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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert by Rupert Isaacson Publisher Comments Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons Publisher Comments In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind? Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog #26: Human Paleobiology by Robert B Eckhardt Publisher Comments Explores adaptability and variation in past and present human populations.... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $125.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk Synopsis This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mexican Kickapoo Indians (Dover Books on the American Indians) by Felippe Latorre Publisher Comments Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. Focus on why they left, why they settled in northern Mexico, how they live. "One of the most thorough and authentic studies..... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories by Lila Abu Lughod Publisher Comments In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya by Cynt Hoehler Fatton Publisher Comments The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the Luo region of western Kenya. This movement has fascinated students of history and religion for more than sixty years, but surprisingly... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $1.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization by Stevphen Shukaitis Publisher Comments <BR>What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth & Modernity in So. India by Cecilia Van Hollen Publisher Comments This is an ethnographic study of the ways in which modernity is impacting the experiences of poor women during childbirth in Tamil Nadu, South India, and of the cultural constructions of gender produced in this process.<P>... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (Body, Commodity, Text) by Hildi Hendrickson Publisher Comments "Innovative, rich, and engaging. This collection's concern with how the body surface mediates constructions of identity in colonial and post-colonial Africa makes an important contribution to ongoing scholarship on the body, clothing, and consumption in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Anthropology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Silencing the Past by Michel-ro Trouillot Publisher Comments 'Silencing the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of historical narrative. Taking examples ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Columbus Day, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard Publisher Comments Howard's definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead's professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anahulu Volume 2 by Patrick V Kirch Publisher Comments From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $6.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush by Adam Bellow Publisher Comments Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought by James D Faubion Publisher Comments Since the early 1970's, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. "Rethinking the Subject" brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sexual Cultures: Community, Values, & Intimacy by Jeffrey Weeks Book News Annotation One of three volume of papers from a 1994 conference held at the University of Central Lancashire. Contributors demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual and how the sexual becomes a focal point for personal identity, values, and political action... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cooperation & Competition Among Primitve Peoples by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-544) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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