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Veiled Sentiments : Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society ((Rev)99 Edition)
Veiled Sentiments : Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society ((Rev)99 Edition)
by Lila Abu-lughod
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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)

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by Daniel C Dennett
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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)

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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by Erving Goffman
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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)

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Study of Human Nature: a Reader (2ND 00 Edition)
Study of Human Nature: a Reader (2ND 00 Edition)
by Leslie Stevenson
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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)

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Culture (12 - Old Edition)
Culture (12 - Old Edition)
by Lisa Gezon
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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)

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Biological Anthropology (6TH 10 - Old Edition)
Biological Anthropology (6TH 10 - Old Edition)
by Michael Park
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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)

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Anthropology of Space and Place (03 Edition)
Anthropology of Space and Place (03 Edition)
by Setha Low
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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)

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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler
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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)

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With His Pistol in His Hand : a Border Ballad and Its Hero (58 Edition)
With His Pistol in His Hand : a Border Ballad and Its Hero (58 Edition)
by Amoco Paredes
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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)

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Harukos World
Harukos World
by Gail Lee Bernstein
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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)

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Archaeology: Down To Earth (4TH 10 - Old Edition)
Archaeology: Down To Earth (4TH 10 - Old Edition)
by Robert L. Kelly
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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)

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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
by Annette B. Weiner
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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)

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Distant Mirrors : America As a Foreign Culture (3RD 02 Edition)
Distant Mirrors : America As a Foreign Culture (3RD 02 Edition)
by Phillip R. Devita
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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)

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Beyond Culture
Beyond Culture
by Edward T Hall
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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)

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Use and Abuse of Biology : an Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology (76 Edition)
Use and Abuse of Biology : an Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology (76 Edition)
by Marshall D. Sahlins
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A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists... (read more)

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Purity and Danger : an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (02 Edition)
Purity and Danger : an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (02 Edition)
by Mary Douglas
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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)

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From Black Land To Fifth Sun (98 Edition)
From Black Land To Fifth Sun (98 Edition)
by Brian M. Fagan
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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)

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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics : Mental Illness in Rural Ireland ((Rev)01 Edition)
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics : Mental Illness in Rural Ireland ((Rev)01 Edition)
by Nancy Scheper-hughes
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"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)

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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
by Sherry Ortner
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"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)

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Introduction To the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (07 Edition)
Introduction To the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (07 Edition)
by Kathryn Bard
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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)

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