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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City by Paula Holmes Eber Publisher Comments Daughters of Tunis is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women’s survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The classic account of Egypt's most famous queennow fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Narrative & the Cultural Construction of Illness & Healing by Cheryl Mattingly Publisher Comments Medical narratives between healers and patients focused on illuminating aspects of the healing process that surround illness and the practice of healing.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Picturing Casablanca by Susan Ossman Publisher Comments In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture by Kendrick Frazier Publisher Comments In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People by Jean Comaroff Publisher Comments In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition by A P Elkin Publisher Comments ANTHROPOLOGY / RELIGIONThe first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degreepresents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead by Ann Fabian Publisher Comments When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Mortons skull wound up in a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Reformation of Machismo by Elizabeth E Brusco Publisher Comments Protestant evangelicalism has spread rapidly in Latin America at the same time that foreign corporations have taken hold of economies there. These concurrent developments have led some observers to view this religious movement as a means of melding... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island by Elayne Zorn Publisher Comments The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry by Israel Drori Publisher Comments Reconciliation of industrial production and social, political and gender conflicts in Israeli textile plants.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories: Subtle Boundaries of Class by Rhoda H Halperin Publisher Comments This is a can't-put-it-down book.... The lives of the people touch you, compel you to go on reading. For many it will open a window of understanding; for others it will give validity to a way of life. --Judith E. Marti, Associate Professor of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger by Susan J Rasmussen Publisher Comments The Tuareg in Africa understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear -- a dimension of life they measure outside a chronological time frame. For the Tuareg, the life course of an individual is more important to the notion of age than the literal... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel by Elenore Smith Bowen Publisher Comments A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell Publisher Comments In recent years the notion of ritual has emerged as an important focus for new forms of cultural analysis. Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close theoretical analysis of the recent developments in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Narratives of Human Evolution by Misia Landau Publisher Comments Landau analyzes classic texts on evolution by Darwin, Keith, and Eliot Smith, as well as more recent accounts by Dart, Robinson, Tobias, and Johanson, to reveal that they have a common narrative form based on the universal hero tale, an understanding of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 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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Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature by Craig Stanford Publisher Comments Evolutionary scientists know that the line that divides humans from other animals has grown increasingly blurry, yet many other fields, especially in the social sciences, have not really absorbed this knowledge. At the same time, the knowledge that all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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