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The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey Through Space and Time by Curtiss Hoffman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris Publisher Comments In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Amazon Stranger: A Saga of a Rainforest Warrior by Mike Tidwell Publisher Comments One man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Cofan people against Big Oil.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Landscapes of the World: Conserving a Global Heritage by Peter Fowler Publisher Comments The best of the world's cultural landscapes--the results of humanity's interaction with the environment over millennia--are a legacy of enormous importance, comparable with great archaeological monuments and works of art. Since 1992 the international... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries by Nicholas Reeves Publisher Comments The history of Egyptian archaeology, beginning with Napolean's Great Expedition in 1799 through to the excavation of the golden mummies in 1999, is chronicled in this book that includes excerpts from the notebooks and diaries of excavators. 350 photos... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies by Edward Schieffelin Publisher Comments This book is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by "Le Figaro as "an event," the resulting conversations between Claude Levi-Strauss... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 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

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   Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Milford Wolpoff Publisher Comments Where do humans come from? How did they evolve? How did different races come into existence? The quest for modern human origins has both fascinated and divided people for centuries. Theories of race and questions of whether humans can be categorized in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Doing Cultural Geography (Doing Human Geography) by Pamel Shurmer-smith Publisher Comments An introduction to cultural geography that integrates theoretical discussion with applied examples.... (read more) Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore by Alan Dundes Publisher Comments International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. In this volume, twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms by F G Bailey Publisher Comments Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F.G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork by Harry F Wolcott Publisher Comments Here, Wolcott presents the full story of his intimate and tumultuous relationship with the young man who was the subject of his long-term study on how the educational system can fail students-The Brad Trilogy--and the firestorm it caused. Written in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q'Ero Indians of Peru by Joan Parisi Wilcox Publisher Comments "."a mature and sensitive portrait of a mystical system as seen through the eyes of its practitioners.Written with heart and respect.a gateway for serious seekers to discover the world of living energy and.how to live in harmony with each other."--Deepak... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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

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