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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 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 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 E. Valentine Daniel Publisher Comments How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna L Dehavenon Publisher Comments This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter--one of the most basic elements of human adaptation--now experienced by many Americans. Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Jurmain Publisher Comments Jurmain's best-selling text provides you with the course content you need to help you pass your biological/physical anthropology course. Through clear discussions that move from 'description' to interpretation, compelling visual content, cutting-edge... (read more) List Price $115.95 Your price $93.00 (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 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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by Jackson Lears Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-365) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Mcelroy Publisher Comments The newest edition of the premier teaching text in medical anthropology is thoroughly revised to reflect new developments in the field. Widespread awareness of emerging infectious diseases and global environmental change makes the ecological perspective... (read more) List Price $57.75 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James H. Mcdonald Publisher Comments This new reader offers a collection of articles focusing on practicing anthropology at a time when readers are increasingly looking for ways to apply their anthropology degrees to their professional lives. This book gives a broad overview of the applied... (read more) List Price $59.75 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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