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Shadows of War (04 Edition)
by Carolyn Nordstrom  Publisher Comments Violence, power and international profiteering in the twenty-first century....
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Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man : a Study in Terror and Healing (87 Edition)
by Michael Taussig Publisher Comments Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative...
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Ancient Maya (6TH 06 Edition)
by Robert J. Sharer Publisher Comments "The Ancient Maya is the definitive statement for our current understanding of their time and place. It goes well beyond any other competing volume in its encompassing reach."—Journal of Anthropological Research “(T)he most comprehensive and...
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
by Gregory Bateson Publisher Comments Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will...
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Guns, Germs and Steel - With New Forward ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new...
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Archaeological Theory : an Introduction (99 Edition)
by Matthew Johnson Publisher Comments This is a lively overview of the major ideas and concepts in archaeological theory....
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald Johanson Publisher Comments When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today....
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The History of Money
by Jack Weatherford Publisher Comments From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, "The History of Money" explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to...
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Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Walter D. Mignolo Publisher Comments This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo...
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Race and the Enlightenment : a Reader (97 Edition)
by Emmanuel C. Eze Publisher Comments Emmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced....
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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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Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
by Ching Kwan Lee Publisher Comments This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and...
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Poeple Watching the Desmond Morris Guide To Bo
by Desmond Morris Publisher Comments A revised and updated edition of "Manwatching", containing new material which incorporates the text of "Bodywatching". 2 x 16pp plate sections....
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Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (Cultures of History)
by Ahmad H. (edt) Sa'di Synopsis For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the...
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The Cultural Nature of Human Development
by Barbara Rogoff Publisher Comments Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with...
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Fieldwork Under Fire
by Carolyn Nordstrom Publisher Comments "Required reading for anyone about to leave for the field. . . . A timely, deserving, and original contribution to a rapidly growing body of literature on the study of violence."--Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason...
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A Writer's House in Wales
by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Jan Morris’s home between the sea and the mountains in the remote...
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Trail of Bones: More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist
by Mary H Manhein Publisher Comments A fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and an expert on the human skeleton, Mary H. Manhein assists law enforcement officials across the country in identifying bodies and solving criminal cases. In Trail of Bones, Manhein reveals the...
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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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Excursions
by Michael Jackson Publisher Comments A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African diaspora in southeast London. The anthropologist Michael...
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