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The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation by James L Newman Publisher Comments Tracing the development of Africa's peoples from their origins over four million years ago to the onset of the colonial era in the late nineteenth century, James Newman discusses the roles played by language, technology, occupation, and religion in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Search for the First Americans (Exploring the Ancient World) by David Meltzer Synopsis Written by leading scholars, each book in this series provides an up-to-date assessment of a particular area of the ancient world. Abundantly illustrated in full color, the series places readers at the cutting edge of modern archaeological thinking... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lost Tomb by Kent R Weeks Publisher Comments Kent Weeks made international headlines when, seventy feet below the surface of Egypt's Valley of the Kings he found the largest and most complicated mausoleum yet discovered, the tomb of Ramesses II's sons. Now for the first time, Weeks shares up-to-the-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greek Sculpture: Its Spirit and Its Principles (Temporis) by Edmund Von Mach Synopsis If the Soul is Christian, Beauty is Greek. Freud defines aesthetics as the intellectual construction of personal parameters that express themselves in sublime emotions. In Greek sculpture, man becomes God, and the gods lend their image to humanity... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 $4.00 (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

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   Stigmas of the Tamil Stage by Susan Seizer Publisher Comments "Susan Seizer's moving and unique perspective on the fate of popular cultural practices in an age and society dominated by the norms and prescriptions of bourgeois modernity makes her work important and insightful not just for scholars of South Asia but... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology) by Nina Etkin Publisher Comments Eating on the Wild Side spans the history of human-plant interactions to examine how wild plants are used to meet medicinal, nutritional, and other human needs. Drawing on nonhuman primate studies, evidence from prehistoric human populations, and field... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo by J L Thompson Publisher Comments Examines when, how and why our modern growth pattern evolved during the Plio-Pleistocene.... (read more) Your price $115.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 Vowels and Consonants with CDROM by Peter Ladefoged Publisher Comments This superb introduction to phonetics, with an accompanying CD, is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the sounds of language. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, descibes how languages use a variety of different sounds... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $23.95 (Used - Book W/audio Cd) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics by Norman E Whitten Publisher Comments IN the past decade, Ecuador has seen five indigenous uprisings, the emergence of the powerful Pachakutik political movement, and the strengthening of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Association of Black Ecuadorians, all... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $11.95 (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 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 $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook by Douglas Ubelaker Publisher Comments Fascinating, educational, and highly readable, "Bones" takes readers into the dark world of forensic science. Dr. Ubelaker, a frequent forensics consultant to the FBI, and Scammell, author of "Mortal Remains, " document a collection of cases that span... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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