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by Catherine A Lutz  Publisher Comments For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine,... (read more)  List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Willow Rober Powers Publisher Comments This practical handbook aims to clarify the need for and the use of transcription methodology and provides a useful, efficient guide to creating good transcripts for a variety of people using ethnographic methods. Appropriate for varying levels of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zahi A Hawass Synopsis Hailed as the most sensational find since King Tut's tomb, the story of how hundreds of 2,000-year-old mummies were found in the Egyptian desert in near pristine condition, many with gold masks on. Photos and line drawings.... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Lynch Publisher Comments Bd. 10 = New edition of the complete works / Ferenc Liszt. Series II, Free arrangements and transcriptions for piano solo ;... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Galit Hasan Rokem Publisher Comments This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Penny Colman Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph S Alter Publisher Comments "This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking."--... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Wood Publisher Comments Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policies in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions rules in the name of a diverse student body. What its proponents have in mind when they cite the compelling importance of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Pesetsky Publisher Comments This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Nader Publisher Comments " Nader' s scholarly volume, though detailed, is very readable. Not only is this book a major contribution to the anthropology of law by one of its leading proponents but also one that should be considered by scholars interested in other aspects of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fadwa El Guindi Publisher Comments El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to visual anthropology and the use of film in ethnographic research. She shows how visual media is now an accepted part of anthropological methodology, a vital tool that produces knowledge about the range of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger S Bagnall Publisher Comments Egypt in Late Antiquity brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to our understanding of the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (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 Elsie Clews Parsons Publisher Comments Widely admired by the cultural critics and the avant garde in the 1910s, Fear and Conventionality broke new ground for American anthropology. Elsie Clews Parsons—an anthropologist, cultural critic, feminist, and author—turns a cool and ironic... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Laderman Publisher Comments Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments "This book has all the brilliance, novel and unanticipated connections among ideas, thoughtfulness, and stylistic grace and daring that one always associates with the work of Mary Douglas."--Neil Smelser, author of "Problematics of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas D Hall Publisher Comments This book brings together some of the most influential research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Limon Publisher Comments The idea of crossing the border between the U.S. and "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. In American Encounters, award-winning anthropologist LimUn offers an alternative history of attraction and des ire between... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Candace Slater Publisher Comments Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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