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Social Complexity in the Making
by  Publisher Comments A highly accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in New Guinea....
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Public Entrepreneurs: Agents for Change in American Government
by Mark Schneider Publisher Comments Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their...
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The Blood of the Serpent - Mexican Lives (ebook)
by Robert J. Stout Publisher Comments Today's Mexico is presented through the experiences, opinions and adventures of hundreds of Mexicans from all walks of life, forming a mosaic designed to perplex, provoke and entertain....
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Language and Solitude
by Ernest Gellner Publisher Comments Gellner's final book is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski....
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Peripheral Visions
by Mary C. Bateson Publisher Comments Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to...
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Among the Cannibals
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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Linguistic Anthropology
by Alessandro Duranti Publisher Comments An introduction to linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice....
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The Anthropology of Love and Anger
by Publisher Comments This unique work, draws on a close analysis of the egalitarian communal way some Amazonian peoples live to show how they produce and maintain a deeply cherished, tranquil and intimate life. The contributors reveal that (western) representations of these...
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Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
by Bobbi S. Low Publisher Comments Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges...
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Voice of Reason: Why the Left and Right Are Wrong
by Ronn Owens Publisher Comments Voice of Reason is a breath of fresh air in today's toxic political climate, offering a positive message in dark times: that with reason, common sense, and pragmatism, we can find common ground between all Americans-left, right, and center. If you're...
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The Aborigines Of Western Australia
by Albert F. Calvert Publisher Comments Many of our habits, doubtless, they refuse to imitate. They will cook their food on the embers, but object to boiling or steaming; most kinds of work they rather object to, but smoking and drinking are of course readily acquired. Praiseworthy efforts...
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Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America
by Nicola Beisel Publisher Comments Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraceptive devices, information on the sexual...
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Chinese Culture, Western Culture
by Tai P Ng Publisher Comments China is emerging front and center on the global economic stage as a new member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shanghai will host Expo 2010. Moreover, China is...
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Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money
by Robert Wuthnow Publisher Comments The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow--not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that...
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Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos
by Christophe Boesch Publisher Comments A fascinating text describing the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees and bonobos (the pygmy chimpanzee)....
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Priests, Witches and Power
by Maia Green Publisher Comments This book discusses in a historical context how Christianity has been adopted in Southern Tanzania....
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The Perception of the Environment
by Publisher Comments An integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments....
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Grasping the Changing World
by Vaclav Hubinger Publisher Comments Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and...
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Headhunters' Encounter With God
by Len Newell Publisher Comments Nestled in the mountainous hinterlands of the Philippine Cordillera, the Ifugao people of Batad have lived for centuries, eking out a living in upland sweet potato fields and in the extensive rice terraces they carved out of the mountains. For many years,...
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Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History
by Robert S. McElvaine Publisher Comments In this provocative reinterpretation of the human experience, noted historian Robert S. McElvaine bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and history to create a new approach he terms 'biohistory'. Here for the first time he presents a startlingly...
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