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Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Publisher Comments From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Becoming Mexipino by Jr. Guevarra, Rudy P. Publisher Comments Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California from 1900 to 1965. Rudy Guevarra traces their earliest interactions under Spanish... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price: $63.90 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Decolonizing Anthropology, 3rd edition: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for Liberation by Faye V Harrison Publisher Comments provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology. American Ethnologistgroundbreaking The Teachers College RecordDECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Publisher Comments "We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives."... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins by Clark Larsen Publisher Comments With the same unparalleled art and inquiry-based pedagogy as the best-selling Our Origins, Essentials of Physical Anthropologyis the ideal text for focusing students" attention on what really matters and why. Author Clark Larsen, one of the world"s... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Dreams That Matter by Amira Mittermaier Publisher Comments Based on the author's dissertation (Columbia University).... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market by Rachel Black Publisher Comments Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $48.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology by Clark Spencer Larsen Publisher Comments With an unparalleled art program, Our Origins is an accessible, up-to-date text that focuses on anthropology's big questions and the scientific process. A leader in the field and an experienced teacher, Clark Larsen focuses not on encyclopedic details... (read more) Your price: $52.86 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town by Nir Avieli Publisher Comments Rice Talks explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everydaysocial life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for itsexceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highlypersonal account, Nir... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $19.52 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Why China Will Never Rule the World by Troy Parfitt Publisher Comments After having lived in Taipei for ten years, Troy Parfitt sets out on an epic journey to test the theory that China is ascending toward a position of global hegemony. The result is whirlwind tour of the Chinese world, one that enlightens, astonishes, and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The War of the Sexes by Paul Seabright Publisher Comments As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia Publisher Comments Timely, disturbing, and luminously written, The Pastoral Clinic is anthropology at its best, bringing into view a devastating piece of reality, highlighting larger processes and human singularities, and calling for a new public and ethics of care. Joo... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd Publisher Comments 'Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk\"s modern presentation of genetics and observable behaviors in living humans and non-human primates moves beyond merely describing anthropological finds to showing students the \'big picture\' ideas behind human evolution... (read more) Your price: $52.86 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Stone Age Economics by Marshall David Sahlins Publisher Comments Originally published: Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972.... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Visual Cultures by James Elkins Publisher Comments Visual Culturesis the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, featuring authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge by George Stocking Publisher Comments The relation of anthropology to colonialism and imperialism became a burning issue for anthropologists in the mid-1960s. As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America by David J. Rothman Publisher Comments C"onscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America'... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India by Susan Seizer Publisher Comments A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilnadu. Held in towns and villages throughout the region... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Local Histories/Global Designs by Walter D. Mignolo Publisher Comments This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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