments Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century by James Livingston Synopsis The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late-20th century, in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building by Sharika (edt) Thiranagama Publisher Comments The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India by Ritty A. Lukose Publisher Comments Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between midnight's children, who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $78.75 New - Hardcover
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Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz by George (edt) Baca Publisher Comments Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It by Hugh (edt) Gusterson Publisher Comments Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900 by Nancy Mcgown Minor Synopsis This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.... (read more) Your price: $41.25 New - Trade Paper
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Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War (Ethnography of Political Violence) by Antonius C. G. M. (edt) Robben Publisher Comments The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution by Kancha Ilaiah Publisher Comments This book is entirely different from books that have been written on Indian civil societal relations, spiritual character, political economy, philosophical foundations, scientific roots, cultural essence, and historicity. It takes a journey from tribals... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Creating Communities: New Advances in Central European Neolithic Research by Daniela Hofmann And Penny Bickle Synopsis The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $53.60 New - Trade Paper
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Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Megan Warin Publisher Comments Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It by Hugh (edt) Gusterson Publisher Comments Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (Ethnography of Political Violence) by Kalyani Devaki Menon Publisher Comments Hindu nationalism has been responsible for acts of extreme violence against religious minorities and is a dominant force on the sociopolitical landscape of contemporary India. How does such a violent and exclusionary movement recruit supporters? How do... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey Into the Middle East by Andrea B. Rugh Publisher Comments The Greater Middle East poses major challenges for the United States. Yet despite decades of intense involvement in Middle Eastern affairs, most Americans still know little about the cultures of the region. Simple Gestures describes one American's... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics by Robin M. Leblanc Synopsis "A beautifully written book, "The Art of the Gut" reads as easily as a fast-paced novel. Searching beyond the formal structures, regulations, and demographic counts associated with elections to consider the potential for one man to make a difference... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Abject Relations (Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Megan Warin Publisher Comments Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what... (read more) Your price: $83.75 New - Hardcover
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The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics by Robin M. Leblanc Synopsis "A beautifully written book, "The Art of the Gut" reads as easily as a fast-paced novel. Searching beyond the formal structures, regulations, and demographic counts associated with elections to consider the potential for one man to make a difference... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China: Ritual, Complicity, Community by D. J. W. Hatfield Publisher Comments This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage. Taiwanese Pilgrimage to... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $83.25 New - Hardcover
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Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia (John Hope Franklin Center Books) by S. Ann Dunham Publisher Comments President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India by Mukulika Banerjee Synopsis Twelve narratives offer portraits of Muslims in India today, recounting their stories, predicaments, aspirations, and the highs and lows of their lives. Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet nuanced and incisive, these essays portray individuals... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover 
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Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century by Stana Nenadic Publisher Comments Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores, through the experiences of individuals and groups ranging from James Boswell and his circle at one end of the social spectrum to highland folk musicians... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition by Conrad Phillip Kottak Publisher Comments A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author's research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits by Joana Breidenbach Synopsis This engagingly written, jargon-free challenge to the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. Culture is... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Going Abroad: How to Travel Like an Anthropologist by Rob Gordon Publisher Comments Increasingly students from the affluent countries are going abroad as part of their educational experience. Although students see these experiences as invaluable and believe that they have learned a lot, the anthropological literature suggests the... (read more) Your price: $101.95 New - Hardcover
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Policy Research in Comparative Education by Richard Desjardin Synopsis As national governments reform their educational systems to meet the challenges of living in a globalised world, the agenda setting power of transnational organizations like the OECD and the EU have become more transparent in the last decade. The... (read more) Your price: $46.50 New - Trade Paper
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Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader by E. Paul Durrenberger Publisher Comments Anthropology Unbound explains how anthropology helps students understand the tags in their clothes, binge drinking way too much beer, their choice of university, and so much more. This new anthology offers ethnographic examples from exotic settings of... (read more) Your price: $107.50 New - Hardcover
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Excavating the Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition and Materiality by Helle Juel Jensen Publisher Comments Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper
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Studies in Archaeology and History #15: On the Track of the Thule Culture from Bering Strait to East Greenland: Proceedings of the Sila Conference the Thule Culture - New Perspectives in Inu by Bjarne Gronnow Synopsis The Thule Culture - the ancestors of the present day Inuit - never cease to fascinate and spur archaeological and ethno-historical research. As a tribute to the most distinguished specialist in the Thule culture of the Eastern Arctic, research professor... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other Through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals (Routledge Contemporary Asia) by Christian Culas Publisher Comments South-East Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world as far as ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is concerned with an extremely rich ancient and contemporary history. Because of this, it offers an exceptionally rich field of study for... (read more) Your price: $143.25 New - Hardcover
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Proceedings of the British Academy #159: Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches by Anthony F. Heath Publisher Comments India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras by Mark Anderson Publisher Comments Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School by Peter Demerath Publisher Comments Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as Producing Success makes clear, the problem goes... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Of Poverty and Plastic: Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy by Gill Publisher Comments Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies by Ryan Patrick (edt) Hanley Publisher Comments More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings together in five volumes the very best... (read more) List Price $1502.25 Your price: $1240.25 New - Hardcover
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Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Second Edition by E. Paul Durenberger Publisher Comments The second edition of this revolutionary new anthropology textbook retains its commitment of honest involvement of students in anthropology, challenging them to understand their own lives in anthropological terms, and urging them to live lives dedicated... (read more) Your price: $108.50 New - Hardcover
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Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America by Kavita Ramdya Synopsis Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on recent advances in material culture studies... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy by Joseba Zulaika Publisher Comments In counterterrorism circles, the standard response to questions about the possibility of future attacks is the terse one-liner: Not if, but when. This mantra supposedly conveys a realistic approach to the problem, but, as Joseba Zulaika argues in... (read more) List Price $73.95 Your price: $69.75 New - Hardcover
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The Eurasian Miracle by Jack Goody Your price: $59.50 New - Hardcover
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The Sociology of Tourism by Graham M. S. Dann Your price: $185.50 New - Hardcover
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Offerings To the Discerning Eye by Sue H. (edt) D'auria List Price $169.00 Your price: $161.75 New - Hardcover
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Ethics in Design #2: Rights Through Making: Wearing Quality by Elisabetta Cianfanelli Publisher Comments It seems that we have touched upon the limits of the rationalistic model. Words and communication often overshadow actions and deeds, instead of jointly working towards a solution. In this book it is proposed a new way of thinking, where action and... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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Drug Policy: History, Theory, and Consequences by Vibeke Asmussen Publisher Comments In this book, anthropologists, criminologists and sociologists analyse different aspects of drug policy. The articles approach drug policy from new angles, focusing in particular on the history and consequences of drug policy in practice. How can we... (read more) Your price: $43.95 New - Trade Paper
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Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies) by Gabrielle Vail Synopsis Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. Contributors to the... (read more) Your price: $61.75 New - Hardcover
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Civilization of the American Indian #264: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume Two: The Codical Texts by Martha J. Macri Publisher Comments For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting... (read more) Your price: $79.75 New - Hardcover
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Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City (Mesoamerican Worlds) by Rostas Susanna Publisher Comments In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the only full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas delves into the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern... (read more) Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India by Mukulika Banerjee Synopsis Twelve narratives offer portraits of Muslims in India today, recounting their stories, predicaments, aspirations, and the highs and lows of their lives. Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet nuanced and incisive, these essays portray individuals... (read more) Your price: $20.50 New - Trade Paper
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Neurodynamix II by W. Otto Friesen Publisher Comments The membrane electrical potential is a central element in the functioning of all living cells, and temporal variations of this potential are crucial for signaling within the nervous systems of all animals. Electrical properties of nerve cells are covered... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Spiral
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Textiles from the Balkans (Fabric Folios) by Diane Waller Publisher Comments This is the first time the British Museum's fascinating collection of Balkan textiles, dating from the late 19th to the mid 20th century and one of the finest in the world, will be published. The book is also the first published overview of the textiles... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture by Ronnie D. Lipschutz Synopsis This entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and practices in capitalism, neo-classical economics, and political economy through an interpretation of popular films and novels of the past 60 years. Including works as varied... (read more) Your price: $85.95 New - Hardcover
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Readings in Modernity in Africa (Readings In...) by Peter Geschiere Publisher Comments Questions surrounding modernity and its meanings weigh heavily on students and scholars who study Africa. Becoming modern carries a lot of different meanings and puts concepts of culture, tradition, and nation into uneasy use. Readings in Modernity in... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture by Ronnie D. Lipschutz Synopsis This entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and practices in capitalism, neo-classical economics, and political economy through an interpretation of popular films and novels of the past 60 years. Including works as varied... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Textiles of the Andes (Fabric Folios) by Penny Dransart Publisher Comments This is the first time the British Museum's major collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles is being published as a group. Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia by Kamran Asdar Ali Publisher Comments This book highlights the changing social dynamics in Middle Eastern and South Asian cities. The comparative framework builds on a shared history of the colonial encounter, modernity, nationalism and urbanity and is further deepened by the larger... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Studies in Symbolic Interaction by Norman K. (edt) Denzin Your price: $195.75 New - Hardcover
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