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by Edward T Hall  Publisher Comments In print for nearly forty years and with more than one million copies sold, this classic work "shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, without his knowledge" (Erich Fromm).... (read more)  Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Anthony Giddens Publisher Comments “Giddens, a towering figure in Anglo-American sociology, has now extended his analyses of modernity to include the area of intimacy in this thoughtful and provocative book.”—Choice “This is a short book that differs in style from... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Barley Book News Annotation Takes a light-hearted yet sympathetic look at death and death rituals in various societies as an example of the variety and inventiveness of human culture. Much of the material is based on the author's experiences in traditional African cultures. For... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alessand Bongioanni Publisher Comments This volume documents the entire collection of archeological and artistic treasures at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Presenting each artifact in spellbinding full-color photos, the volume also details its history and its exact placement within the museum... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Fascinating, erudite, well-illustrated discussion of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, Book of the Dead, much more.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc De Civrieux Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition: Anthropologists and folklorists have gathered, against the coming night of worldwide electronic frost, sheaves and sheaves of oral narrative, but little of it is as readable, coherent, and thought-provoking as Watunna...... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Lan Publisher Comments "This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point of view of ordinary people...It is not only a specific study of great brilliance but also a model which shows how anthropology can... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marianne Sommer Publisher Comments Marianne Sommer unravels a riveting tale about a set of ancient human bones and their curious afterlife as a scientific object. When the ochre-stained bones were unearthed in a Welsh cave in 1823, they inspired unsettling questions regarding their origin.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments In Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, bestselling author and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks with an inspired eye at how our very concepts of personal identity and shared fulfillment are changing. Living longer than ever before... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Noel T Boaz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-215) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Torrance Publisher Comments Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Evon Z Vogt Book News Annotation Reprint of the Harvard University Press edition originally published in 1976 on the relationship between food and ceremony. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard A Shweder Publisher Comments The relationship between everyday experience and culture - seen as a set of ideas, values, or symbolic codes - has challenged social scientists, especially anthropologists, for more than a century. In this volume, leading social scientists present and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wade Roof Publisher Comments An overview of public religion in California, Nevada, and Hawaii.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Pasternak Publisher Comments Scientists continually look for the genetic factors that make humans so very different in appearance and behavior from most animals-the genes that are uniquely human. Respected biochemist and author Charles Pasternak argues that such genes do not exist... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $8.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Hakken Publisher Comments Cyborgs@Cyberspace? is a compelling and innovative analysis of technology from a cultural perspective. It turns an anthropological eye on the growing phenomenon of cyberspace to address some of the pressing questions of the Computer Age: How significant... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Olson Publisher Comments 'In this sweeping narrative of the past 150,000 years of human history, Steve Olson draws on new understandings in genetics to reveal how the people of the world came to be. Traveling across four continents, Olson describes the African origins of modern... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J E L Carter Publisher Comments The first major account of the somatotyping field in over thirty years, this volume presents a comprehensive history of somatotyping, beginning with W.H. Sheldon's introduction to the method in 1940. The controversies regarding the validity of Sheldon's... (read more) List Price $160.00 Your price $120.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kim M Phillips Publisher Comments Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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