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The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies
by Jan Yoors  Publisher Comments Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and...
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children
by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from...
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Anthropology and Modern Life
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments Great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Biological and cultural inheritance; fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority; scientific basis for human individuality, much more. One of the most influential books of the century...
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The Rastafarians
by Leonard E Barrett Publisher Comments The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. < BR> < BR> < BR> Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians....
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Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
by Laren Stover 
Publisher Comments Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, its a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. Bohemian Manifesto explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor of a...
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From the Soil
by Fei Xiaotong Publisher Comments "A lucid and fascinating work about Chinese society and values. Fei's account of how China differs from the West is every bit as telling now as it was when this book was first published almost half a century ago."--Orville Schell "What are the...
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Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and...
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Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (97 Edition)
by Leah Hager Cohen Publisher Comments In this elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things, Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table at the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin....
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Africa Counts
by Claudia Zaslavsky Publisher Comments This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music,...
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Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture
by William H. Beezley Publisher Comments In this enlightening book, the well-known historian William Beezley contends that a Mexican national identity was forged during the nineteenth century not by a self-anointed elite but rather by a disparate mix of ordinary people and everyday events. In...
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Destination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (98 Edition)
by Barbara Kiishenblatt-gimblett Publisher Comments ""Destination Culture is a book of discovery. Reading it is to accompany Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett through fairs and museums, as a tourist and as an always sharp observer of people. The power of this book is to show how first-rate ethnographic work...
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them...
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Dobe Ju Hoansi 3RD 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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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong : Why We Love France But Not the French (03 Edition)
by Jean-benoit Nadeau Publisher Comments "Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal Decrypting French ideas about land, food, privacy, and...
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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
by Joan Cameron Bristol Publisher Comments The decline of the native population following the Spanish conquest of New Spain in 1521, among other factors, led to an increased demand for African slaves to add to the labor force and bolster the colonial economy. Approximately two hundred thousand...
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Humanistic Tradition, Book 4 : Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World (5TH 06 Edition)
by Gloria K. Fiero Publisher Comments "The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced...
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Best & the Brightest 20TH Anniversary Edition
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times "[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search...
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Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture
by William Beezley Publisher Comments In this enlightening book, the well-known historian William Beezley contends that a Mexican national identity was forged during the nineteenth century not by a self-anointed elite but rather by a disparate mix of ordinary people and everyday events. In...
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
by Gregory Bateson Publisher Comments Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will...
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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago
by Nicholas De Genova Publisher Comments While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of...
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