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The World Ahead
by Robert B. (edt) Textor  Publisher Comments Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects, for the first time, her...
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Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments 'Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo...
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Jepson Manual : Higher Plants of California (93 Edition)
by James C. Hickman Publisher Comments First published in 1925, Willis Linn Jepson's Manual of the Flowering Plants of California has been a standard reference for teachers, students, and naturalists. Since that time, hundreds of new species have been identified and botanical investigation...
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Global Problems and Culture of Capitalism (4TH 08 Edition)
by Richard H. Robbins Synopsis Provides the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism has generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve...
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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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Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (96 Edition)
by Ruth Behar 
Publisher Comments Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar proposes a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology--with the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling....
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Culture, Media, and Identities #02: Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall Publisher Comments This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'.</p> <p>Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social...
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence
by Patricia Hersch Publisher Comments For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture -- the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight...
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Before the Dawn : Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (06 Edition)
by Nicholas Wade Publisher Comments Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, this work by an acclaimed "New York Times" science reporter tells a provocative story of mankind's ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature....
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With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments Though many books have been written about the famous anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, none match the depth and intimacy of this classic memoir by their daughter. An illuminating portrait that throws new light on the couple's...
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African Origin of Civilization : Myth Or Reality (74 Edition)
by Cheikh Anta Diop Publisher Comments Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
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Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual
by Paul Raffaele Publisher Comments It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals travel writer Paul Raffaele journeys to the far corners of the globe to discover participants in this...
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The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics
by Jennifer Heath Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling-- of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects--has existed in countless cultures and religions from time...
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Cultural Resistance Reader (02 Edition)
by Stephen (ed.) Duncombe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-431)....
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My Cousin, My Husband: Clans and Kinship in Mediterranean Societies (Saqi Essentials)
by Germaine Tillion Publisher Comments In this classic work, Germaine Tillion argues that the phenomenon of men killing their daughters, sisters, and wives over matters of sexual honor is not an aberration specific to Islam. Rather, it is part of a pagan Mediterranean legacy of marriage...
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Anthropology of Religion (2ND 06 Edition)
by Fiona Bowie Publisher Comments Now available in a revised second edition, this popular introduction to the anthropology of religion combines discussion of the origin and development of debates within the field, with a look at where the subject is heading. Introduces readers to the...
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
by Robert Darnton Publisher Comments When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in...
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Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.)
by Marc Hauser Publisher Comments In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion...
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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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Asylums : Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (61 Edition)
by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments "Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the...
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