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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 $16.95 Your price: $9.00 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 The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hidden Dimension by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger by Paul Stoller Publisher Comments This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.--Choice Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass by Robert J Gordon Publisher Comments Images of the Bushman—from the innocent hero of the hit movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, to “vermin” eradicated by the colonists, to the superhuman trackers conscripted by the South African Defense Forces, and the living embodiment of... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographers imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Savages by Joe Kane Publisher Comments Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Research Methods in Anthro 3ed by H Russell Bernard Synopsis As well as the methodological advice of previous editions, this third edition includes: additional material on text analysis, an expanded section on sampling in field settings, the use of computers for fieldwork and analysis, and the pros and cons of... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Humankind: A Brief History by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments The discovery that the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is incredibly similar, sharing 98% of the same code, suggests that there is very little different--or special--about the human animal. Likewise, advances in artificial intelligence mean that humans no... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches by H Russell Bernard Publisher Comments The first edition of Research Methods in Anthropology represented the first major anthropology methods text in more than a decade. It received worldwide acclaim for its comprehensiveness, its balance of both qualitative and quantitative methods, its... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moon, Sun, & Witches by Irene Silverblatt Publisher Comments "This is a rich and compelling analysis--well conceived, innovative, and dealing with important frontiers in several fields. It will stand as a very important contribution to anthropology, ethnohistory, Latin American studies, and women's studies."--Kay... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments "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) List Price $50.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramon A Gutierrez Publisher Comments This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology. This watershed work records Claude Landeacute;vi-Strauss's search for andquot;a human society reduced to its most basic expression.andquot; From the Amazon basin through the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Composing a Life (89 Edition) by Mary Catherine Bateson Publisher Comments This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language of the Land by James Stephenson Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-two, James Stephenson arranged to spend a year living among the Hadzabe, the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in Africa. He wanted to live their life, hunting what they hunted, eating what they ate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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