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The History of Death: Burial Customs and Funeral Rites, from the Ancient World to Modern Times by Michael Kerrigan Publisher Comments Death may be universal, but just as every culture has found ways of living life differently, each has also found different and sometimes extraordinary ways to deal with dying and the effects that it has on the people left behind. This wide-ranging book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 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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Ten Southeast Asian Tribes from Five Countries: Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines by David Howard Publisher Comments A sensitive and personal portrayal featuring 889 pictures of ten tribes from Thailand, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and the Philippines. This original and innovative book embodies traditions that have evolved over thousands of years and which are slowly... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Culinary Art and Anthropology by Joy Adapon Publisher Comments Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavor using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the "art nexus." Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt: A Study of Spirit Possession by Hans Alexan Winkler Publisher Comments In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a spirit medium named Abdel Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. Abdel Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $16.95 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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The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Lauren Van Der Post Publisher Comments An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Evolution of War: A Study of Its Role in Early Societies by Maurice R Davie Publisher Comments Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English. Mark Abley by Mark Abley Publisher Comments The Prodigal Tongue takes a look at the wild, wacky and sometimes baffling road our language-English and others-is taking in its evolution. Where in the world will it end up? Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, has created an entertaining and informative... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Death in Ancient Egypt by Bridget Mcdermott Publisher Comments Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society, and Bridget McDermott's book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to explore the beliefs and customs of ordinary people. The book looks at how death occurred - through illness... (read more) Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Claude Livi-Strauss by Christopher Johnson Publisher Comments Original analysis of and introduction to Claude Lvi-Strauss, the most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists.... (read more) List Price $90.25 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Explanation and Experience in Social Science by Robert Brown Publisher Comments According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves. Social scientists often discuss the nature of knowledge in their fields with a notable lack of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mountain People by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.98 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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Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (Terry Lectures) by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Janis B Nuckolls Publisher Comments Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $32.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Craving Earth: Understanding Pica--The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk by Sera Young Publisher Comments Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and go crazy without these items, but why? Sifting through extensive historical... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Hardcover
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How to Read a Word by Elizabeth Knowles Publisher Comments Language is not fixed, but evolves over time, and exploring the routes taken by the words can lead us on fascinating journeys. How to Read a Word, written by the noted lexicographer Elizabeth Knowles, shows us how to explore the origins, associations... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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