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by Walter Williams  Publisher Comments Winner of the: Gay Book of the Year Award, American Library Association Ruth Benedict Award, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Award for Outstanding Scholarship, World Congress for Sexology "An extraordinary perceptive study of the berdache... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Patricia Grinager Synopsis In this vivid and deeply personal portrait of Mead's brilliance, foibles, humor and her private reactions to friends and enemies, Uncommon Lives traces the intertwined lives of two remarkable women.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gloria Goodw Raheja Publisher Comments In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Becker Publisher Comments In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Narby 
Publisher Comments A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Thomas Publisher Comments In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Luc Racine Publisher Comments Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur H Niehoff Publisher Comments This collection of 24 essays illustrates how humans perceive the world using symbolic concepts. While scientists have long accepted humankind as an animal that stands upright and uses tools, we now know that humans also have a very special way of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eugenia W Herbert Publisher Comments Herbert relates the beliefs and practices associated with iron working in African cultures to other transformative activities-chiefly investiture, hunting, and pottery making-to propose a gender/age-based theory of power.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yves Coppens Publisher Comments Ten million years ago in tropical Africa, some large primates were forced to stand upright and walk on two feet. Over the next several million years, their minds and skills developed. They organized themselves into clans, invented tools and a consistent... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Stone Publisher Comments Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angela Procoli Publisher Comments "Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social... (read more) List Price $40.50 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen R Gibson Publisher Comments Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Jordan Publisher Comments How were we transformed from ape-like creatures without tool-making, language ot culture into people of the latter part of the last ice age who, give or take the further progress of technology, were just like ourselves? Covering five million years, this... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Olga Najera Ramirez Publisher Comments An intimate study of a religious festival in contemporary Mexico that skillfully weaves together ethnography, history, and folklore.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary H Manhein Publisher Comments As director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory at Louisiana State University, Manhein unravels mysteries of life and death every day. In "The Bone Lady", she shares many fascinating cases that include the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments In this new Mammoth volume's variety of firsthand accounts--from papyri, chiseled tablets, court records, temple texts, graffiti, classical Greek and Roman histories--the ancient Egyptian way of life is unfolded in colorful detail with dramatic immediacy.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Winston Publisher Comments This definitive visual guide takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. From evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future aspects of human life, this book examines the qualities that all humans share and profiles more than 250... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vernon Reynolds Publisher Comments What effect does the Islamic attitude toward abortion have upon the family size and growth of Muslim populations? How do the Sukuma people of Tanzania react to the birth of an abnormal child, and why do their reactions differ so radically from those of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Merryl Wyn Davies Publisher Comments Introducing Anthropology traces the genesis and evolution of anthropology from the ancient Greeks to contemporary times. Did anthropology serve as a 'handmaiden to colonialism'? Is it a 'science' created by racism to prove racism? Lucid in its arguments,... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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