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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power : Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (02 Edition)
by Ann Laura Stoler  Publisher Comments Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural...
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First Farmers : Origins of Agricultural Societies (05 Edition)
by Peter Bellwood Publisher Comments First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world....
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Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji
by Karen J. Brison Book News Annotation The indigenous people of Fiji seem to be perfect subjects for ethnologies with the ulterior motive of showing how much better the natural, rural life is than that of the synthetic and urban. However, globalization has made sincere inroads into that...
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History of Anthropology #8: Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
by George W. (edt) Stocking Publisher Comments Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas...
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On the Order of Chaos Social Anthropolog
by Mark S Mosko Publisher Comments 'If you are looking for a book that preaches to you about restrictive budgets and financial diets, then don't buy this book. However, if you are looking for a friendly book that gives you hints, tips, ideas and various options for getting out of debt...
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Making Sense of Media : Key Texts in Media and Cultural Studies (05 Edition)
by Arthur Asa Berger Publisher Comments Making Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book....
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Classification and Human Evolution
by Sherwood L. Washburn Synopsis The names given to the variety of man-like fossils known to scientists should reflect no more than scientific views of the nature of human evolution. However, often in the past these names have also reflected confusion regarding the basic principles of...
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The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond (New Departures in Anthropology)
by Karin Barber Publisher Comments What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on...
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Linguistic Anthropology : Workbook and Reader (06 Edition)
by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer Publisher Comments Classic and contemporary exercises and readings are presented in the workbook/reader. They are chosen because of the way they illuminate or expand on the basic concepts introduced in the text, and they range from beginning to intermediate in skill level....
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Across Boundaries Belief
by Maxine K Weisgrau Publisher Comments In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and illustrated. The editors present these anthropological writings...
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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal...
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Dawn to Dusk: Folk Tales from Benin
by Iro Eweka Publisher Comments Dawn to Dusk is a collection of Edo (or Benin) folk tales: an oral history of Edo culture and tradition. It tells the story of how the ancient Edo conceived of the world and how they attempted both to explain the origins of their human existence on earth...
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Thinking Anthropologically: A Practical Guide for Students
by Philip Carl (edt) Salzman Publisher Comments This book focuses on nine themes that are at the heart of anthropology-themes that permeate all fields of anthropology, and that prepare learners to "think anthropologically" before beginning to study the field in any depth. KEY TOPICS Chapters written...
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Reading National Geographic
by Catherine A Lutz Publisher Comments For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine,...
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Ritual, History and Power
by Maurice Bloch Publisher Comments A collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.<BR>...
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Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations
by Akemi Kikumura Yano Publisher Comments Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to sharing the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The National Museum is a unique institution that operates in...
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Camphor Flame : Popular Hinduism and Society in India (Revised and Expanded) (Rev 04 Edition)
by C. J. Fuller Publisher Comments Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of...
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Bone Woman : a Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (04 Edition)
by Clea Koff Publisher Comments In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of...
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Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
by Vered (edt) Amit Publisher Comments In an increasingly globalized world, how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing? "Constructing the Field" gathers together diverse case studies from across North America and Europe to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary fieldwork...
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Civilization and Beyond
by Scott Nearing Synopsis An attempt to summarize an area of critical human concern....
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