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Lost Cities of North & Central America (Lost Cities Series) by David H Childress Publisher Comments Rogue adventurer and maverick archaeologist Childress takes the reader on unforgettable journeys in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. Join him as he crosses deserts, mountains, and jungles in search of legendary cities, vast gold treasure... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oglala women :myth, ritual, and reality by Maria Powers Publisher Comments Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments In a profoundly optimistic book, anthropologist Bateson takes readers on a fascinating journey to exotic settings--from a Persian garden to an Israeli youth movement, from a Philippine village to a bus full of Tibetan monks--to show the wealth of meaning... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Forest People (Touchstone Books) by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments "The Forest People" -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.<P... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The El Mozotet Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights (Hegemony and Experience) by Leigh Binford Publisher Comments In relating the story of this tragic event, Binford restores a sense of history and social identity to the fallen people of this Salvadoran village. Drawing on interviews he conducted with El Mozote--area residents, he offers a rich ethnographic and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society by Webb Keane Publisher Comments "I predict the book will be cited frequently by leaders in the field for some time to come. The analysis is exacting and the scholarship absolutely first-rate."--Kenneth M. George, author of "Showing Signs of Violence "An amazing book. . . . A deeply... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community by Henry S Sharp Publisher Comments In August 1975 at Foxholm Lake on the reserve of the Chipewyan, a Northern Dene people, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the anthropologist Henry S. Sharp and two members of the Mission Band encountered a loon. Loons are prized for their meat and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Milford Wolpoff Publisher Comments Where do humans come from? How did they evolve? How did different races come into existence? The quest for modern human origins has both fascinated and divided people for centuries. Theories of race and questions of whether humans can be categorized in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women by Lionel Tiger Publisher Comments "This provocative book raises questions about the awesome influences of nanotechnology and genetic engineering on the future of human sexuality and social structure. Highly recommended." (Library Journal) "Lionel Tiger, a pioneer of biological... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rules and Representations by Noam Chomsky Review "From time to time, ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside linguistics to some theses stated twenty-five years ago by Noam Chomsky. These proposals have... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $11.21 (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   Turtle Island Alphabet: A Lexicon of Native American Symbols & Culture by Gerald Hausman Review "[Turtle Island Alphabet] is a beautiful book...the pinnacle of Hausman's lifelong work of illuminating the wisdom, teachings, and lore of native peoples." New Mexico... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Lords of Palenque by Victor Perera Synopsis A journalist and anthropologist describe their stay among a Mexican Indian tribe descended from the Maya and recount what they learned of the Indian's mythology and culture.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voyages of the Pyramid Builders by Robert Schoch Publisher Comments Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom Boellstorff Publisher Comments Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going by Marvin Harris Publisher Comments Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Silences by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Resistance: An Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism by Maria Bargh Publisher Comments New Zealand is one of the world leaders of neoliberalism, and since 1984 its government has pursued neoliberal policies with a confidence that few other governments possess. Resistance is a collection by New Zealand indigenous Mā ori academics... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Essentials of Anthropology by Michael V Angrosino Publisher Comments Discusses human evolution and development, human adaptation to the environment, culture, society, the individual, social organization, social stratification and transaction, symbolic expressions, and anthropology and the future.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature by David Suzuki Publisher Comments The ecological answers and solutions we need to our current global environmental crisis are embedded in this living mosaic of profound indigenous insights into the workings of the natural world. These ancestral and contemporary natural perspectives and... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids by Michele Rut Gamburd Publisher Comments According to a common Sinhala proverb, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle". In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that... (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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