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The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth M Thomas Publisher Comments One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots—and the roots of life as we know it When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Cindy L Hull Publisher Comments The focus of this case study is the changing social and economic structure of the henequen zone in northwest Yucatan, Mexico, with special attention paid to women's economic participation. The henequen zone is unique in that it has been dominated by... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Civilizations of the Americas by Antony Mason Publisher Comments In ancient North and South America extraordinary civilizations rose, flourished, and fell. The Mayan pyramids and the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru and Teotihuacan in Mexico remain a testament to these cultures. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples by Elspeth A Young Publisher Comments One of the major cultural and economic issues facing both Australia and Canada concerns the governments' past and present failures to involve the "first peoples" in development. Elspeth Young contrast the materialist development approach of both big... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Public Faces, Private Lives: Community and Individuality in South India by Mattison Mines Publisher Comments Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Story of the Gypsies (History of the Romany) by Konrad Bercovici Publisher Comments Originally published in London 1929. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle by Lois W Banner Publisher Comments A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain by Nigel Rapport Publisher Comments The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Directions in Anthropological Kinship 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 add to wish list Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe: The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentieth Century 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 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   Race for Theory and the Biophobia Hypothesis: Humanics, Humanimals, and Macroanthropology by Melvin D Williams Publisher Comments Biophobia Hypothesis: Race and those other socially divisive behaviors that have enabled human beings to dominate Earth and other species are now obsolete because of weapons, technology, and internationalism. Solution: Ecological Revolution!... (read more) List Price $67.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende by Z S Strother Publisher Comments Who invents masks, and why? Such questions have rarely been asked, due to stereotypes of anonymous African artists locked into the reproduction of "traditional" models of representation. Rather than accept this view of African art as timeless and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Making of Great Men: Male Domination & Power among the New Guinea Baruya by Maurice Godelier Publisher Comments This book presents a detailed account of the lives of the Baruya, a tribal society in highlands of Papua New Guinea and will interest scholars and students of anthropology.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Representing the Past by Etsuko Kato Publisher Comments examination of the tea ceremony, this book radically revises mainstream discourses surrounding women and the tea ceremony in Japan. It will prove of interest to scholars of Japanese Studies, Gender Studies and anthropology alike.... (read more) Your price $175.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America by Bamo Ayi Publisher Comments Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal by William F Fisher Publisher Comments Examining the relationship between societal practice, historical processes, and culture in a Nepali society, this book tells the story of the Thakali's search for identity and their efforts to clarify and represent their culture and history.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exploring Ancient Egypt (Places in Time) by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture 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 add to wish list Uncommon Lives 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 add to wish list Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender & Kinship 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 add to wish list

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