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California Series in Public Anthropology #12: Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It by Rob Borofsky Publisher Comments Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology--questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy--one of anthropology'... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas 2 Part Set Volume 2, Mesoamerica (Parts 1 and 2) by Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod Publisher Comments This book gives a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the history of all the important native civilizations of Mesoamerica.... (read more) List Price $434.25 Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chaco Canyon: Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than a century. Beautifully illustrated with color and black-... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry #5: Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development by Duncan Earle Publisher Comments Drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork with the Zapatistas of south-eastern Mexico, cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli reveal a complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Combining... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History, Ethnology and Anthropology of the Aleut (Anthropology of Pacific North America) by Waldemar Jochelson Publisher Comments A new series of reprints, monographs, and edited volumes on the anthropology and prehistory of Pacific North America. The series will include works from the coastal and riverine regions of Alaska to California.<P>Based on Jochelson's 1909-1910... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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International Bibliography of Anthropology by Routledge Publisher Comments First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is a classic reference series for students, researchers, and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Including annual volumes covering the fields of Anthropology... (read more) List Price $763.75 Your price: $102.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mirror for Humanity: a Concise Introduction To Cultural Anthropology by Conrad Phillip Kottak Publisher Comments Written by a prominent scholar in the field, Mirror for Humanity is designed to provide a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive introduction to cultural anthropology. It carefully balances coverage of core topics with contemporary changes in the field. Since... (read more) List Price $57.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory by Virginia Kerns Publisher Comments Julian Steward (1902-72) is best remembered in American anthropology as the creator of cultural ecology, a theoretical approach that has influenced generations of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists. This generous biography by Virginia Kerns... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death by Melanie King Synopsis Would you be buried, burned, sunk or pickled? Or turned into a diamond, embalmed like Lenin, or frozen like Walt Disney? The Dying Game explores all that has, could, and does befall a corpse - biologically, culturally, ethically, and legally... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Growing Up in New Guinea (Perennial Classics) by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneIntroduction The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded. Whether one wishes... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Anthropology #8: Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition by George W Stocking Publisher Comments Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rereading Cultural Anthro-P by George E. Marcus Publisher Comments During its first six years (1986–1991), the journal Cultural Anthropology provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in Rereading... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Doing Cultural Geography (Doing Human Geography) by Pamela Shurmer Smith Publisher Comments Doing Cultural Geography is an introduction to cultural geography that integrates theoretical discussion with applied examples. The emphasis throughout is on doing. Recognizing that many undergraduates have difficulty with both theory and methods courses,... (read more) List Price $130.25 Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Oriens, Volume 36 Volume 36 Oriens, Volume 36 Volume 36: by R Sellheim Publisher Comments Volume 36 of Oriens is a priceless collection of articles for Franz Rosenthal by a great number of his many friends, colleagues and former students. <BR>With contributions by Franz Rosenthal, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Bochum), Joshua Blau... (read more) List Price $282.25 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Writings by George H Mead Publisher Comments The only collection of Mead's writings published during his lifetime, these essays have heretofore been virtually inaccessible. Reck has collected twenty-five essays representing the full range and depth of Mead's thought. This penetrating volume will be... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Multiple and Intersecting P by Betty M Merchant Publisher Comments This book extends the current discourse on the role of cultural knowledge in qualitative research, especially research conducted by women of color within their own community. Each author reports on her attempts to conceptualize herself as a researcher... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change (Arts and Their Philosophies) by Arthur D Murphy Review "Murphy and Stepick catch Oaxaca at a special time in its history. When the illustrious works of theory in the academic disciplines have faded, when Foucault is a footnote and deconstruction derided, books like this one will still be valuable. A... (read more) List Price $80.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum Publisher Comments In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions 'Keep the river on your right,' the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place by Rupert Stasch Publisher Comments This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures by Richard Leakey Publisher Comments In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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