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Thought Styles & Everyday Life: The Gamut from Rude to Elegant
by Mary Douglas
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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)
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Faith Fancies and Fetich: Or Yoruba Paganism
by Stephan S Farrow
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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)
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
by Spencer Wells
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Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived... ( read more)
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Formations of Ritual: Colonial & Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil
by David Scott
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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the... ( read more)
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In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History
by Adam Bellow
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [512]-548) and index.... ( read more)
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The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society Series)
by Claude Levi Strauss
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"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."—Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting... ( read more)
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Culture, Ethnicity, and Justice in the South: The Southern Anthropological Society, 1968-1971
by Southern Anthropolog
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An important anthology putting the leading topics in Southern anthropology in the context of the 1960s. Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society No. 1, Essays on Medical Anthropology (1968); No. 2, Urban Anthropology: Research Perspectives and... ( read more)
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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
by Faye D Ginsburg
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A pathbreaking collection of essays in the ethnography of media--a burgeoning new area in anthropology. The co-editors are powerhouses, as are the contributors.... ( read more)
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Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy
by Douglas R Holmes
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Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and... ( read more)
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The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon
by Blanca Muratorio
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Blanca Muratorio introduces us to Rucuyaya Alonso, a Quichua elder from the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon. Grandfather Alonso's story spans a century, as his narrative incoporates oral tradition learned from both his father and grandfather. The book alternates... ( read more)
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The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language and Constrained Connectionism (Neural Network Modeling & Connectionism)
by Terry Regier
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Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in... ( read more)
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No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of the Smithsonian's Top Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for a 10,000-Year-Old Skeleton
by Jeff Benedict
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.... ( read more)
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Africa
by John Reader
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Reader and Lewis render a remarkable portrait of the continent, capturing the complex, diverse life story of Africa's many peoples, myriad landscapes, and teeming wildlife. To be released in conjunction with PBS and National Geographic's eight-hour TV... ( read more)
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An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition
by Paul Sillitoe
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ry text to the peoples and cultures of Melanesia for undergraduate studies in general anthropology.... ( read more)
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Doing Our Own Thing
by John Mcwhorter
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"Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." The Economist "Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something [we decorate out of a... ( read more)
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Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
by William Grah Sumner
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This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity,... ( read more)
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Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
by Jon Manchip White
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Drawing on a wealth of archeological evidence, author Jon Manchip White presents a remarkably accurate picture of Egyptian life throughout dynastic times—from the end of the third millennium to the Greek occupation in 330 BC. Because social... ( read more)
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Family Web: A Story of India (Sargeant Beef Mystery)
by Sarah Hobson
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For Several Months Sarah Hobson lived in a small South Indian village with a family of twenty-six while researching a film. She observed and recorded their way of life, gaining the close confidence of the women. She reveals the hopes, ambitions and... ( read more)
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
by Paul Rabinow
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Rarely have anthropologists regarded fieldwork as a serious object of study, although it is tacitly accepted as their major activity. How valid is the process? To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and... ( read more)
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Mummy Congress
by Heather Pringle
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In 1998, Heather Pringle visited the remote Chilean port of Arica for the World Congress on Mummy Studies. This book introduces us to the eccentric world of the researchers and academics who investigate such phenomena as the child mummies of the... ( read more)
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