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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 Sarah Levine Publisher Comments You should come with us to Lumbini, Lord Buddha's birthplace, said the Saint of Kathmandu as she swept by me after evening devotions in the nunnery. Pausing at the bottom of the stairway to her quarters, she turned and, bright black eyes locking with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Graeber Publisher Comments andldquo;If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (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 Benedict Allen Publisher Comments In The Last of the Medicine Men, author Benedict Allen, explores the mysterious and dramatic world of healers, who are popularly referred to as witchdoctors. In the diverse communities of the world, healing roles are assumed by faithhealers, shamans... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nigel Strudwick Publisher Comments After reviewing the topography of the site, the Strudwicks recount the history of Thebes from the city's rise in the late Old Kingdom to the peak of its power in the New Kingdom and to its gradual decline in the Greco-Roman period. They discuss the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul MacKendrick Publisher Comments 'Paul MacKendrick has a thrilling tale to tell....His book is for those who want an authoritative exposition of what archeologists are accomplishing in Greek lands.' --American Historical... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Knauft Publisher Comments What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate... (read more) List Price $28.44 Your price $19.95 (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 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 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 $12.95 (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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by Alan Barnard Publisher Comments The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders" (in the past called "Hottentots"), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalihari desert and... (read more) Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Henry Morgan Synopsis Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sydel Silverman Publisher Comments Memoirs of Wenner-Gren Foundation anthropological conferences by the former president of the foundation. Visit our website for sample chapters!... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William M Ferguson Publisher Comments The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700 B.C. to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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