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Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals by Isabelle Nabokov Publisher Comments This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $3.25 (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 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 Death and the Regeneration of Life by Maurice Bloch Publisher Comments It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon in the light of new information from China, India,... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution 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 add to wish list Early Man 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 add to wish list To Weave and Sing by David M Guss Publisher Comments 'To Weave And Sing is a beautiful book that crosses disciplines--a celebration of the human imagination that transcends cultural barriers. Contemporary artists can envy the subtlety and coherence of the Yekuana basket, while the rest of us wonder at a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Katherine Verdery Publisher Comments Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On Being a Conceptual Animal 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 add to wish list The Social Ecology of Religion 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 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   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 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 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 Setting the Virgin on Fire 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 add to wish list La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance 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 add to wish list Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India 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 add to wish list A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930 by Don D Fowler Publisher Comments The history of anthropological and archaeological endeavor in the American Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the New Deal.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Iron, Gender, & Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies 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 add to wish list Human Origins: The Story of Our Species 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 add to wish list

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