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by Li Minghuan Publisher Comments A highly informative report on Chinese immigrants in the Netherlands, We Need Two Worlds is a clear and well-structured dissertation which presents a considerable amount of new material to existing knowledge of Chinese associations and their role in the... (read more) Your price $44.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Amos Rapoport Synopsis An historical approach to the broad variety of primitive and peasant dwellings and the forces that affect them.... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David T. Courtwright Publisher Comments A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gary Ferraro Publisher Comments CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE goes beyond the basic outline of introductory materials by applying the theories, insights, and methods of cultural anthropology to those situations that students are likely to encounter in their personal and... (read more) List Price $121.60 Your price $82.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nancy R. (ed.) Rosenberger Publisher Comments This book looks at how the Japanese see themselves and others and challenges many Western assumptions about Japanese society.... (read more) List Price $37.99 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawrence A Hirschfeld Publisher Comments Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alfred J. Hoerth Publisher Comments Archaeology & the Old Testament is a fantastic introduction to archaeology and the Bible. Written by Alfred J. Hoerth, former Director of Archaeology at Wheaton Graduate School, this book is full of time lines, photos, and explanations of archaeological... (read more) List Price $44.99 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Archie Mafeje Publisher Comments A wide-ranging introduction to Wole Soyinka's dramatic literature and an in-depth and comprehensive study of satire in fourteen of Soyinka's plays from Childe Internationale to King Baabu, and the sketches in Before the Blackout. Ebewo treats satire as... (read more) Your price $25.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurence Wylie Publisher Comments Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his study of... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Ken Hamblin Publisher Comments A compelling, provocative look at the issues that have Americans talking and debating, from one of America's most controversial and popular talk-radio hosts. Ken Hamblin is one of the most popular radio talk-show hosts in America, with a daily audience... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joanne B. (ed.) Eicher Publisher Comments From African-American women's headwraps to beauty pageants in Swaziland, this absorbing book explores ethnicity through the frequently noticed but less often analyzed human phenomenon of dress. The authors -- ethnographers, folklorists, and textile... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret A. Gwynne Book News Annotation This introductory textbook describes how anthropology can be applied to the efforts to remedy specific social problems, both domestically and internationally. The methods, theory, history, and ethics of the discipline concern less than one-third of the... (read more) List Price $57.20 Your price $46.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roger M. Keesing Publisher Comments CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the... (read more) List Price $164.50 Your price $108.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Theresa A. (ed.) Singleton Publisher Comments The moral mission archaeology set in motion by black activists in the 1960s and 1970s sought to tell the story of Americans, particularly African Americans, forgotten by the written record. Today, the archaeological study of African-American life is no... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Penelope Harvey Publisher Comments "Hybrids of Modernity" considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roger Friedland Publisher Comments Where American sociologists once spurned culture, they embrace and explore it today. This introduction to some of the best theorizing in contemporary cultural sociology focuses specifically on questions of power, the sacred and cultural production... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $63.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Allan Fox Publisher Comments The myth of Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn is shattered by Richard Allan Fox, Jr., who demonstrates that the troopers' end came amid terror and disarray, with no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. Using... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gary Cross Publisher Comments To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies® and Ninja Turtles® , Tinkertoys® and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Malcolm Barnard Publisher Comments What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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