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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational Marketing by Margaret Ellen Dorsey Publisher Comments A uniquely Tejano version of the old-fashioned political barbeque, the traditional South Texas pachanga allowed politicians to connect with voters in a relaxed setting where all could enjoy live music and abundant food and drink along with political... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Analysis of Burned Human Remains by Christopher W. Schmidt Publisher Comments This unique reference provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a... (read more) List Price $142.00 Your price: $136.68 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Above the Clouds by Takie Sugiyama Lebra Publisher Comments This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader by Alison K. Brown Publisher Comments This book brings together hitherto uncollected work on one of the most important developments in museology in the past century: collaborative research involving museums and members of ethnographic source communities, and the development of a new... (read more) Your price: $45.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane Publisher Comments Uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's booming economic growth.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain by Susana Narotzky Publisher Comments This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology by Bradley B. Walters Publisher Comments To rise to the increasingly urgent challenge of understanding the relationship between human beings and the environment, scholars need to step back and re-evaluate their basic premises about how current explanations should shape the form and content of... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $77.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity by Keith McMahon Publisher Comments For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $48.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity by Matthew Eric Engelke Publisher Comments "Christian theology has given to the human sciences at large hermeneutics as an interpretive science of meaning. This remarkable collection of essays by anthropologists turns a keen hermeneutic sensibility on Christian discourse and practice itself, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $25.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought: Narrative Themes in Comparative Context by George A. De Vos Publisher Comments Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought represents a major contribution, describing an empirically-validated method for analyzing the thematic content of narratives as a tool for comparative research in Anthropology, Cultural Psychology and... (read more) List Price $107.00 Your price: $102.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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