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Structural Anthropology #1: Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strausss understanding of man and society in terms of individuals&... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice by Susan F Hirsch Publisher Comments "In the Moment of Greatest Calamity is a profoundly moving and illuminating testament to a victim's need for understanding and justice-not vengeance or retaliation-in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack. With extraordinary wisdom and insight... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon by Nancy Lutkehaus Publisher Comments "This is an absorbing, expertly researched, and much-needed treatment of Margaret Mead. It is the definitive book about Mead's fame and her complicities in creating it."--George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine "Engaging and illuminating, this... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History by Sidney W Mintz Publisher Comments Worker in the Caneis both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham Staff Pick Richard Wrangham's lucid, fascinating book presents a strong case that the act of harnessing the power of fire to cook food might have created modern humanity. Convincing, thoughtful, and beautifully written, Catching Fire is a surprising look at the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rites of Life by Anders Ryman Publisher Comments From birth to death and beyond This book depicts people at some of the most emotional moments of their lives. For more than seven years Anders Ryman traveled the world documenting life cycle rituals. The result is a book that in intimate and... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $19.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell Publisher Comments Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve out a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles Korth's amazing life and adventures, creating a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Culture in Practice: Collected Essays by Marshall Sahlins Publisher Comments Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala by Kay B Warren Publisher Comments In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Ma Thomas Publisher Comments Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Traditional Textiles of the Andes: Life & Cloth in the Highlands by Lynn Ann Meisch Book News Annotation Published in conjunction with an exhibition "To Honor the Ancestors: Life and Cloth in the Andes," at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francicso, June 1997. Explanatory essays featuring photos of weavers and their environments accompany full display and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Culture in Practice: Selected Essays by Marshall Da Sahlins Publisher Comments Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art by James Clifford Publisher Comments The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why We Cooperate (Boston Review Books) by Michael Tomasello Publisher Comments Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham Staff Pick Richard Wrangham's lucid, fascinating book presents a strong case that the act of harnessing the power of fire to cook food might have created modern humanity. Convincing, thoughtful, and beautifully written, Catching Fire is a surprising look at the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives by Leonard D Katz Publisher Comments Four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality. To what extent is human morality the outcome of a continuous development from motives, emotions and social behaviour found in nonhuman animals? Jerome... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz by James A Boon Publisher Comments In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey Publisher Comments The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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