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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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Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mikey Walsh Publisher Comments An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Village in the Vaucluse 3RD Edition by Laurence Wylie Publisher Comments Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his study of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Honour, Family and Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community by J K Campbell Review "Excellent text for the study of kinship."--Elisha Renne, New York University... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities by Susan G. Drummond Book News Annotation Employing methods of both comparative law and legal anthropology, Drummond (law, York U.) explores the marriage law practiced by Rom people in southern Spain during the 1990s. Within sections on state, culture, and marriage, she discusses such aspects... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Seventh Man (10 Edition) by John Berger Publisher Comments Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by John J Winkler Publisher Comments John Winkler's work is concerned with understanding men's and women's lives in the ancient world. Drawing on the new anthropological approaches increasingly popular since the emergence of Foucault, Winkler offers six windows on ancient Greek gender. The... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Life of a Simple Man by Emile Guillaumin Publisher Comments A classic in France, this moving first-person story can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians of 19th-century French peasant life.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures) by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made,... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics (Series in Contemporary Ethnography) by Lawrence J Taylor Publisher Comments Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism.Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany by H Glenn Penny Publisher Comments In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anthropology and Anthropologists; The Modern British School by Adam Kuper Publisher Comments When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions and filled an awning gap in the market for introductory texts to social... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (Contemporary Ethnography) by Rebecca Bryant Publisher Comments On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe (Selections from Quaderni Storici) by Edward Muir Publisher Comments "An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory... In essence these historians begin their analysis from below, ' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history."--Catholic Historical Review... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf Publisher Comments Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, Europe and the People Without History deftly explores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. In this foundational text about the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism by Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee Publisher Comments Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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History of Anthropology #8: Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition by George W Stocking Publisher Comments Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood Among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Rane Willerslev Publisher Comments This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Corsican Fragments : Difference, Knowledge, and Fieldwork (10 Edition) by Matei Candea Synopsis The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Today, Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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