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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D Putnam  
Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious...
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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race
by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered...
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Cultural Anthropology (7TH 08 Edition)
by Gary Ferraro Publisher Comments CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE is the most applied, contemporary and student-relevant cultural anthropology text on the market today. While providing all the key material traditionally taught in the introductory course, the book emphasizes...
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Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (88 Edition)
by James Clifford Publisher Comments The Predicament of Cultureis a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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Rumspringa : To Be Or Not To Be Amish (07 Edition)
by Tom Shachtman
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating look at the Amish tradition of "rumspringa," a period of months in each Amish teenager's life when they are permitted to participate in usually forbidden things: smoking, drinking, parties, cars, trendy clothes, music, and cell phones...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much--of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the...
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Conformity & Conflict Readings 12TH Edition
by James P Spradley Synopsis An ideal complement to standard anthropology texts or a stand-alone text/reader, "Conformity and Conflict" continues to offer an in-depth look at anthropology as a powerful way to study human behavior and events. The articles included in this reader...
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Elisa Burgos Debray Synopsis Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father....
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Subculture : the Meaning of Style (79 Edition)
by Dick Hebdige Synopsis Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks...
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Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City
by Richard D. Lloyd Synopsis A common sight in American cities today is the local bohemia, filled with hipsters, funky stores, picturesque dive bars, and aspiring artists. Yet not so long ago, these sorts of districts were relatively rare, and one had to travel to San Francisco or...
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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
by Helen E. Fisher Publisher Comments "Captivates the reader, answers all those puzzling questions that caused your mother (or priest or guidance counselor or gym teacher) to blame God and/or hormones....Her prediction of a more open and egalitarian order provides a compelling--and hopeful...
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...
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Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic
by Theodore Roszak Publisher Comments When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels--and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their...
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
by Tim Flannery
Publisher Comments Tim Flannery is a scientist of international standing, a world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and seven books to his credit. In Throwim Way Leg, he takes us into the field and on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this...
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual...
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Culture and Customs of Senegal (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Eric S. Ross Publisher Comments A blend of indigenous life in the rural countryside and metropolitan culture in urban centers, Senegal has been a small, yet prominent country on Africa's western coast. In this comprehensive study of contemporary Senegalese life, readers will learn how...
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
by Claudio Lomnitz Publisher Comments Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican...
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Anthropology and Modern Life (86 Edition)
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most...
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