Anthropology
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Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of AC
by Charles R Hale  Synopsis Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge...
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By Hook or by Crook
by David Crystal Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much--of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the...
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King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb
by Zahi Hawass Publisher Comments The ultimate book on King Tut and his tomb—the most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known. The fabulous treasures of Tutankhamun have fascinated the public since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. Many books have been written...
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The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages
by Phillip Dahl-bredine Synopsis The authors ask you to consider playing a new game, one in which everyone has a chance to win. They invite you into a community which can make the world bigger, richer, and more exciting for you, as their life among the Mixtec peoples has for them. You...
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Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
by Barbara (edt) Sebek Publisher Comments This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England’s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser...
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
by Claudio Lomnitz Publisher Comments Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican...
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Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
by Elias Aboujaoude Publisher Comments In this compelling book, we meet a man who can't let anyone get within a certain distance of his nose, two kleptomaniacs from very different walks of life, an Internet addict who chooses virtual life over real life, a professor with a dangerous gambling...
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The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries
by Mark Lehner Publisher Comments "A fully illustrated compendium of every major pyramid of ancient Egypt."—Atlanta Journal Constitution Mark Lehner brings his many years of field research in Egypt to this definitive book. He examines the pyramids in unprecedented detail, covering...
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The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
by Judith Adle Hellman Publisher Comments By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families "Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—...
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Culture and Customs of Senegal (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Eric S. Ross Publisher Comments A blend of indigenous life in the rural countryside and metropolitan culture in urban centers, Senegal has been a small, yet prominent country on Africa's western coast. In this comprehensive study of contemporary Senegalese life, readers will learn how...
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
by Daniel Heller-roazen Publisher Comments Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the...
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Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand
by Beryl Mildred Cryer Synopsis A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the inland coast of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria's oldest newspaper, the "Daily Colonist," the seventy...
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest (Ancient Peoples and Places)
by Stephen Plog Publisher Comments "A graphic, lucid account of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon highlights how these ancient cultures evolved so successfully in response to their changing habitat."—Science News Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations...
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The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs
by Nicholas Reeves Publisher Comments "For all those interested in the burial practices in New Kingdom Egypt, this should be the first book to consult. " —Journal of the American Oriental Society This account of the Valley of the Kings brings together the art, archaeology, and history...
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Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton
by M. Anne (edt) Katzenberg Publisher Comments Advance praise for the Second Edition: The substantial widening of the coverage and the inclusion of issues that have received increased or revitalized research interest since publication of the First Edition will provide unrivalled comprehensiveness...
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Culture and Customs of Syria (Culture and Customs of the Middle East)
by John A. Shoup Publisher Comments Syria has served as a major crossroads in the Middle East since prehistoric times, leaving it open to change and passing customs from other societies. Syria's melting pot of cultures has led it to become an ethnically diverse country, sometimes leading...
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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt—this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen...
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Texas A&m University Anthropology #13: Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves
by Rob Desalle Synopsis Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic form of human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones tell the story of how the...
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic (Vintage)
by Melanie Mcgrath Publisher Comments In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty...
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