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Veiled Sentiments : Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society ((Rev)99 Edition) by Lila Abu-lughod Publisher Comments Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C Dennett Publisher Comments In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of andlt;Iandgt;The Boston Globeandlt;/Iandgt; calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Study of Human Nature: a Reader (2ND 00 Edition) by Leslie Stevenson Publisher Comments Now in a new edition, this exceptional anthology provides an introduction to a wide variety of views on human nature. Drawing from diverse cultures over three millennia, Leslie Stevenson has chosen selections ranging from ancient religious texts to... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $36.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture (12 - Old Edition) by Lisa Gezon Publisher Comments McGraw-Hill conducted extensive research to gain insight into students study behavior and instructor needs. We learned that students want visual appeal and content designed according to the way they learn, while instructors need a way to engage their... (read more) List Price $118.25 Your price: $70.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Biological Anthropology (6TH 10 - Old Edition) by Michael Park Publisher Comments This concise introduction to biological anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. Emphasizing themes and theories, the text presents facts as supportive evidence rather than... (read more) Your price: $166.70 New - Trade Paper
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Anthropology of Space and Place (03 Edition) by Setha Low Publisher Comments Over the last two decades anthropologists have drawn on insights from ethnographic inquiry to challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. Their efforts have led to an understanding that both the conceptual and material dimensions of... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments The legacy ofthe sacred feminine The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It showsthat warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologicallyordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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With His Pistol in His Hand : a Border Ballad and Its Hero (58 Edition) by Amoco Paredes Publisher Comments Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Harukos World by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeology: Down To Earth (4TH 10 - Old Edition) by Robert L. Kelly Publisher Comments This new brief edition pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names--David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History and Robert L. Kelly of the University of Wyoming. The authors' passionate, down-to-earth introduction to archaeological... (read more) List Price $153.45 Your price: $103.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner Publisher Comments This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski's classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century, provides a balanced view of the society from a male and female perspective, including coverage of new... (read more) List Price $72.75 Your price: $46.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirrors : America As a Foreign Culture (3RD 02 Edition) by Phillip R. Devita Publisher Comments Anthropology has a long history of the other, yet we can look right here at home for the strangeness we seek. We often neglect to ask the questions that reveal our own culture's underlying value and beliefs. In this volume, we bring the American culture... (read more) List Price $80.95 Your price: $65.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Culture by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Use and Abuse of Biology : an Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology (76 Edition) by Marshall D. Sahlins Synopsis A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Purity and Danger : an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (02 Edition) by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments In "Purity and Danger" Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun (98 Edition) by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics : Mental Illness in Rural Ireland ((Rev)01 Edition) by Nancy Scheper-hughes Publisher Comments "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."Conor Cruise O... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry Ortner Publisher Comments "Sherry Ortner's Life and Death on Mt. Everest is a stunning book: it is a probing ethnography of the strange, unequal relationship between 'sahibs' and Sherpas, a suggestive social history of the contemporary leisure class, and a powerful, often painful... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introduction To the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (07 Edition) by Kathryn Bard Publisher Comments An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt is a comprehensive overview of Egyptian archaeology skillfully organized to guide the reader from Egypt's prehistoric past through the pharaonic dynasties and the Greco-Roman Period.... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $39.00 Used - Trade Paper
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