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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Monaghan Publisher Comments "If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents) by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments 'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige ...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk Publisher Comments Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies by John Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul by Ian Player Publisher Comments An engaging personal account of one environmentalist's remarkable friendship with a Zulu chief.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hedda Gabler by Ibsen Henrik Publisher Comments Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for realistic drama. During the Victorian era Ibsen's writings were considered scandalous. Hedda and Jurgen are aristocratic newlyweds who have just... (read more) Your price: $5.45 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The classic account of Egypt's most famous queennow fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson Publisher Comments When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The God of the Witches by Margeret Alice Murray Publisher Comments This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest by Francoise Heritier Publisher Comments The sharing of a sexual partner between relatives has always been taboo. In this stunning work, anthropologist Françoise Héritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history, from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes, and finds a... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Patterns of Culture by Ruth Fulto Benedict Publisher Comments "Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding Racial and Ethnic Groups by Vincent N Parrillo Publisher Comments A brief, economical introduction to the core theories, concepts, and issues for students studying race and ethnic relations in the United States.... (read more) List Price $67.90 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding Japanese society by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments This is a welcome new edition of this bestselling textbook. It provides a clear, accessible and readable introduction to Japanese society which does not require any previous knowledge of the country. Fully updated, revised and expanded, the 3rd edition... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Picturing Casablanca by Susan Ossman Publisher Comments In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Among the Ibos of Nigeria (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers) by G T Basden Publisher Comments Among the Ibos of Nigeria is the work of the British missionary George Basden. He lived with the Ibos for many years, recording the complexities of their culture at all stages in life, from childhood to the intricate rituals surrounding death, for his... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #1: Classificatory Particles in Kilivila by Gunter Senft Publisher Comments Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while... (read more) List Price $161.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel by David Grossman Publisher Comments Torn between conflicting identities -- Arabs in the eyes of Jews, and Israelis in the eyes of the Palestinians -- the Israeli Arabs live in a painful dilemma. Grossman's account of his personal journey into their world is the story of this painful... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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