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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 The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples by Lotte Hughes Synopsis Indigenous peoples have long suffered from Exoticization. Outsiders elevate their beauty and difference but do not see beyond this to the problems they face. This title looks beyond the exotic images, tracing stories of indigenous peoples from their... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Culture in the Age of Three Worlds by Michael Denning Publisher Comments Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $14.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Invitation to Anthropology by Luke E Lassiter Publisher Comments Lassiter's accessible introduction to anthropology encourages students to evaluate its relevance in our increasingly complex world. Part I focuses on the underlying assumptions and concepts that have driven anthropological theory and practice since its... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Late Editions #0001: Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation by George E Marcus Publisher Comments Encompassing a range of disciplines—notably anthropology, politics, history, comparative literature, and philosophy—the unprecedented annual publication Late Editions exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented challenges facing cultural... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Warrior Women Amazons of Dahomey & Natur by Robert Edgerton Publisher Comments Some prominent anthropologists have been joined by an eminent military historian in declaring that military combat - at all times and in all places - has been a male activity. They advance many reasons for this pattern, some more plausible than others... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons Publisher Comments This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the missing links between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list One World, Many Cultures by Stuart Hirschberg Publisher Comments "A truly global, multicultural, and cross-cultural reader, One World, Many Cultures features 60 selections by major authors from 31 countries." The readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender, region, and nation, challenging... (read more) List Price $51.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list South Asian Commun Catalysts Chang by Sofia Chandra Gool Publisher Comments This book draws on the strengths that characterize communities and shows how these strengths can be put to use in improving education. Inspired by the South Asian communities with whom she worked, the author considers also Black African and dual heritage... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.95 (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   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 Introducing Anthropology (Introducing...) 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 $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mal Uocchiuambiguityevil Eye (Anthropological Horizons) by Sam Migliore Publisher Comments The Evil Eye Has Received Considerable Attention in scholarly literature from disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Much of this literature attempts to identify and explain the phenomenon in a number of ways -- culture-bound syndrome... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (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 $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology by Richard A Shweder Publisher Comments Why do American children sleep alone instead of with their parents? Why do middle-aged Western women yearn for their youth, while young wives in India look forward to being middle-aged? In these provocative essays, one of the most brilliant advocates of... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia by Melissa L Caldwell Publisher Comments Social support in the New Russia.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies by H C Coombs Publisher Comments A plea for a just society, this book is about reconciliation with Australia??'s Aboriginal people.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modernity, an Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there has been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is ethnographic work... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Dwellers on the Nile by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Beginning with a history of ancient Egypt, the author then discusses daily life of the people, examines the Egyptian family and school, furniture, jewelry, food and drink, work and play; the Egyptian religion, medicine, much mmore.<BR>... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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