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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony  Publisher Comments Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now...
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Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog)
by Tessa M. Pollard Publisher Comments As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into...
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
by Anna Lowenhau Tsing Publisher Comments ""Friction" is not only an engrossing display of ethnographic reports on the destruction of Kalimantan forests and local attempts to resist it. The book also proposes a highly original perspective of the global thrust of capital. Anna Tsing is at best...
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Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and...
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Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
by Stewart Ell Guthrie Publisher Comments Religion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion...
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments In a profoundly optimistic book, anthropologist Bateson takes readers on a fascinating journey to exotic settings--from a Persian garden to an Israeli youth movement, from a Philippine village to a bus full of Tibetan monks--to show the wealth of meaning...
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Body, Self, and Society : the View From Fiji (95 Edition)
by Anne E. Becker Publisher Comments In Body, Self, and Society Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and...
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental...
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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
by Tom Boellstorff Publisher Comments Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts...
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Death and the Regeneration of Life
by Maurice Bloch Publisher Comments It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon in the light of new information from China, India,...
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Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (97 Edition)
by Leah Hager Cohen Publisher Comments In this elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things, Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table at the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin....
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Environment in Anthropology : Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living (03 Edition)
by Nora Haenn Publisher Comments "[A] solid demonstration of the contributions of anthropology to understanding and developing solutions to environmental problems." —Environmental Conservation The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from...
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Cosmic Serpent : Dna and the Origins of Knowledge (98 Edition)
by Jeremy Narby 
Publisher Comments A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune...
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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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Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog)
by Tessa M. Pollard Publisher Comments As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into...
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Transnational Villagers (01 Edition)
by Peggy Levitt Publisher Comments Contrary to popular opinion, increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the United States. The Transnational Villagers offers a detailed,...
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Fieldworking : Reading and Writing Research (3RD 07 Edition)
by Bonnie Stone Sunstein Publisher Comments FieldWorking, Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater's acclaimed textbook, is an engaging guide to the fundamentals of ethnographic study, complete with practical help for research and writing. Emphasizing civic responsibility and community...
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Bollingen Series #84: Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen
by J J Bachofen Publisher Comments A pioneer of the idea of a transcendental mythical content present in all societies, Bachofen was deeply concerned with the inner life and how it is expressed in symbolic terms....
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Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
by Mark Padilla Publisher Comments Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume...
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Rites of Passage (61 Edition)
by Arnold Van Gennep Publisher Comments Birth, puberty, marriage, and death are, in all cultures, marked by ceremonies which may differ but are universal in function. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to...
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