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The Archaeology of Shamanism
by Neil S. (edt) Price  Publisher Comments In this timely collection, Neil Price brings together recent archaeological thought on shamanism. Issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism...
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Study of Ethnomusicology (Rev 06 Edition)
by Bruno Nettl Publisher Comments A landmark in ethnomusicology, expanded and...
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Unspeakable Love : Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East (06 Edition)
by Brian Whitaker Publisher Comments Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Arab countries. Clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, while newspapers write cryptically of shameful acts. Although many parts of the world now accept sexual diversity, the Middle East is moving in the opposite...
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Skin: A Natural History
by Nina G. Jablonski Publisher Comments We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch...
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Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology (3RD 07 Edition)
by Robert Lavenda Publisher Comments This very concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology is designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their...
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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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Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power
by Roberto J Gonzalez Publisher Comments Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general...
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Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture (95 Edition)
by Paul R. Abramson Publisher Comments In this multidisciplinary study of human sexuality, an international team of scholars looks at the influences of nature and nurture, biology and culture, and sex and gender in the sexual experiences of humans and other primates. Using as its center the...
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Subject of Anthropology
by Henrietta Moore Publisher Comments This new book draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Written not just for professional scholars and for students but for anyone with a serious interest...
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The Silent Language
by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments In print for nearly forty years and with more than one million copies sold, this classic work "shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, without his knowledge" (Erich Fromm)....
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Interaction Ritual : Essays in Face-to-face Behavior (67 Edition)
by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual...
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The Rituals of Dinner: Visser, Margaret
by Margaret Visser Publisher Comments With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly...
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Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
by Charles Stewart Publisher Comments Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place....
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The Alchemy & the Agony: Sacred Art & Tattoos
by M Young Book News Annotation A long-time student of Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, Young presents photographs of tattoo images from popular sources of Hindi, Buddhist, and Christian iconography as interpreted by southern California tattoo artist Aaran Funk and Arizona...
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The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders
by Madhusree Mukerjee Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index....
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
by Elizabeth Ma Thomas Publisher Comments Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer...
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With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today
by Daniel Rothenberg Publisher Comments With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices--workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes...
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Social Life of Things : Commodities in Cultural Perspective (86 Edition)
by Arjun (ed.) Appadurai Publisher Comments The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in...
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New Departures in Anthropology #1: Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip
by Pamela J. Stewart Publisher Comments N"ew Departures in anthropology focuses on emerging themes in social and cultural anthropology. With original perspectives and syntheses, authors introduce new areas of inquiry in anthropology, explore developments that cross disciplinary boundaries, and...
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust
by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Publisher Comments Intimate, humorous, and refreshingly candid, this extraordinary work is a remarkable record — in both words and images — of Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy. Mayer Kirshenblatt,...
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