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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 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 The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity by Fg Bailey Synopsis In The Civility Of Indifference, Bailey documents a case of ethnic strife that threatened the village forty years ago but did not consume it in bloodshed. The restraint, he suggests, reflected not compassion but a sense of inevitability.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Europe & the People Without History, with New Preface by Eric R Wolf Synopsis The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that... (read more) Your price $9.95 (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 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 $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Sirius connection :unlocking the secrets of ancient Egypt by Murry Hope Publisher Comments Offers a powerful message: by embracing this ancient wisdom the reader can again knowledge, enlightenment, and help bring about a peaceful future for our planet.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $13.50 (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

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 Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and index.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $14.95 (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 Women as Healers by Carol Sheph Mcclain Publisher Comments In "Women as Healers" 13 contributors explore the intersection of feminist anthropology and medical anthropology in eleven case studies of women in traditional and emergent healing roles in diverse parts of the world. In both mundane healing roles such... (read more) List Price $17.00 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 $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 The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa by Stephen Oppenheimer Publisher Comments About 80 millennia ago, out of one major exodus by migratory human ancestors from Africa—from Eritrea to Yemen (then to India and Australia, and eventually to Europe)—was the entire non-African world in all its racial and cultural diversity... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J Richerson Publisher Comments Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $12.00 (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

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