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Tibetan Civilization by R A Stein Publisher Comments An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery by Richard Stengel Publisher Comments Okay, who was the first flatterer? If you guessed Satan, you'd be close, but according to You're Too Kind, flattery began with chimpan-zees, who groom each other all day long. In fact, flattery is an adaptive behavior that has helped us survive since... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ritual, Performance, Media (Asa Monographs 35) by Fel Hughes Freeland Publisher Comments How can media and performance studies take a place in the discipline of anthropology? IRitual, Performance, Media demonstrates how individual inventiveness makes society a process of dynamic interaction between creativity and convention. Human beings... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contraversions #13: The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia by Hagar Salamon Publisher Comments A fascinating ethnography of the Ethiopian Jews living in Israel and their memory of life among the majority Ethiopian Christians.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Male and Female by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Significance of the Questions We AskHow are men and women to think about their maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth century, in which so many of our old ideas must be made new? Have we over-domesticated men, denied their natural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City by James T. Siegel Publisher Comments In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs by Bierbrier Publisher Comments Fascinating glimpse of the people - their lives, loves, disputes & work - that built the pharaohs tombs nearly 3000 years... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Speaking Relationally: Culture, Communication, and Interpersonal Connection (Guilford Series on Personal Relationships) by Kristine L Fitch Publisher Comments Deepening our understanding of the social context of interpersonal interaction, this book examines the communication practices through which members of a particular culture construct and maintain their relationships. The author presents an ethnographic... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forbidden Red: Widowhood in Urban Nepal by Kathey Lee Galvin Publisher Comments In Nepal, red symbolizes life, vibrancy, and passion--a color and existence that is often denied to women who have lost their husbands, The compelling stories of Sodha, Anju, and others vividly portray the plight of widows in this third-world country.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Angora Matta (Music/Culture) by Marta El Savigliano Publisher Comments Operatic, ethnographic thriller tests the boundaries between art and scholarship.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.75 (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   The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy by John Renshaw Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-290) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Learning Capitalist Culture Deep in TH by Douglas Foley Publisher Comments Learning Capitalist Culture presents an ethnographic study of a small, economically-depressed, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town. Like many communities in the Southwest, North Town has undergone cultural and political change since the late... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures) by Lesley Alexan Sharp Publisher Comments In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bollingen Series #11: The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Zimmer Publisher Comments Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations by John Knight Book News Annotation Basing this work on his ethnographic fieldwork in mountain villages of Japan's Kii Peninsula in the late 1980s (for a doctoral thesis submitted in 1992 to the London School of Economics), Knight (Queens U. Belfast) examines an issue relevant to any... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mummy Dearest by Ron Beckett Publisher Comments A feast for the eyes as well as the mind.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania by Liisa H. Malkki Publisher Comments In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Body (Living Planet Book) by Ptolemy Tompkins Publisher Comments Ptolemy Tompkins’s spellbinding plunge into the history and meaning of Mesoamerican civilizations—first published a decade ago—is more compelling now than ever. Combining scholarly knowledge with visionary perception and sensitivity, he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments Fascinating account of Egypt, predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing. Full reference to recent... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 by Franz Boas Publisher Comments "The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well. .... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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