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by Jared Diamond  
Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by H Russell Bernard Synopsis Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernards unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn Stephen Synopsis "Where most research on things 'transnational' is anchored on one side of the border or the other, "Transborder Lives" is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Harner Publisher Comments This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elisa Burgos Debray Synopsis Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."—Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin Tudge Synopsis Drawing on the findings of geology, anthropology, archaeology and earth science, Colin Tudge discusses in detail and intertwines histories of the planet Earth and the evolution of humankind.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lois W Banner Publisher Comments A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments Over the course of a monumental career, Claude Lévi-Strauss has interwoven artistic materials and themes into his seminal analyses of the “savage mind.” Now the world’s most famous anthropologist turns his attention entirely to the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J M Adovasio Publisher Comments Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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