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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
by Arturo Escobar  Publisher Comments How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third...
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Making Democracy Work
by Robert D. Putnam Synopsis This text offers empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Its focus is on an experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions....
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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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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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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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The Other Side of Eden
by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments A brilliantly evoked journey into the core of human history and the destiny of the world's hunting peoples....
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The Gift
by Publisher Comments When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective....
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Power to Harm
by John Cornwell Publisher Comments "On September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker entered a Louisville, Kentucky printing plant and shot twenty people with an automatic rifle before turning the gun on himself. Wesbecker had been severely depressed and was taking Prozac, and the families of the...
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Signifying Identities
by Anthony P. Cohen Synopsis "Signifying Identities" examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them...
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The God of the Witches
by Margeret Alice Murray Publisher Comments This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic...
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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry Into Western Technology
by Robert M. Adams Publisher Comments Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law, yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the...
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An Anthropologist in Japan
by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments An Anthropologist in Japan is a highly personal narrative which provides unique insights into many elements of Japanese life....
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Anthropology and Archaeology
by Chris Gosden Publisher Comments This volume provides a valuable introduction to the theories and methods of anthropology and archaeology. It covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of the two inter-related subjects....
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Our Inner Ape
by Frans, De Waal Synopsis From one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal...
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Good Neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans, 2nd Edition
by John C. Condon Synopsis Rarely do books grow in importance in their subsequent editions. John Condon's Good Neighbors is one that increases in value for our times. This brief text does not deal exhaustively with all the facets of Mexican culture, but it does sort out and...
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Interpreting Japanese Society
by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropological in understanding this ancient and complex nation are clearly demonstrated....
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Primitive Love And Love Stories
by Henry Theophilus Finck Publisher Comments It so happened that I began to collect notes for a paper on "How to Cure Love." It was at first intended merely as a personal experiment in emotional psychology. Afterward it occurred to me that such a sketch might be shaped into a readable magazine...
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Our Inner Ape
by Frans, De Waal Synopsis From one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal...
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Varieties of Javanese Religion
by Andrew Beatty Publisher Comments This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Geertz's famous study of 1960....
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Islam & Muslims
by Mark Sedgwick Publisher Comments In light of the War in Iraq, diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and other Middle Eastern nations, and the increasing presence of Muslims in Western societies, the need to understand Islam and Muslims has never been greater. Much of the hostility...
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