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Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche by Ana Mari Bacigalupo Publisher Comments The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders by Madhusree Mukerjee Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences by Felicitas D Goodman Book News Annotation Goodman, founder of the Cuyamungue Institute, describes her discovery of certain postures that induce ecstatic experiences, the personal and mythical visions of subjects, and how to do it at home. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (Critical Theory Institute Book) by Bill Maurer Publisher Comments In "Accelerating Possession," prominent scholars and theorists explore the inextricable relationship between property and personhood. Since the Enlightenment, definitions of property have entailed corresponding configurations of the person who owned or... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $37.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hard Bargaining in Sumatra: Western Travelers and Toba Bataks in the Marketplace of Souvenirs (Southeast Asia) by Andrew Causey Synopsis Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is an artfully written and penetrating examination of interactions between Western travelers and Toba Batak wood carvers in the souvenir marketplaces of Samosir Island, North Sumatra. Toba Batak carvings, ranging from simple... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel by Elenore Smith Bowen Publisher Comments A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bones Discovering the First Americans by Elaine Dewar Publisher Comments Once, scientists believed that people walked to the New World from northeast Asia, across the Bering land bridge, at the end of the ice age 11,000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence of when and how... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy (Tracking Globalization) by Jennifer Cole Publisher Comments A glimpse into how globalization shapes and is shaped by family life around the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lucyus Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution by Alison Jolly Publisher Comments Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one ofcooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (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   Beyond Culture by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments Fascinating account of Egypt, predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing. Full reference to recent... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patri Some Publisher Comments A fascinating, detailed journey through the traditional healing practices of West Africa by a beloved shaman and scholar.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition by A P Elkin Publisher Comments ANTHROPOLOGY / RELIGIONThe first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degreepresents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories: Subtle Boundaries of Class by Rhoda H Halperin Publisher Comments This is a can't-put-it-down book. . . . The lives of the people touch you, compel you to go on reading. For many it will open a window of understanding; for others it will give validity to a way of life. --Judith E. Marti, Associate Professor of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins by Milton Myron Gordon Synopsis A sociological analysis of the theories of assimilation in American society, noting the cultural and behavioral characteristics of religions, racial and ethnic groups.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Jealous Potter by Claude Levi Strauss Publisher Comments As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment by Robert C Kiste Publisher Comments American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself. Contributors analyze the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People by Arun Agrawal Publisher Comments "A riveting combination of sophistication in formal theory, brilliant ethnography, and analytical imagination."--James C. Scott, Yale University<BR> "Beautifully researched and rigorously analyzed, this book will be of interest to economists... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New by Daniel T Reff Publisher Comments This book examines the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and colonial Mexico.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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