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Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 17 Countries by Martin Gannon Publisher Comments This book, a best-seller in its first edition, uses cultural metaphors to help students and managers understand, describe, and compare national cultures. In addition to expanding the number of countries covered, the author introduces new conceptual... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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50 Wonders of the World by Hugh Thomson Publisher Comments From Stonehenge and the Empire State Building to Angkor Wat and the Pyramids, this book surveys every continent to discover the most impressive, exotic, and intriguing manmade wonders of the world Arranged in order of longitude, this ... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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This World, Other Worlds: Sickness, Suicide, Death, & the Afterlife among the Vaqueiros De Alzada of Spain by Maria Catedra Publisher Comments The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europeand an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. This World, Other Worlds considers death among the... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Genes, Peoples, and Languages by L Cavalli Sforza Publisher Comments Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question--anticipated by Darwin--with a decisive yes. Genes... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology) by Scott Simon Publisher Comments Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #22: The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature by Peter Seitel Publisher Comments The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and... (read more) List Price $150.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Race and IQ by Ashley Montagu Publisher Comments Ashley Montagu, who first attacked the term "race" as a usable concept in his acclaimed work, Man's Most Dangerous Myth, offers here a devastating rebuttal to those who would claim any link between race and intelligence. In now classic essays, this... (read more) List Price $90.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Secrets of the Pharaohs by Ian Mcmahan Publisher Comments Uncover the timeless mysteries of Ancient Egypt with this fascinating examination of civilization's most cryptic society.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Character of Kinship by Goody Synopsis In his editorial introduction, Jack Goody explains that his aim has been to provide 'essays dealing with general themes rather than ethnographic conundrums or descriptive minutiae' in the hope of achieving 're-consideration of some central problem areas... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Anthropological Theory in North America by E L Cerroni Long Publisher Comments Cultural anthropology is at a crossroads. Under the impact of postmodernist critiques, serious doubts have been raised about the scientific validity—indeed, the very viability—of the ethnographic enterprise. These doubts have been voiced most... (read more) List Price $46.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tapestry of Culture by Abraham Rosman About the Author Abraham Rosman received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. His first fieldwork was with the Kamuri of Bornu Province, in northern Nigeria. He has taught at Vassar College, Antioch College, and Barndard, College, Columbia University, where he... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies by John Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight on CD-ROM (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Multimedia) by Napoleon Chagnon Publisher Comments YANOMAMO INTERACTIVE: THE AX FIGHT sets a new standard in the teaching of cultural anthropology, using the power of multimedia to enhance and extend the experience of viewing Chagnon and Asch's classic ethnographic film.... (read more) List Price $78.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Earliest Ancestors by Bjorn Kurten Publisher Comments One of the world's most beloved science writers tells the fascinating story of human evolution, from the first signs of life on earth three and a half billion years ago to the emergence of modernhumankind.... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, Volume One: To 1550 by Kevin Reilly Publisher Comments Assembled by award-winning community college teacher and distinguished world historian Kevin Reilly, the documents in the best-selling Worlds of History bring history alive for students. Students read voices from the distant and more recent past that... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks by Stephen Nugent Publisher Comments Big Mouth is about modern Amazonia. It is also about the intense and frequently fetishistic and myth-ridden coverage which Amazonia has received in recent years.<P>University of London lecturer Stephen Nugent first went to Amazonia in 1975 and has... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shamans Coat a Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid Synopsis The story of the indigenous people of Siberia, which has a population of just one million. Split between 30 different nationalities, Siberians have a special closeness to the land. They believe nature possesses animating spirits and shamans perform... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An by Lucien Turner Publisher Comments Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turners admittedly fragmentary ethnographic... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World by Alexander Humez Publisher Comments Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo Saxon for "the speck at the head of a boil"), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point that it has become virtually indispensable. Now, in On... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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