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Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning  Publisher Comments If you don't know your stuff, you don't know your world. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things takes you to the places and people you touch every day-when you sip your coffee, tie your shoes, click your mouse, or step on the gas. Once you follow a...
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Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (94 Edition)
by Jean Chevalier Publisher Comments A bestseller in France, where it was originally published, this supremely erudite book draws together folkloric, literary, and artistic sources and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every color, number, sound, gesture, expression, or character trait...
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
by David Graeber Publisher Comments andldquo;If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does...
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Conformity & Conflict Readings 12TH Edition
by James P Spradley Publisher Comments 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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One River : Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest (96 Edition)
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in...
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Fragments of Anarchist Anthropology (04 Edition)
by David Graeber Publisher Comments Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy--everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis...
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The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges...
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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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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
by David Graeber Publisher Comments This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in...
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence Mckenna 
Powells.com Staff Pick McKenna starts his radical revision of human evolution by positing the theory that we evolved from apes to humans because of brain changes brought about by ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms. This was, in his opinion, the birth of...
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions...
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
Publisher Comments The author of "Art & Physics" now offers "a fascinating account of the evolution of our male and female ways of knowing" (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of" Women Who Run with the Wolves"). 35 illustrations....
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Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras
by Adrienne Pine Publisher Comments Honduras is violent. Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas--violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora)...
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Ancient Futures
by Helen Norberg-hodge Publisher Comments This gripping portrait of the rapidly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh - the Western Himalayan land known as "Little Tibet" - offers crucial lessons in sustainable development as its people attempt to balance growth and technology with cultural...
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Ten Theories of Human Nature (4TH 04 Edition)
by Leslie Forster Stevenson Publisher Comments Over three previous editions, Ten Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. This thoroughly revised fourth edition features substantial new chapters on...
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Violence and the Sacred
by Rene Girard Publisher Comments This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony....
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Empires of Time Calendars Clocks & Cultu
by Anthony Aveni Synopsis Humanity has always felt a powerful need to impose scale and order on that most elusive and transient of elements: time. But what ends do our clocks and calenders really serve?...
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Savage Mind (66 Edition)
by Claude Levi-strauss Publisher Comments "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review" "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments With warmth and candor, bestselling author Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in the world's most heralded school systems. Through his unique perspective, he demystifies contemporary Japanese life. Index....
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Mother Nature : Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species (99 Edition)
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Publisher Comments Maternal instinct -- the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children -- has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned...
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