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Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village by Michael Frenc Smith Publisher Comments This book follows the difficult lives of peopleliving in the village of Kragur in Papua NewGuinea. They have been in poverty since European contact and now must find a way to becomeprosperous.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness by Megan Vaughan Publisher Comments This is a lively and original book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed 'the African' out of widely varying and sometimes improbable materials. Referring mainly to British dependencies... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Essentials of Anthropology by Michael V Angrosino Publisher Comments Discusses human evolution and development, human adaptation to the environment, culture, society, the individual, social organization, social stratification and transaction, symbolic expressions, and anthropology and the future.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women by Lionel Tiger Publisher Comments "This provocative book raises questions about the awesome influences of nanotechnology and genetic engineering on the future of human sexuality and social structure. Highly recommended." (Library Journal) "Lionel Tiger, a pioneer of biological... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What's Love Got to Do with It? by Meredith F Small Publisher Comments In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shire Ethnography #14: Malagasy Textiles by John Mack Publisher Comments The large island of Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean facing the coast of Africa. However, it is not a distinctively African island. Amongst those who originally settled there were peoples from south-east Asia as well as from the nearby continent, and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Toward a New Civilization: Why We Must Tame Our Instincts to Save Our World by Arthur Blech Book News Annotation The current economic, social, religious, scientific, and technological assumptions underpinning human understanding of what constitutes civilization is in danger of destroying humanity itself, argues the author in this work of political and moral... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves (Peter N. Nevraumont Books) by Rob Desalle Synopsis Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic form of human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones tell the story of how the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin by John Ure Publisher Comments Centering on four regions that are rich in nomadic culture, Ure enlists skill and humor as he delves into a lifestyle that has long tapped into the wanderlust within settled peoples in the West.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Ur Shlonsky Publisher Comments Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic. He establishes a syntactic analysis of Hebrew and then extends that analysis to certain aspects of Arabic... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) 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   Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments First published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Behind the Mexican Mountains by Robert M Zingg Publisher Comments This is one of the more fascinating travel works I have read on Mexico, and I have read many. It provides an important addition to the scanty literature on the Tarahumara and enriches the material available on this important group. I would also think... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.23 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language by Kate Burridge Publisher Comments A fascinating and well-crafted look at the quirks of the English language, past and present.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe by David Crowe Publisher Comments David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Arms of Africa :turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments What Margaret Mead did for Samoa, Colin Turnbull did for Africa. An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Turnbull’s life-long love affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and ‘70s. In an... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu Publisher Comments With more than 300,000 copies sold, this landmark book is an impressive examination of the importance of touching. "All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value. . . . Parents . . . can gain insight into the nurturing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan by Meyer Fortes Book News Annotation Social anthropologist Fortes enlarged a short course of lectures into the first series of Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures that he delivered at the University of Rochester in the spring of 1963. He focuses on kinship as studied and expressed by his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature by David Suzuki Publisher Comments The ecological answers and solutions we need to our current global environmental crisis are embedded in this living mosaic of profound indigenous insights into the workings of the natural world. These ancestral and contemporary natural perspectives and... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unwrapping a Mummy: The Life, Death, and Embalming of Horemkenesi (Title Page Only) (Egyptian Bookshelf) by John H Taylor Publisher Comments Horemkenesi was an Egyptian priest and official who lived at Thebes in the eleventh century B.C. The unwrapping and scientific examination of his mummified body (the last such investigation to have been carried out in Britain) provided a rare opportunity... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis Publisher Comments A deep and intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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