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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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Partner To the Poor (10 Edition) by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments "Paul Farmer is a deep scholar of Haitian society, a formidable medical anthropologist, an implacable theorist of structural violence and health as a human right, and an ethicist for whom the place of social justice in medicine and in the world is an... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 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 $54.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture by Philip 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 $72.20 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken Publisher Comments Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance — the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge by William A Haviland Publisher Comments Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of... (read more) List Price $201.95 Your price: $70.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Lives: Introduction To Archaeology and Prehistory (5TH 12 Edition) by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments Theory and Methods in Archaeology and Prehistory Written for complete beginners in a narrative style, Ancient Lives is aimed at introductory courses in archaeology and prehistory that cover archaeological methods and theory, as... (read more) List Price $136.80 Your price: $125.85 New - Trade Paper
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Stone Age Economics (72 Edition) by Marshall D. Sahlins Publisher Comments Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. As Marshall Sahlins stated in the first edition, It has been inspired by the possibility of 'anthropological economics, ' a perspective indebted rather to the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Exploring Prehistory: How Archaeology Reveals Our Past by Pam J Crabtree Publisher Comments This new introduction to archaeology integrates world prehistory with discussion of archeological methods and techniques. It introduces archaeological methods gradually and in context through the use of Archaeology in Practice boxes which give students a... (read more) List Price $160.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Human Bone Manual (05 Edition) by Tim White Publisher Comments Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $38.60 New - 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz Publisher Comments In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leopard's Tail (06 - Old Edition) by Ian Hodder Publisher Comments A dynamic firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history. Illustratsd with images of the art, the excavations, and the people involved in the world-famous dig, this book enhances our... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Past in Perspective (5TH 11 Edition) by Kenneth L. Feder Publisher Comments Ideal for introduction to archaeology and world prehistory courses, The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, Fifth Edition, is an engaging and up-to-date chronological introduction to human prehistory. Kenneth L. Feder introduces... (read more) List Price $109.25 Your price: $68.00 Used - 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 $60.95 Your price: $43.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mother Nature : Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species (99 Edition) by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Publisher Comments Maternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 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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Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research by Bonnie Sto Sunstein Publisher Comments FieldWorking, Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater's acclaimed textbook, is an engaging guide to the fundamentals of ethnographic study, complete with practical help for research and writing. Emphasizing civic responsibility and community... (read more) List Price $45.65 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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World of Babies : Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies (00 Edition) by Judy S. (ed.) Deloache Publisher Comments Are babies divine, or do they have the devil in them? Should parents talk to their infants, or is it a waste of time? Answers to questions about the nature and nurture of infants appear in this book as advice to parents in seven world societies. Imagine... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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