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Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language 2ND Edition 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 add to wish list Sacred Symbols of the Dogon: The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs 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 add to wish list Yanomamo 5TH Edition Case Studies in Cultural An by Napoleon A Chagnon Publisher Comments Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics 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 $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family & Factory 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 add to wish list Creating a Human World: A New Psychological and Religious Anthropology in Dialogue with Freud, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard by Ernest Dani Carrere Publisher Comments In Creating a Human World, Trappist monk and scholar Ernest Daniel Carrere explores what it means to be fully human, to live in a shared world, and to resist the easy tendency to flee reality and seek pleasure in material pursuits. To do so he examines... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great Pyramid of Giza: History and Speculation 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 add to wish list Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Deborah Poole Publisher Comments "Bold in its conception, brilliant in its execution, this book catches the eye and stimulates the imagination through its thoughtful examination of diverse visual representations from colonial and postcolonial Peru. It engages the mind and lingers in the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java by Suzanne A Brenner Publisher Comments While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Way of the Shaman: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Michael Harner Publisher Comments The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author--"The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (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   Archaeological Report #7: Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus 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 add to wish list In the Eyes of God: A Study on the Culture of Suffering 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 add to wish list Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949 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 add to wish list Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 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 $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective (Critical Essays in Anthropology) 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 add to wish list From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play by Victor Turner Publisher Comments How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America by James Axtell Publisher Comments Drawing on a wide variety of source, Axtell explores the cultural adjustments that occurred when white Europeans met and attempted to 'civilize' the native Americans.... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil by Daniel J Hillel Publisher Comments A moving tribute to the physical and spiritual properties of nature's richestelement by one of the world's leading soil conservationists.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ocasiao: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration (Alterations Book) by George E Marcus Publisher Comments Anthropologist George Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna, reveal the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through their letters and commentaries. This innovative and experimental ethnography is a reflection on... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list La Casa de MIS Suenos by Peri L Fletcher Publisher Comments Unable to secure a full livelihood in either Mexico or the United States, migrants from the rural village of Napizaro in central Mexico must extend their families, and their community, across the border. The lives of Napizarenos demonstrate the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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