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by Mark Halpern  Publisher Comments Language & Human Nature shows how faults in language usage, far from being merely irritants to pedants and esthetes, are often both causes and effects of serious public problems, and explores the strange role that linguistics plays in this turbulent... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Reed Publisher Comments KEY BENEFIT: " Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this book is part of a series of ethnographies, authored by leading figures in the field of anthropology and builds on introductoy material by going further in-... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Leakey Publisher Comments In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael J Harner Publisher Comments "This ethnography is one of the classics in the field of South America. The Jivaro (Shuar) represent one of the most important and political well-organized groups of South American Indians, and Harner's work, reissued here, will become the major... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Berger Synopsis "In the Footsteps of Eve" introduces readers both to an articulate new voice in paleoanthropology and to a bold new theory of our earliest ancestry. Combining hard science and high drama, it is a book as engrossing as it is important. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Gannon Publisher Comments This book, a best-seller in its first edition, uses cultural metaphors to help students and managers understand, describe, and compare national cultures. In addition to expanding the number of countries covered, the author introduces new conceptual... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maria Catedra Publisher Comments The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe--and an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. "This World, Other Worlds considers death among... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Simon Publisher Comments Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Austin Broos Publisher Comments How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shigeru Kayano Publisher Comments This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R Sellheim Publisher Comments Volume 36 of Oriens is a priceless collection of articles for Franz Rosenthal by a great number of his many friends, colleagues and former students. <BR>With contributions by Franz Rosenthal, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Bochum), Joshua Blau... (read more) List Price $221.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tobias Schneebaum Publisher Comments In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions 'Keep the river on your right,' the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor Turner Publisher Comments Victor Turner (1920-1983) stands as one of the leading anthropologists of the twentieth century, known especially for his work on the process of ritual. This new collection of Turner's writings gathers seven late pieces that reflect his thoughts on such... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles A Pasternak Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-395) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tzvetan Todorov Publisher Comments In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the human condition in the Western philosophical tradition... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pascal Boyer Publisher Comments Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Evon Zartman Vogt Book News Annotation New edition of a comprehensive survey of the Zincanteco belief system. The book begins with explanations of field work methods followed by detailed descriptions of the cycles encompassing hamlet life, social and domestic relations, and rituals... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Seitel Publisher Comments The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Finney Publisher Comments In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokulea, a reconstruction of an ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in canoes and navigating solely by reading the stars... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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