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by Mira Aldhouse Green  Publisher Comments An informative and entertaining exploring of shamanism and ritual behavior in ancient Europe. The authors draw on the most recent archaeological research to show that shamanism was endemic among ancient European peoples from the Stone Age to the early... (read more)  List Price $34.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Roy Richard Grinker Publisher Comments This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies)... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Cutler Book News Annotation A study of the incorporation of Native American words into the English vocabulary. Traces the European settlers' acquisition of Indian words for animals, plants, and foods, and examines the rate of loanword borrowing and fluctuations in that rate... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Katherine S. Newman Publisher Comments This book will interest anthropologists and other readers concerned with the operation and development of legal institutions.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mysore Nar Srinivas Publisher Comments This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences of... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Herbert Thomas Publisher Comments The most basic question of existence--where did Homo sapiens come from?--remains one of the most intriguing. With an emphasis on fascinating new research, this enlightening, authoritative, and easy-to-read book describes more than 2,000 years of thinking... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven C Caton Publisher Comments "Caton's study joins a brilliant ethnography of tribal poetic tradition with a discussion of central issues in anthropological thought."--Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by N F Blake Publisher Comments What is a history of the English language? To a native speaker, the answer to this question might seem obvious; the story, from beginning to end, of the language that we use every day. But a history of the English language raises the prickly question of... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Robinson Publisher Comments An extensive, prodigiously illustrated -- in full color and sepia -- and often playful compendium of the disparate notions of human beauty throughout history and cultures. The Quest for Human Beauty illuminates how and why, for thousands of years, men... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia Morell Publisher Comments looks different". says The New York Times Book Review. This fascinating biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. Includes 50... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Hortens Powdermaker Publisher Comments 'Stranger and Friend is a passionate plea for anthropology as a human discipline as well as a science, as an all-engrossing life experience as well as a profession, and increasingly as a subject in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate studies.' --... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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