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New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo
by Polly (edt) Schaafsma  Synopsis Ancestral Puebloan peoples inhabited the Pottery Mound site on New Mexico's Rio Puerco River from the late fourteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. Archaeologist Frank C. Hibben began excavating Pottery Mound fifty years ago, when archaeologists were...
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Anthropological Locations: Boundaries & Grounds Field Sci
by Akhil Gupta Publisher Comments Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are studying topics that resist geographical localization, this...
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Cultural Studies (92 Edition)
by Lawrence Grossberg Publisher Comments In seeking to map the ways in which reality is socially constructed, and to understand and evaluate the conditions of social life, the contributors to this book share a belief in the significance of struggles about gender, race, class, nation, and...
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Indigenous Religions: A Companion
by Graham Harvey Synopsis Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions. This Companion shows how much they can contribute to a richer understanding of human identity, action, and relationships.An international team of contributors discuss representative...
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Political Anthropology 2ND Edition
by Ted C Lewellen Publisher Comments Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. Significantly updated and expanded with extensive changes in...
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Fair Women, Dark Men: The Forgotten Roots of Racial Prejudice
by Peter Frost Publisher Comments Which came first, color prejudice or black slavery? Was it slavery that eventually created negative feelings toward dark skin? Or was it the other way around? Perhaps these feelings already existed when black slavery first arose, eventually making it...
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Challenges for Anthropology in the 'African Renaissance':: A Southern African Contribution
by Synopsis This book focuses on the events which gave rise to the fast-track land and resettlement programme in Zimbabwe, the political and economic outcomes for the country and the impact of this programme on the southern African region. It then presents...
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Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual Among the Giriama of Kenya (06 Edition)
by David J. Parkin Publisher Comments David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity....
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Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)
by M. Cameron Hay Publisher Comments An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people...
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Buried Soul : How Humans Invented Death (05 Edition)
by Timothy Taylor Publisher Comments The Buried Soul is a worldwide exploration of the rites and rituals of death. Timothy Taylor"s search spans all of human history and interweaves the author"s own experience of bewildering deaths. By combining cutting-edge science, personal insight, and...
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Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
by Alan Barnard Publisher Comments The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology provides a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline which discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference.<BR>Theory, ethnography and...
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Oxford Wessex Archaeology Monograph #1: A Slice of Rural Essex: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from the A120 Between Stansted Airport and Braintree
by Jane Et Al Timby Synopsis The upgrading of the A120 between Stansted Airport and Braintree allowed the unique opportunity to examine a slice of landscape crossing the clay plateau of Essex. A diverse pattern of human history was revealed including earlier prehistoric flint...
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Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice
by Niels (edt) Teunis Publisher Comments This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an...
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The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior
by Roy Ellen Publisher Comments Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the...
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The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease
by Robert Klitzman About the Author Dr. Robert Klitzman, currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, is the author of Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women with HIV, A Year-Long Night: Tales of A Medical...
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The Logic of Environmentalism
by Vassos Argyrou Book News Annotation The first in a new series of works of anthropology and ethnobiology, this work by Argyrou (social anthropology, U. of Hull, UK) interrogates environmentalism as a cultural paradigm that has come to replace the modernist paradigm. Tracing the...
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Humankind: A Brief History
by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments The discovery that the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is incredibly similar, sharing 98% of the same code, suggests that there is very little different--or special--about the human animal. Likewise, advances in artificial intelligence mean that humans no...
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Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships
by Richard W Bulliet Synopsis Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present....
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses from Around the World
by Frederick Franck Publisher Comments In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our...
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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
by Paul Smolensky Publisher Comments This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely...
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