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Third Chimpanzee the Evolution & Future
by Jared Diamond  Publisher Comments Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak...
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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....
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Black and White Styles in Conflict
by Thomas Kochman Publisher Comments "Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."—Marjorie Harness Goodwin...
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman....
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Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
by Loring M Danforth Publisher Comments "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first...
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10)
by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level...
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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.and#160; 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. Margaret Mead...
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From Beginning To End : the Rituals of Our Lives (95 Edition)
by Robert Fulghum Publisher Comments FROM BEGINNING TO END Why "rituals"? My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, have asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the...
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Shamanism (Quest Book)
by Shirley Nicholson Publisher Comments Jargon-free information about shamanism, ESP, dreams, and magical healing....
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Warrior Herdsmen: The Absorbing Chronicle of an Expedition to the Tribesmen of Northern Uganda
by Elizabeth M Thomas Synopsis The Dodoth- a tall, handsome people of the northern trip of Uganda- are a tribe transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read...
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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...
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Examines the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as cinema, fiction writing and opera....
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Language and Myth
by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more....
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People of the Sierra
by Julian Pitt Rivers Publisher Comments The People of the Sierra presents an engrossing account of the social structure of a rural community in Andalusia, the mountainous region of southern Spain. The author applies the principles of social anthropology, without recourse to jargon, to...
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Social and Cultural Anthropology : a Very Short Introduction (00 Edition)
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...
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In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
by David A Mcmurray Synopsis Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects...
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In the Arms of Africa :Turnbull
by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments What Margaret Mead did for Samoa, Colin Turnbull did for Africa. An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Turnbull’s life-long love affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and ‘70s. In an...
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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 more. 49 illustrations....
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out...
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On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well-Being Among the Batak of the Philippines
by James F Eder Synopsis The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the...
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