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Biographical Objects (98 Edition) by Janet Hoskins Publisher Comments In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Japanese Sense of Self (92 Edition) 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 $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State & the Universal Exhibition 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 Archaeology and the Old Testament (98 Edition) 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 Private Life Under Socialism : Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (03 Edition) by Yunxiang Yan Publisher Comments "The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character and... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle (93 Edition) 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 The Theory and Ethnography of African Social Formations. the Case of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms (Codesria Book Series) 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 Village in the Vaucluse 3RD Edition 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 Cultural Anthropology (9TH 07 Edition) by Serena Nanda Publisher Comments Renowned for its outstanding integration of rich ethnographies into the core text, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Ninth Edition continues to bring you excellent coverage of cultures from around the world. The text also continues to emphasize contemporary issues... (read more) List Price $129.40 Your price $104.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (2ND 07 Edition) by Rebecca Stein Publisher Comments The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft Second Edition   Philip L. Stein Rebecca Stein     Basic Approach   This concise introductory textbook emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Anthropology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Cultural Anthropology (3RD 98 Edition) 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 Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds (Learning, Development, & Conceptual Change) 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 Evolution of Human Societies : From Foraging Group To Agrarian State (2ND 00 Edition) by Allen W. Johnson Publisher Comments By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies. Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cambridge Cultural Social Studies: Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice 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) Your price $85.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Producing Guanxi : Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village (97 Edition) by Andrew B. Kipnis Publisher Comments "This is a rich and well-reflected ethnographic text that captures a core feature of both traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. The richness and variety of ethnographic descriptions reveal the author's meticulous fieldwork and his insightful and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Some Trouble With Cows : Making Sense of Social Conflict (94 Edition) by Beth Roy Publisher Comments "This is an extremely important piece of work. In an unpretentious fashion, Roy challenges the traditional wisdom on communal riots and raises bold new questions about how they might be understood. A lucid piece of writing, "Some Trouble with Cows is a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kids' Stuff : Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (97 Edition) by Gary Cross Publisher Comments To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbiesandreg; and Ninja Turtlesandreg;, Tinkertoysandreg; and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fashion As Communication (2ND 02 Edition) 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 Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines (99 Edition) by Fenella Cannell Publisher Comments The lowland Philippines, in contrast to the apparently "exotic", "tribal" areas, has for many years been thought of as a strangely Westernized place, without a cultural life of its own. This innovative and important book shows that this perception is a... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering by Alfred Korzybski Publisher Comments This book is primarily a study of man and ultimately embraces all the great qualities and problems of man. As a study of man it takes into consideration all the characteristics which make man what he is. Contents: Method and Processes of Approach to a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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