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The Dwellers on the Nile
by E A Wallis Budge  Publisher Comments Beginning with a history of ancient Egypt, the author then discusses daily life of the people, examines the Egyptian family and school, furniture, jewelry, food and drink, work and play; the Egyptian religion, medicine, much mmore.<BR>...
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To Hunt in the Morning
by Janet Siskind Review "An excellent ethnography, good as a reader for an introductory course as well as courses on South American Indians, Cultural Ecology, or even Writing Ethnography. Her description is dynamic and her people are very alive--few ethnographers manage to...
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Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction
by Alan Gardiner Publisher Comments The mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the wonderland of the Pharaohs, have always held the world in awe. This volume provides a com-prehensive history of this fascinating land from its earliest days to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. Sir Alan...
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Remotely Global : Village Modernity in West Africa (99 Edition)
by Charles Piot Publisher Comments AcknowledgmentsNote on Kabre Orthography1. Introduction2. History: From the Black Atlantic to the Banality of Power3. Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire4. Persons: Engendering Subjects, Spectacular Rituals5. Houses: Collapsing...
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Plain Talk and Common Sense from the Black Avenger
by Ken Hamblin Publisher Comments A compelling, provocative look at the issues that have Americans talking and debating, from one of America's most controversial and popular talk-radio hosts. Ken Hamblin is one of the most popular radio talk-show hosts in America, with a daily audience...
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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
by Virginia Morell Publisher Comments looks different". says The New York Times Book Review. This fascinating biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. Includes 50...
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Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by David G Horn Publisher Comments Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "vitality" of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological...
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Coming of Age in Samoa (Perennial Classics)
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.<P>...
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The Reckoning Heart: An Anthropologist Looks at Her Worlds
by Manisha Roy Publisher Comments What exactly is the tenuous connection between an individual and culture? When does a culturaltradition cease to offer security to its members and instead becomes so confining that one must protest or rebel to survive as an individual? These issues...
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A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World
by Carol Ann Bassett Publisher Comments Drawing on her wide-ranging travels, from the Canadian Arctic to southern Chile, and from the Kalahari to the deserts of the American Southwest, Carol Ann Bassett takes readers on an intimate journey into the communities, ceremonies, and lives of...
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Dobe Ju Hoansi 2ND Edition
by Richard B Lee Publisher Comments This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage...
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The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes
by Edmundo Morales Book News Annotation Sociologist (West Chester U., Pennsylvania) Morales travels back to his homeland in the Andes to capture the changes and continuities in the traditional uses of the guinea pig (or cuy) in his culture. Abundant and fascinating b&w photographs...
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Fieldworker & the Field Problems & Chall
by Mysore Nar Srinivas Publisher Comments This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences of...
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Letters from the Field, 1925-1975
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneIntroductionThese letters from the field are one record, a very personal record, of what it has meant to be a practicing anthropologist over the last fifty years.Field work is only one aspect of any anthropologist's experience and the...
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Very Short Introductions #10: Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
by Paul G Bahn Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume...
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New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation--Manus, 1928-1953
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneIntroductionIn each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those...
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Discoveries: Human Origins (Discoveries)
by Herbert Thomas Publisher Comments The most basic question of existence--where did Homo sapiens come from?--remains one of the most intriguing. With an emphasis on fascinating new research, this enlightening, authoritative, and easy-to-read book describes more than 2,000 years of thinking...
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Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be Solved
by Charles W Nuckolls Publisher Comments French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this ground-breaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such...
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Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns (Comparative Studies of New Nations Ser)
by Clifford Geertz Publisher Comments In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the...
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War of Witches PB
by Timothy J Knab Publisher Comments An overheard plot to do away with an unwanted son-in-law begins this mesmerizing and astonishing journey into the Aztec underworld—a world of magical dreams and mysterious healing, shadowed by a deadly justice.Aided by two local curanderos, or...
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