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by Car Travis-henikoff  Publisher Comments Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, this account takes readers on an astonishing trip around the world and throughout history, painting the incredible, multifaceted realities of cannibalism. Focusing on how cannibalism... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Loizos Publisher Comments In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clifford Geertz Publisher Comments Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Ann Muller Publisher Comments With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites (ibandla lamaNazaretha) is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans—particularly... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) 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 Michael Burawoy Publisher Comments In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $12.95 (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 Eva Keller Publisher Comments The book examines people's commitment to Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar and the contradictions involved in being an Adventist and at the same time being committed to local morality.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (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 Stuart Walton Publisher Comments Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of 'culture, ' of our so-called higher culture. --Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 With Nietzsche's question as his objective, Stuart Walton begins Out of It: A Cultural History of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry S Sharp Publisher Comments In August 1975 on the reserve of the Chipewyan (a Northern Dene people in the Northwest Territories of Canada), anthropologist Henry S. Sharp and two members of the Mission Band encountered a common loon (dadzene). Loons are prized for their meat and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William H Durham Book News Annotation Two-dozen contributions from international scholars report on recent developments in the field of anthropology. The volume opens with a discussion of how cultural selection shapes linguistic structure. Other topics include, for example, the history of... (read more) Your price $38.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles W Nuckolls Publisher Comments French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this ground-breaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Johan Pottier Publisher Comments Throughout the last decade, there has been a demand for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programs. Much of this pressure has come from internationally renowned development... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price $10.00 (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 Stephane Dufoix Publisher Comments Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and professionals, even engineers working abroad. This concise, lucidly... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (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 $8.95 (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 Catharine H Roehrig Publisher Comments The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt’s early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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