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by Weston La Barre  Book News Annotation **** Cited in BCL3. This is the paper edition of the expanded, updated classic study first published in 1938, revised for the fifth time in 1989. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Gananat Obeyesekere Publisher Comments In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly cannibal talk, a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Emm Ferry Publisher Comments Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of "patrimonio" (patrimony) in their... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laird Scranton Publisher Comments Using Dogon cosmological symbols, the author reveals references within the ancient Egyptian language that define the full range of scientific components of matter: from massless waves to the completed atom, even suggesting direct correlations to a fully... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christian Henriot Publisher Comments Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $75.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Examines the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as cinema, fiction writing and opera.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louise Lamphere Book News Annotation Compares the experiences of Mexican-American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual women manage the competing demands of two roles. The authors show how these... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Leakey Publisher Comments The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins, wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologistsLouis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and their son Richard Leakeyhas vastly expanded our understanding of human evolution. The Origin of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Bonwick Publisher Comments Classic exploration of the Great Pyramid's construction and objectives combines imagination, erudition. Physical form; when it was built, and by whom; roles as an astronomical observatory, source of inspiration for religious teachings, scientific and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna L Hart Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, theories of human evolution have emphasized the importance of hunting in human societies. Although "man the hunter" is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archeological... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stevan Harrell Publisher Comments This is a varied and wide-ranging collection of essays by Yi and foreign scholars on the history, traditional society, and modern social changes among the 7 million Yi people of Southwest China.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Monni Atkinson Publisher Comments Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane R Bolger Publisher Comments The last three decades have witnessed the introduction of gendered approaches to the social sciences in general, and archaeology in particular. By examining archaeological remains from the perspective of gender, we can begin to formulate approaches to... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $65.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Escalante Gonzalbo Publisher Comments Every culture needs to appropriate the universal truth of human suffering, says Fernando Escalante, . . . to give its own meaning to this suffering, so that human existence is bearable. Originally published in Spanish as La mirada de Dios: Estudios sobre... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F G Bailey Publisher Comments F.G. Bailey’s classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book’s scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Hornung Synopsis Ancient Egyptian antiquities are dominated by art and artifacts depicting the Netherworld -- the alternate universe mummified bodies would enter at the end of their physical lives, where they would live on for eternity. In this dazzling book, photographs... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Kearney Publisher Comments This book looks at rural society in general and considers the problematic distinction between rural and urban. Moving beyond a reconsideration of peasantry, the book situates anthropology in global context, showing how the discipline reconstructs itself... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerome Rousseau Publisher Comments Human societies are characterized by complex and varied social systems that change through time due to communication and negotiation. Jrme Rousseau makes cognitive complexity his starting point in an innovative study of how and why human societies evolve.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Dubisch Publisher Comments In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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