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by Adrian Praetzellis  Publisher Comments A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual about it -- except that it was found on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew find themselves in a tangled web of competing interests... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by James Peoples Publisher Comments This new ADVANTAGE SERIES version of HUMANITY: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY provides comprehensive coverage of cultural anthropology as well as broad focus on globalization. This theoretically balanced, critical thinking, research-based book... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price $43.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maurice Bloch Publisher Comments This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with... (read more) Your price $118.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marvin Harris Publisher Comments A comprehensive introduction to the four fields of anthropology (archaeology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics), this volume is designed to make all aspects of the subject clear and accessible. This edition has been updated... (read more) List Price $144.50 Your price $95.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chie Nakane Publisher Comments "A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" which deals also with Japanese... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Alan Park Publisher Comments This supplementary reader offers both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions made by biological anthropology. With nearly a third of the selections focusing on living populations, the 42 articles cover the... (read more) List Price $46.25 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Bates Publisher Comments Start your next research project with a powerful assist! <P> "Research Navigator(TM)" can be your best friend when you're facing a large research project. We know getting started is the hardest part, so "Research Navigator(TM)" takes you step-by... (read more) List Price $63.40 Your price $51.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Cole Publisher Comments Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar, builds on a fine-grained ethnographic account of social practices of remembering and forgetting in a rural community in order to examine the nature of social memory and the role of memory... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marilyn Yalom Publisher Comments "Fascinating ... Exhilarating ... Yalom's stately romp through history is variously enlightening, amusing, and enraging". -- The New York Times Book Reviews "A rich and fascinating theme ... "A History of the Breast" leaves this most powerful of bodily... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harald Wydra Publisher Comments This book examines change in post-1989 Poland by linking it analytically to the continuity of Poland's past. It argues that the first reality of objective-institutional changes is underpinned by the continuity of second realities. Political crises and... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments "A thoroughgoing introduction for the intelligent reader-written in a highly accessible style, with plenty of excellent examples and clear, sound argumentation. Hendry has done an outstanding job of laying out her vision of the important theoretical... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments America's foremost oral historian tackles the most difficult and complicated issue in America today -- race relations -- by interviewing nearly a hundred blacks and whites. The result is a riveting and deeply moving -- and frequently provocative -- look... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Boyd Publisher Comments "How Humans Evolved" uses the broad perspective of behavioral ecology, drawing on Robert Boyd's expertise in evolutionary theory and Joan Silk's specialty in primate behavior in a uniquely integrative... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price $75.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by De Coppet Daniel Publisher Comments Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elaine Kennedy-dubourdieu Book News Annotation Contributors from a wide range of countries and disciplines analyze affirmative active as it has evolved in different parts of the former British Empire around the world. They focus on the policy's application to benefit racial and ethnic groups that... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $86.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Manisha Roy Publisher Comments Drawing on personal experiences and interviews with others, Roy explores the frustrations and rewards in the lives of Hindu Bengali women in upper and upper-middle class families in India. Roy traces the psychological dimensions of these women as they... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Hancock Publisher Comments In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Annette B. Weiner Publisher Comments "Weiner provides not only a new perspective on social and natural reproduction but also a framework through which to compare societies. This is an original point of view that will have real effects on the direction of future fieldwork and comparative... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Bahn Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul R. Abramson Publisher Comments In this multidisciplinary study of human sexuality, an international team of scholars looks at the influences of nature and nurture, biology and culture, and sex and gender in the sexual experiences of humans and other primates. Using as its center the... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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