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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia
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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... ( read more)
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Japanese Culture 4TH Edition
by H Paul Varley
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Japanese Culture has been called "a masterpiece of much in little space" (Booklist). For more than two decades it has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text... ( read more)
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
by William L Rathje
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It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is... ( read more)
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A country of strangers :blacks and whites in America
by David K Shipler
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A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and... ( read more)
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by Erving Goffman
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"Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the... ( read more)
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
by C W Ceram
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C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the... ( read more)
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Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Levi Strauss
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First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and... ( read more)
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Mountain Goddess : Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage (91 Edition)
by William S. Sax
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Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human... ( read more)
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Cultural Nature of Human Development (03 Edition)
by Barbara Rogoff
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Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with... ( read more)
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
by Howard Bloom
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This book presents a new theory of evolution--a perennially popular concept.... ( read more)
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
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This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. Harris shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions.... ( read more)
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Development of Cognitive Anthropology (95 Edition)
by Roy D'andrade
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In a historical account of the development of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organized within and between human minds. He begins by examining research carried out in the 1950s and 1960s concerned with how... ( read more)
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Sociobiology, Abridged Edition (80 Edition)
by Edward O. Wilson
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Cultural Anthropology / With CD-rom (11TH 04 - Old Edition)
by Carol Ember
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'This comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. This new edition highlights migration and immigration in... ( read more)
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Fieldwork Under Fire : Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (95 Edition)
by Carolyn Nordstrom
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"Required reading for anyone about to leave for the field. . . . A timely, deserving, and original contribution to a rapidly growing body of literature on the study of violence."--Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason... ( read more)
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When Bodies Remember : Experiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa (07 Edition)
by Didier Fassin
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"Didier Fassin makes a compelling case against behaviorist approaches that dominate AIDS research. Using a vivid mosaic of public controversies and ethnographic vignettes, Fassin works through the controversial denials of South African President Thabo... ( read more)
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Japan's Competing Modernities : Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930 (98 Edition)
by Sharon A. (ed.) Minichiello
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Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii, or "Taisho democracy". While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought... ( read more)
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The Meaning of Food
by Patricia Harris
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No matter who we are or where we live, our lives revolve around food. Much more than simple sustenance, food is part of our culture and our traditions. Everything about eating - including what we eat, how it tastes, who prepares it, and who's at the... ( read more)
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Japanese Sense of Self (92 Edition)
by Nancy R. (ed.) Rosenberger
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This book looks at how the Japanese see themselves and others and challenges many Western assumptions about Japanese society.... ( read more)
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Fragments of Culture : the Everyday of Modern Turkey (02 Edition)
by Deniz Kandiyoti
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Fragments of Culture explores the evolving modern daily life of Turkey. Through analyses of language, folklore, film, satirical humor, the symbolism of Islamic political mobilization, and the shifting identities of diasporic communities in Turkey and... ( read more)
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