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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald Johanson

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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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Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, & Modernity
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Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, & Modernity
by Laurel Kendall

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This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity...
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Linking To the Past : a Brief Introduction To Archaeology / With CD (04 - Old Edition)
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Linking To the Past : a Brief Introduction To Archaeology / With CD (04 - Old Edition)
by Kenneth L. Feder

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Featuring an innovative "hyperlink" format of interconnected ideas, anecdotes, and lessons, Connecting to the Past and its accompanying CD provide an exciting introduction to archaeology with an emphasis on practical issues. The book's engaging narrative...
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Flowerdew Hundred : the Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (93 Edition)
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Flowerdew Hundred : the Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (93 Edition)
by James Deetz

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Archaeologists James Deetz draws from fragments of pottery, broken weapons, and building stones the drama of our past- both its intimate domestic stories and its grand historical moments....
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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry (05 - Old Edition)
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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry (05 - Old Edition)
by Patricia C. Rice

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Presents biological anthropology and archaeology/prehistory as distinct areas using the most up-to-date citations to help students understand the discipline's issues and implications. Biological anthropology and archaeology/prehistory. Anyone who wishes...
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Anthropology : the Exploration of Human Diversity, With Living Anthropology Student - With CD (11TH 06 - Old Edition)
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Anthropology : the Exploration of Human Diversity, With Living Anthropology Student - With CD (11TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Conrad Phillip Kottak

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The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together...
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Reflections on Anthropology : a Four-field Reader (04 Edition)
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Reflections on Anthropology : a Four-field Reader (04 Edition)
by Katherine A. Dettwyler

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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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Social Fabric of Health : an Introduction To Medical Anthropology (02 Edition)
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Social Fabric of Health : an Introduction To Medical Anthropology (02 Edition)
by John Janzen

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This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as a whole, looks at cultural definitions of health to look at health itself - which means that it is not so much about healing/medicine as it is about the...
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Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology (04 - Old Edition)
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Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology (04 - Old Edition)
by Gary P. (ed.) Ferraro

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Practical and insightful, CLASSIC READINGS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Second Edition is a concise and accessible reader that presents a core selection of historical and contemporary works. Carefully edited by established author Dr. Gary Ferraro, this...
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Patterns of Culture (05 Edition)
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Patterns of Culture (05 Edition)
by Ruth Benedict

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"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in...
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Digging Through Darkness : Chronicles of an Archaeologist (95 Edition)
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Digging Through Darkness : Chronicles of an Archaeologist (95 Edition)
by Carmel Schrire

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In 'Digging Through Darkness, ' Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. Tracking the broad sweep of European expansion into Africa, Australia, and the Pacific, Schrire focuses on the evidence unearthed in archaeological sites,...
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Gaining Ground? : Evenkis, Land, and Reform in Southeastern Siberia (98 Edition)
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Gaining Ground? : Evenkis, Land, and Reform in Southeastern Siberia (98 Edition)
by Gail Fondahl

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For indigenous people, land is a critical determinant to cultural survival. the indigenous people of the Russian North currently struggle to gain greater control over their homelands against a backdrop of state reforms regarding land privatization...
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China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution
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China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution
by Sulamith Potter

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This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution of 1949. The authors examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers...
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by John Monaghan

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"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's...
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Life Exposed : Biological Citizens After Chernobyl (02 Edition)
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Life Exposed : Biological Citizens After Chernobyl (02 Edition)
by Adriana Petryna

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index....
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Fieldworking Reading & Writing Resea 3RD Edition
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Fieldworking Reading & Writing Resea 3RD Edition
by Bonnie Sto Sunstein

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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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Cultural Anthropology : Understanding Ourselves and Others, With Free Powerweb (5TH 02 Edition)
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Cultural Anthropology : Understanding Ourselves and Others, With Free Powerweb (5TH 02 Edition)
by Richley H. Crapo

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Rather than present Cultural Anthropology as an encyclopedic array of somewhat unrelated facts, this highly successful text focuses on the relationships between these discrete facts, consistently explaining them within the broader context--as individual...
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Social Meaning of Money (97 Edition)
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Social Meaning of Money (97 Edition)
by Viviana A. Zelizer

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"Zelizer has a genius for detecting hidden order in everyday practices.... Gently but firmly she uses her discoveries to overturn widespread beliefs in the power of money to corrupt, standardize, and depersonalize social ties. Best of all, she writes of...
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The spiral road :change in a Chinese village through the eyes of a Communist Party leader
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The spiral road :change in a Chinese village through the eyes of a Communist Party leader
by Shu-min Huang

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The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in southeast China describes in this book nearly fifty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants...
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How To Do Archaeology the Right Way (96 Edition)
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How To Do Archaeology the Right Way (96 Edition)
by Barbara A. Purdy

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Despite field conditions that often include bug bites, bad food, and nonexistent plumbing, legions of amateur archaeologists regularly take to the field - sometimes a muddy one - to dig up ceramic pots, animal bones, and stone spearheads. This book...
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