Cultural Anthropology
There are 6477 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 New: $104.25 Hardcover 
add to wish list |
|
Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory
by Jamilah Ahmed  Publisher Comments Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography....
|
||||||
New: $27.95 Hardcover 
available October 2008 add to wish list |
|
Showa Japan: The Post-War Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy
by Hans Brinckmann Publisher Comments Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan's recent history. Today...
|
||||||
New: $28.50 Trade Paper List Price $29.75
add to wish list |
|
The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe
by Philip S. Gorski Publisher Comments What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the...
|
||||||
Used: $32.00 Trade Paper List Price $42.00
add to wish list |
|
Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi (00 Edition)
by Christopher J. Olsen Publisher Comments This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and...
|
||||||
New: $29.50 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age
by Dominic Pettman Publisher Comments Can love really be considered another form of technology? Dominic Pettman says it can?although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the ?human? in the information age. Using the writings of such important...
|
||||||
Sale: $8.98 Hardcover List Price $21.00
add to wish list |
|
Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
by Betty Mindlin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284)....
|
||||||
New: $36.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Contemporary Native American Communities #10: Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State
by Duane (edt) Champagne Publisher Comments Champagne and his coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. In the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala, they show how indigenous...
|
||||||
New: $76.00 Hardcover List Price $95.00
add to wish list |
|
Culture and Customs of the United States [Two Volumes] (Culture and Customs of North America)
by Benjamin F. Shearer Publisher Comments Explore one of the world's most fascinating, unique, and extraordinary cultures: our own! As a special two-volume set, Culture and Customs of the United States depicts the full montage of American contemporary life by not only studying our past, but by...
|
||||||
New: $57.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The European Union
by Chris Rumford Publisher Comments The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded societies towards a "sociology beyond societies," capable of...
|
||||||
New: $44.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cultural Margins #06: Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
by Neil Lazarus Publisher Comments A major re-appraisal of debates on politics and culture in postcolonial and cultural studies....
|
||||||
New: $95.75 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation
by Samuel Martinez Publisher Comments Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite...
|
||||||
New: $44.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis
by Stella (edt) Bruzzi Publisher Comments From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography,...
|
||||||
New: $24.25 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy After the New Media
by David Norman Rodowick Publisher Comments "A stunning accomplishment in the theorization of the visual. By situating developments in photography, film, and digital media on multiple hinges between philosophy and history, France and Germany, and visual theory and practices, Rodowick delivers a...
|
||||||
New: $33.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Aboriginal Sydney
by Book News Annotation Part guidebook and part social history, this volume describes 50 places of significance to Sydney's indigenous people. They include the locations of rock art, early contact and conflict, "civilizing experiments," civil rights actions and community...
|
||||||
Used: $14.00 Trade Paper List Price $27.95
add to wish list |
|
From Duty To Desire : Remaking Families in a Spanish Village (97 Edition)
by Jane Fishburne Collier Publisher Comments In the 1980s anthropologist Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia--where she and others had conducted field work 20 years earlier--to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern...
|
||||||
New: $30.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Resistance in an Amazonian Community
by L. Ziegler-otero Publisher Comments ... a good book ... clearly written ... that raises a number of important general issues relevant to the contemporary political, cultural and economic struggles of indigenous peoples of the Amazon and elsewhere. - Terence Turner, Cornell University Like...
|
||||||
New: $67.25 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
by John D. Niles Publisher Comments "A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text."--"Choice"...
|
||||||
Used: $20.00 Trade Paper List Price $30.25
add to wish list |
|
Los Dos Mundos : Rural Mexican Americans, Another America (94 Edition)
by Richard Baker Publisher Comments An ethnographic study of a small Idaho community with a large Mexican American population. Baker examines many dimensions of the impact race relations have on everyday life for rural Mexican Americans....
|
||||||
New: $210.75 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange: Essays in Greek Literature and Culture
by John Gould Publisher Comments The book contains the most significant essays--newly revised for this volume--written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years. These essays examine the myths, rituals, memory, and exchange of...
|
||||||
New: $27.25 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments "Gingrich has been a avid follower of de Waal's work for years. He has even placed de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among the Apes on his recommended reading list, along with better known texts such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S....
|
||||||
