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Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present : an Ecological Perspective (99 Edition)
by David J. Wilson  Publisher Comments Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a...
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Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction
by Brian Morris Publisher Comments In this important, scholarly, and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many...
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Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Life
by Victor Witter Turner Publisher Comments A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s.<BR>Originally published by Manchester University Press. <BR>Victor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the 'social drama', a method used...
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Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study in Social Evolution
by Edward Carpenter Publisher Comments Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk Study in Social Evolution BY EDWARD CARPENTER. Content INTRODUCTION Tart I The Intermediate in the Service of Religion Chapter I. As PROPHET OR PRIES-I - 15 II. As WIZARD OR WITCH 36 III. As INVENTORS OK THE ARTS...
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Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy
by Penny Van Esterik Publisher Comments A new milestone in the literature on development. . . . Essential (and enjoyable)reading for a broad range of individuals including all those concerned with urban and rural development . . .; professionals and academics in . . . health, sociology...
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by Lois W Banner Publisher Comments A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual...
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Questions of Cultural Identity
by Stuart (edt) Hall Publisher Comments Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities...
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
by Alan Walker Publisher Comments "Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer <BR>In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary:...
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World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Systems of Power (Wenner-Gren International Symposium)
by Gustavo Lins (edt) Ribeiro Publisher Comments Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the "provincial cosmopolitanism" of alternative anthropologies and the "metropolitan provincialism" of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting "world anthropologies" challenge the current panorama in which...
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An Archaeology of Capitalism (Social Archaeology)
by Matthew Johnson Publisher Comments "An Archaeology of Capitalism" offers an account of landscape and material culture from the later Middle Ages to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. (Archaeology)...
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The Politics of Egalitarianism; Theory and Practice.
by Jacqueline Solway Book News Annotation US and Canadian anthropologists demonstrate how political anthropologists address a range of problems that affect people throughout the world, drawing inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee. Their pivotal themes are the...
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Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology
by Richard A Shweder Publisher Comments Why do American children sleep alone instead of with their parents? Why do middle-aged Western women yearn for their youth, while young wives in India look forward to being middle-aged? In these provocative essays, one of the most brilliant advocates of...
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Beast and Man in India - A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the People
by John Lockwood Kipling Publisher Comments BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA A POPULAR SKETCH OF INDIAN ANIMALS IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE BY JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING, I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained I stand and look at them long...
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The Book of Were-Wolves. (Clear Print )
by Sabine Baring-gould Publisher Comments Clear print edition set in 13 pt Garamond for easy reading....
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Reflections on Anthropology : a Four-field Reader (04 Edition)
by Katherine A. Dettwyler About the Author Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr. joined the newly created Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Texas AandM University in 1971 as their first anthropologist. In the fall of 1971, Dr. Bryant began his tenure at Texas AandM University and taught the first...
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People and Nature : Introduction To Human Ecological Relations (06 Edition)
by Emilio F. Moran Publisher Comments This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining the evolving relations between human communities and nature....
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Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies #25: Putting Islam to Work
by Gregory Starrett Publisher Comments "A sound contribution to our knowledge of the uses of tradition and modernity by states, of the social life of Islamic texts, and of the historical roles of schooling in social change."--John Bowen, author of "Muslims through...
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Santeria Enthroned : Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-cuban Religion (03 Edition)
by David H. Brown Publisher Comments Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In Santería Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art...
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World-Systems Theory in Practice
by P. Nick Kardulias Publisher Comments In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and...
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Behavioral Anthropology
by Theodore D Graves Publisher Comments Behavioral Anthropology is a unique introductory text that combines an intellectual biography with an overview of the methodological principles of cross-cultural research. Each chapter deals with a specific methodological issue: research design; the role...
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