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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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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)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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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)
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham
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Until two million years ago, our ancestors were apelike beings the size of chimpanzees. Then Homo erectus was born and we became human. What caused this extraordinary transformation?
In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard... ( read more)
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
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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)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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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)
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond
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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)
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C Mann
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... ( read more)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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"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)
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The Book of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages
by Paul Lunde
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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)
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Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice
by Byron E. Shafer
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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)
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Patterns of Culture
by Ruth Benedict
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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)
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Reading National Geographic
by Catherine A Lutz
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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)
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Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
by Loring M Danforth
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"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first... ( read more)
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by Howard W French
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In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor... ( read more)
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New Guinea Ceremonies
by David Gillison
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When David Gillison first arrived in New Guinea in 1973, ceremonies marking birth, death, initiation, and marriage were still being conducted by the Gimi tribe as they had been for thousands of years. Today, many of the Gimi's indigenous traditions, like... ( read more)
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Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Robert M Emerson
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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)
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
by Nancy N Chen
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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)
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanitys oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species... ( read more)
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Cannibals and Kings
by Marvin Harris
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In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions.... ( read more)
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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
by Richard Wrangham
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Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males... ( read more)
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