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by Haviland And Walrath / Prins / Mcbride  Publisher Comments Explore evolution and prehistory through photos, examples, and anthropologists' studies with Haviland et al's EVOLUTION AND PREHISTORY. The authors' goal in writing this book is to provide you with a vivid, accessible text that shows how the field is... (read more)  List Price $88.95 Your price $55.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Frank E. Poirier Synopsis Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101... (read more) List Price $95.75 Your price $62.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joerg Fisch Publisher Comments "Burning Women "explores how the Indian Hindu custom of sati, or widow burning, has existed in various forms in most parts of the world. The practice of widow-burning combines strong spiritual beliefs in the hereafter with the more secular power... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa Wilson Publisher Comments In this unique investigation of the everyday lives of men in colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut, Lisa Wilson brings to life the domestic world of pre-Revolutionary New England. She finds that colonial men spent most of their time in a multigendered... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Ember Synopsis This comprehensive volume reflects recent anthropological research and controversial developments, while integrating features in each chapter to spark and maintain reader interest. A focus on applied anthropology discusses the history and types in the... (read more) List Price $106.50 Your price $72.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ellen Gruenbaum Publisher Comments Informed by five years of fieldwork in Sudan, the author studies indigenous and "outsider" perspectives on the traditional practice of female genital cutting.... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Osterweis (edt) Selig Publisher Comments This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian's highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. The articles reveal the richness and breadth of anthropology, covering not only the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Conrad P. Kottak Publisher Comments This careful revision of one of the best-selling Cultural Anthropology texts available now features dramatically revised coverage of kinship, families, and descent in Chapter 15, expanded coverage of ethnographic techniques in Chapter 2, new material on... (read more) List Price $105.65 Your price $71.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodore Schwartz Publisher Comments The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are prominent figures in psychological anthropology, and they write about recent developments in this field. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, the early practitioners in the forties and fifties... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Morris Publisher Comments In this important, scholarly, and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Haines Publisher Comments This brief introduction to cultural anthropology is designed in structure, content, format, and style to appeal to instructors who do not wish to use conventional texts, but instead wish to expose students directly to the cultural detail and personal... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leah Hager Cohen Publisher Comments Once upon a time, we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Logsdon Synopsis This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively argue is unique among American cities. The focus of Creole New Orleans is on the development of a colonial Franco... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Brantlinger Synopsis "Cultural Studies" has emerged in Britain and America higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah B. Gewertz Publisher Comments Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centers of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R. Jon Mcgee Publisher Comments A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological... (read more) List Price $107.25 Your price $74.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth L. Feder Publisher Comments Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Pharaoh's curses? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph B. Lambert Publisher Comments Where Stonehenge’s giant bluestones come from? Was the fall of the Roman Empire hastened by lead poisoning? How did amber get from the Baltic to Belize? In exploring these and other historical enigmas, Joseph Lambert expertly details the rich... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas L. Oliver Publisher Comments This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lola E. Romanucci-ross Publisher Comments This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in American Anthropologist as "must reading for all... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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