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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments "I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society Series) by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes Bruce Chatwin into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages by Paul Lunde Publisher Comments The art of the code-code making and code breaking--remains shrouded in mystery and seems locked away in the murky realms of military intelligence, spies, and secret services. Yet codes affect virtually every area of our lives, providing security... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Island Within by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments Hugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the farmers and their colonizing descendants—... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by Byron E. Shafer Publisher Comments Meeting the need for an up-to-date English-language survey, this informative and accessible book will be welcomed by Egyptologists and their students, as well as by other readers interested in learning more about the culture and religion of ancient Egypt.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Comparative Studies in Religion and Society #4: Mama Lola: A Vodoo Priestess in Brooklyn by Karen Mccarth Brown Publisher Comments Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict Publisher Comments For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading National Geographic by Catherine A Lutz Publisher Comments For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine,... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am Dynamite; An Alternative Anthropology of Power by Nigel Rapport Publisher Comments "I Am Dynamite" ignites an alternative theory of the self and will, wrapped up in a combustible assault upon scholarly convention. Asking why the real effort of constructing and living within an identity is so often overlooked, it examines the subjective... (read more) List Price $50.75 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Robert M Emerson Publisher Comments In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based. Drawing on years of teaching and field research... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Lords of Palenque by Victor Perera Synopsis The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China by Nancy N Chen Publisher Comments The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Material Culture: A Research Guide by Thomas Schlereth Publisher Comments This collection of essays brings together six distinguished scholars in American studies; they examine the progress, problems, and potential of material culture research in America. From an interdisciplinary perspective--representing cultural geography... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10) by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood is their argument :warfare among the Mae Enga tribesmen of the New Guinea highlands by Mervyn J Meggitt Publisher Comments The scarcity of arable land in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea has created fierce competition among the Mae Enga for territorial control. Blood Is Their Argument studies the Mae Enga and their continuous struggle to survive and sustain both... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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