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The First Americans: Race, Evolution and the Origin of Native Americans by Joseph F Powell Publisher Comments Challenges traditional ideas of who the first Americans were and what their relationship with living Native American Indians is.... (read more) Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Understanding Reading Sixth Edition a Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read by Frank Smith Publisher Comments This  sixth edition--a classic in the field of psychology of reading--explains fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--linguistic, psychological, and social--and what is involved in learning to read. Fully updated, it examines... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences by Felicitas D Goodman Book News Annotation Goodman, founder of the Cuyamungue Institute, describes her discovery of certain postures that induce ecstatic experiences, the personal and mythical visions of subjects, and how to do it at home. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hidden History of the Human Race: Major Scientific Coverup Exposed by Michael A Cremo Publisher Comments Over the past two centuries, researchers have been finding bones and artifacts indicating that humans existed on earth millions of years ago. Mainstream science has acted as what Cremo and Thompson call a "knowledge filter" to suppress these facts that... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory by J M Adovasio Publisher Comments Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Red Land: The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert by Steven E Sidebotham Publisher Comments For thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial-though until now little understood-role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient Egypt by Schwaller De Lubicz Publisher Comments In these fictional accounts, the wisdom of Ancient Egypt is revealed through the eyes of a young Her-Bak, a candidate for initiation into the Inner Temple. The events related take place between the XX and XXI dynasties. In this volume Her-Bak's training... (read more) Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game by Paul Shepard Publisher Comments In what may be his boldest and most controversial book, Paul Shepard presents an account of human behavior and ecology in light of our past. In it, he contends that agriculture is responsible for our ecological decline and looks to the hunting and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C Corballis Publisher Comments It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down? The notion that language evolved not from animal cries but from manual and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Faith Fancies and Fetich: Or Yoruba Paganism by Stephan S Farrow Synopsis The writer when living in Yorubaland found that worship of the people showed a belief in Spiritual beings of various types, falling properly into four distinct classes, viz (A) a Supreme Deity, Olorun by Name; (B) a large class of Lesser Gods, or Orishas,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (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 Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter Publisher Comments Join Howard Carter in his fascinating odyssey toward the most dramatic archaeological find of the century--the tomb of Tutankhamen. Written by Carter only one year after his discovery, this book captures the overwhelming exhilaration of the find, the... (read more) List Price $4.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java by Suzanne Apr Brenner Publisher Comments While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome by Leslie White Publisher Comments One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline's most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) by Michael E Harkin Publisher Comments Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William Maples Publisher Comments From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In "Dead Men Do... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing Culture: The Poetics & Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford Publisher Comments The poetics and politics of ethnography.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list California Studies in Critical Human Geography #1: Changing Fortunes by Karl S Zimmerer Publisher Comments "A significant contribution to our understanding of the local management of plant and animal genetic resources in the context of existing agricultural systems. . . . This book will be widely discussed."--Enrique Mayer, Yale... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display by Ivan Karp Publisher Comments Bringing together museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology, Exhibiting Cultures engages in debate over meaning and representation that have accompanied and driven museums' efforts regarding... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thought Styles & Everyday Life: The Gamut from Rude to Elegant by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments We know we have thoughts, but are we aware that we have styles of thought? This book, written by one of the most gifted and celebrated social thinkers of our time, is a contribution to understanding the rules of the different styles of thinking. Author... (read more) Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ethnicity and Culture Amidst New "Neighbors": The Runa of Ecuador's Amazon Region (Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Serie (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Chang by Theodore Macdonald Publisher Comments This book provides the reader with a story that has been many years in the making. It is the story of the Runa, a Quichua-speaking Indian population in Ecuador's Amazon region. It offers a window onto another culture, an illustration of the relationship... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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