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by John Monaghan  Publisher Comments "If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's... (read more)  List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Bonnie Stone Sunstein Publisher Comments FieldWorking, Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater's acclaimed textbook, is an engaging guide to the fundamentals of ethnographic study, complete with practical help for research and writing. Emphasizing civic responsibility and community... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adriana Petryna Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Goody Publisher Comments Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social... (read more) List Price $31.99 Your price $25.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments "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) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William A. Haviland Publisher Comments How do people learn and experience their culture? How do people make a living? What does it mean to be in a family? How do we make sense of peoples' beliefs and ritual practices? In exploring questions such as these, this cultural anthropology reader... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $36.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C. W. Ceram Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Vincent Publisher Comments A well-organized and clearly written exposition of not only political anthropology but also social anthropology in general, from its formative years to the present.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Arens Publisher Comments Belief in the existence of cannibalism just beyond the borders of one's own culture is a time-honored, universally accepted notion. The author of this provocative book has meticulously viewed the evidence from all field on the world's classic man-eaters,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Levi-strauss Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander M. Ervin Publisher Comments Provides the most up-to-date information on the skills perspectives and methodologies needed when working in today's international communities and organizations. The applied use of anthropology in current national and international settings. Practicing... (read more) List Price $49.70 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richley H. Crapo Publisher Comments Rather than present Cultural Anthropology as an encyclopedic array of somewhat unrelated facts, this highly successful text focuses on the relationships between these discrete facts, consistently explaining them within the broader context--as individual... (read more) List Price $88.45 Your price $71.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Molnar Publisher Comments This classic introduction to human variation has been updated to include the issues and controversies facing the contemporary study of diversity. Covers the adaptation of complex traits; how the race concept shapes our perspective of health and disease... (read more) List Price $73.15 Your price $58.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Viviana A. Zelizer Publisher Comments "Zelizer has a genius for detecting hidden order in everyday practices.... Gently but firmly she uses her discoveries to overturn widespread beliefs in the power of money to corrupt, standardize, and depersonalize social ties. Best of all, she writes of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Joralemon Publisher Comments "Exploring Medical Anthropology" is a concise and engaging introduction to the field written in an accessible, jargon-free language. Widely adopted, this text uses concrete cases and the author's personal research experience to present competing... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shu-min Huang Publisher Comments The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in southeast China describes in this book nearly fifty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie Stevenson Publisher Comments Arguing that socialism could return to the center of political life in advanced capitalist countries, this book aims to convince socialists and nonsocialists alike that there is both a strong moral case for economic democracy and a feasible strategy for... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aaron Podolefsky Publisher Comments This supplementary reader is composed of 38 classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara A. Purdy Publisher Comments Despite field conditions that often include bug bites, bad food, and nonexistent plumbing, legions of amateur archaeologists regularly take to the field - sometimes a muddy one - to dig up ceramic pots, animal bones, and stone spearheads. This book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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