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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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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)

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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Vintage)
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Vintage)
by Charles C. Mann
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From the author of 1491 — the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas — a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split... (read more)

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more)

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The Hold Life Has: Cocoa and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
The Hold Life Has: Cocoa and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
by Catherine J Allen
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-289) and index.... (read more)

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The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides... (read more)

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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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'NOW AVAILABLE- FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION OF DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.' From the vantage point of the colonized, the term "research" is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific... (read more)

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Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
by Edw Evans Pritchard
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This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.... (read more)

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Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
by Holly Wardlow
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Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli “passenger women,” (women who accept money for sex)... (read more)

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The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow
by Wade Davis
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In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of... (read more)

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
by John Mcwhorter
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we... (read more)

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Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
by Michael T Taussig
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In this classic book, Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges... (read more)

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Oceanic Art (World of Art)
Oceanic Art (World of Art)
by Nicholas Thomas
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The dazzling colors and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, including artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art as "primitive", mysterious, shrouded in taboo, but... (read more)

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Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
by Carol Delaney
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Investigating Culture offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms. Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students... (read more)

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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more)

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Ancient Near East Vol.1 an Anthology (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
Ancient Near East Vol.1 an Anthology (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
by James B Pritchard
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Writings from the cultures of biblical times supplement the Old Testament in documenting the history of the ancient Near East.... (read more)

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Representations Books #8: Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond
Representations Books #8: Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond
by Sherry B Ortner
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This book grapples with the work and legacy of Clifford Geertz, one of the noted anthropologists of this century. Including a list of top-notch contributors, this book provides a range of writings about the meanings of culture today.... (read more)

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Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork
by Allaine Cerwonka
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Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory... (read more)

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The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book)
The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book)
by Lauren Van Der Post
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An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.... (read more)

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Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Cindy L Hull
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The focus of this case study is the changing social and economic structure of the henequen zone in northwest Yucatan, Mexico, with special attention paid to women's economic participation. The henequen zone is unique in that it has been dominated by... (read more)

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The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
by Colin Turnbull
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The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull... (read more)

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