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Egypt Game Book: Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs by Berenice Schneiter Publisher Comments What is inside a pyramid? Why did the Egyptians worship cats? Where did the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris come from? How can you tell apart the portraits of the pharaohs? What role did the Sphinx play in Egyptian life? What was a festival... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $24.50 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fat by Don Kulick Publisher Comments An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world. With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The Culture of Marginality Among the Teenek of Tantoyuca (Mesoamerican Worlds) by Anath Ariel Vidas Publisher Comments Now available in English, Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore explores the highly unusual worldview of the Teenek people of Tantoyuca, Veracruz, whose self-deprecating cosmology diverges quite radically from patterns of positive cultural identity among... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price $11.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach (Explorations in Anthropology) by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant political economy for our times. The complex and often... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 by Robert R Alvarez Publisher Comments Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred Healing, & Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Schultes Publisher Comments The use of hallucinogenic plants has been a part of human experience for millennia, yet modern Western societies have only recently become aware of the significance that these plants have had in shaping the history of diverse cultures. Capable of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ethnography; Principles in Practice by Martyn Hammersley Publisher Comments Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies in Britain, America and elsewhere.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Southern Poetry by David Rigsbee Publisher Comments Mencken's stinging characterization of the American South as "the Sahara of the Bozart" reflects an understandable frustration with the narrow view of the canon of southern literature. With its focus on novelists, it largely ignores the works of all but... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $12.65 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 by Jon Gjerde Publisher Comments "Turning multiple identities into complementary ones, one of our best historians of immigration returns assimilation to center stage. In this gem of a book, John Gjerde greatly enriches our vision of the American whole without ever sacrificing its parts".... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments Offering wisdom gleaned from fossil remains, primate behavior, prehistoric art, and archaeology, Tattersall presents a stunning picture of human evolution.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (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   Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures) by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri by Tanis C Thorne Synopsis A study of kinship networks among French Creoles and Central Siouan tribes and the influence of those networks on social, political and economic development along the lower Missouri River from the late prehistoric period to the removal era in the 1870s.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Desert Smells Like Rain a Naturalist I by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration by Louise Lamphere Publisher Comments Through ethnographic research, sociologists and anthropologists explore the interaction of America's newcomers with established residents in six cities. Their analysis highlights the importance of class and power as immigrants interact in the workplace... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research by Derek Freeman Publisher Comments For most of the twentieth century, Margaret Mead’s renowned book Coming of Age in Samoa has validated an antievolutionary anthropological paradigm that assumes that culture is the overwhelming determinant of human behavior. Her account of female... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working in America (American Experience) by Catherine Reef Synopsis Eyewitness History is an interdisciplinary and multicultural series that reveals how significant events were seen and interpreted by people from all levels of society. Excerpts from primary sources -- memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $47.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Theory of Shopping by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt by Peter A Clayton Synopsis This work traces all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in their chronological order, from Narmer, who first united all the lands along the Nile, to Cleopatra 3000 years later. Timelines and other visual aids are used throughout this book.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology by Richard R Wilk Publisher Comments This text is the first synthesis of modern economic anthropology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It goes to the heart of an emerging subdiscipline and identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective by Marjorie Man Balzer Publisher Comments Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although First Nations, indigenous peoples, have often been victims... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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