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by John Mcmillan  Publisher Comments McMillan takes readers on a lively tour, from the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-communist economies.... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Arthur Kleinman Publisher Comments "Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William S. Sax Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim White Publisher Comments Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert L. Carneiro Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Scheper-hughes Publisher Comments ""Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics," in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."--Conor Cruise O... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Annual Edition Publisher Comments This Thirty-First Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an... (read more) List Price $27.85 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Rogoff Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.75 Your price $19.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Edwards Publisher Comments Japanese weddings have become thoroughly commercial affairs, with the vast majority now conducted at specialized establishments that offer, at great cost, lavish services for the Shinto ceremony and the ensuring reception. The postwar expansion of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marvin Harris Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily A. Schultz Publisher Comments Now more accessible and student-friendly in this full-color seventh edition, Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition explores how cultural creativity, human agency, and the material conditions of everyday life interact together to... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price $60.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janet L. Finn Publisher Comments This tale of two cities--Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile--traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judy S. (ed.) Deloache Publisher Comments ???Manuals??? for new parents illustrating many models of babyhood, shaped by different values and cultures.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Sabloff Publisher Comments Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearths of civilization. Out of a varied landscape grew some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Standard histories tend to focus on the individual... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David I. Kertzer Publisher Comments Although in its early years anthropology often used demographic research and showed interest in demographic issues, anthropology and demography have more recently grown to distrust each other's guiding assumptions and methods. Demographers have stressed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kottak Conrad Publisher Comments This concise text offers both a serious scientific introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology and a holistic approach to the course. Interspersed through it, innovative "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology’s subfields... (read more) List Price $134.75 Your price $89.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Watkins Publisher Comments As a Federal archaeologist and a Choctaw Indian, Joe Watkins is uniquely qualified to speak about the relationship between American Indians and archaeologists. Tracing the often stormy relationship between the two, Watkins highlights the key arenas where... (read more) List Price $37.75 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Bloom Publisher Comments This book presents a new theory of evolution--a perennially popular concept.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karl G. Heider Publisher Comments Seeing Anthropology continues to be the only cultural anthropology text available that allows for easy integration of ethnographic films into the introductory cultural anthropology course. This text truly incorporates films within the text by... (read more) List Price $87.40 Your price $70.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy D'andrade Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.99 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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