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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
by Arturo Escobar  Publisher Comments How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third...
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Peripheral Visions
by Mary C. Bateson Publisher Comments Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to...
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The Material Life of Human Beings
by Publisher Comments Through a broad range of examples, the author demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life....
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The Other Side of Eden
by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments A brilliantly evoked journey into the core of human history and the destiny of the world's hunting peoples....
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The Gift
by Publisher Comments When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective....
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Headhunters' Encounter With God
by Len Newell Publisher Comments Nestled in the mountainous hinterlands of the Philippine Cordillera, the Ifugao people of Batad have lived for centuries, eking out a living in upland sweet potato fields and in the extensive rice terraces they carved out of the mountains. For many years,...
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Signifying Identities
by Anthony P. Cohen Synopsis "Signifying Identities" examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them...
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Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History
by Robert S. McElvaine Publisher Comments In this provocative reinterpretation of the human experience, noted historian Robert S. McElvaine bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and history to create a new approach he terms 'biohistory'. Here for the first time he presents a startlingly...
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Border Crossings
by Lucy Shahar Publisher Comments Border Crossings: American Interactions with Israelis, provides the first systematic analysis of American-Israeli cultural differences in commercial, bureaucratic, professional and social settings. Lucy Shahar and David Kurtz examine Israeli culture by...
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The God of the Witches
by Margeret Alice Murray Publisher Comments This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic...
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No Bone Unturned
by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in...
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the...
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Popularizing Anthropology
by Synopsis Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline."Popularizing Anthropology" unearths a submerged tradition within anthropology and reveals that, from the beginning, anthropologists have looked beyond the...
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Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
by Roy Rosenzweig Publisher Comments How do Americans use and understand the past? Rosenzweig and Thelen analyze results from a unique and comprehensive survey in which they polled 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and its continuing influence on their present as well as...
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Good Neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans, 2nd Edition
by John C. Condon Synopsis Rarely do books grow in importance in their subsequent editions. John Condon's Good Neighbors is one that increases in value for our times. This brief text does not deal exhaustively with all the facets of Mexican culture, but it does sort out and...
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Primitive Love And Love Stories
by Henry Theophilus Finck Publisher Comments It so happened that I began to collect notes for a paper on "How to Cure Love." It was at first intended merely as a personal experiment in emotional psychology. Afterward it occurred to me that such a sketch might be shaped into a readable magazine...
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Falun Gong in the United States: An Ethnographic Study
by Noah Porter Publisher Comments Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, has been described in many ways. It has been called qigong, one of many schools of physical exercises that aim at improving health and developing supernatural abilities. Scholars and mainstream media have referred it...
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Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
by Jon Entine Publisher Comments Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human...
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Consumption in Asia
by Beng-Huat Chua Publisher Comments This is the first book to analyse in detial consumerism in the region, and will be valuable reading for students and researchers in Asian studies, economics, politics and cultural studies....
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Our Inner Ape
by Frans, De Waal Synopsis From one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal...
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