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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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Geisha
by Liza Dalby Publisher Comments "Liza Dalby knows more about the subject than I'll ever know, and she writes about it with grace and eloquence."--Arthur Golden, author of "Memoirs of a...
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On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine
by Roland (edt) Littlewood Publisher Comments This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and...
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My Cocaine Museum
by Michael Taussig Publisher Comments In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the...
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Men : Evolutionary and Life History (06 Edition)
by Richard G. Bribiescras Publisher Comments Males account for roughly 50 percent of the global population, but in America and other places, they account for over 85 percent of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of death in human males shows that mortality is high immediately following birth...
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Violence in War and Peace : an Anthology (03 Edition)
by Nancy Scheper-hughes Publisher Comments From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject," Violence in War and...
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Fashion As Communication (2ND 02 Edition)
by Malcolm Barnard Publisher Comments What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm...
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The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
by Charlene E Makley Publisher Comments This wide-ranging, keenly observed study provides a groundbreaking account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of...
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The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village
by Yunxiang Yan Publisher Comments A study of the gift-giving and related social activities which pervade daily life in Chinese village society....
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Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human
by Chip Walter Publisher Comments “A fluid introduction to the development of the human species.”—Booklist Among the countless traits and behaviors that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, six stand out—our big toe, opposable thumb, oddly shaped...
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San'ya Blues : Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo (96 Edition)
by Edward Fowler Publisher Comments Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed...
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Introduction To Human Evolutionary Anatomy (90 Edition)
by Leslie Aiello Publisher Comments An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and...
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The Sambia: Ritual, Sexuality, and Change in Papua New Guinea (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Gilbert Herdt Publisher Comments This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes rich material on initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including the United...
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Women, Family & Child Care in India: A World in Transition
by Susan C Seymour Publisher Comments Documents the lives of 24 families in India over almost thirty years....
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Discovering Our Past : a Brief Introduction To Archaeology (4TH 06 Edition)
by Wendy Ashmore Publisher Comments This brief, inexpensive introduction to the techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks of contemporary archaeology follows the same organizing principle as the text Archaeology: Discovering Our Past but features less detail. Archaeological methods...
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Beyond Relativism: Rethinking Comparability in Cultural Anthropology
by Robert C Hunt Synopsis This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena- social roles, forms of activities, institutions- across cultures....
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology (4TH 08 Edition)
by Endicott Publisher Comments This Fourth Edition of TAKING SIDES: ANTHROPOLOGY presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an...
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Kuru Sorcery : Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands (79 Edition)
by Shirley Lindenbaum Publisher Comments Kuru, a fatal neurological disease thought to be transmitted through cannibalism, is examined in the Fore, a New Guinea people afflicted with the disease, who believe it to be caused by sorcery. The author also discusses Fore beliefs about diagnosis and...
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