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Cultural Anthropology Cultural Anthropology
by William A. (edt) Haviland

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Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of... (read more)

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Cultural Anthropology (12TH 07 Edition) Cultural Anthropology (12TH 07 Edition)
by carol Ember

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This comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology helps students understand how humans vary culturally and "why" they got to be that way. This new edition highlights migration and immigration in the context of globalization.... (read more)

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Faces of Anthropology (5TH 07 Edition) Faces of Anthropology (5TH 07 Edition)
by Kevin Rafferty

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This edition organizes its topics into ten sections for an overview of the entire focus of anthropology, including the traditional and recent approaches to anthropological study. The topics span the sub-fields of anthropology, fieldwork, subsistence and... (read more)

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Archaeology : Down To Earth (3RD 07 Edition) Archaeology : Down To Earth (3RD 07 Edition)
by David Hurst Thomas

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This new brief edition pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names-- David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History and Robert L. Kelly of the University of Wyoming?to bring a passionate, down-to-earth introduction to archaeological... (read more)

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Cultural Anthropology : Tribes, States, and the Global System (4TH 05 Edition) Cultural Anthropology : Tribes, States, and the Global System (4TH 05 Edition)
by John Bodley

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This text introduces basic concepts of cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues. The author challenges students to consider the "big" questions about the nature of cultural systems: How do... (read more)

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A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History
by Matt Cartmill

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What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was ataste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few fossils found in Africa in the 1920s seemed to point to hunting as the first human activity among our simian forebears-the... (read more)

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Biological Anthropology (5TH 08 Edition) Biological Anthropology (5TH 08 Edition)
by Michael Alan Park

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This concise introduction to biological anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. The text emphasizes themes and theories: facts are presented as supportive evidence rather than... (read more)

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Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropol 3RD Edition Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropol 3RD Edition
by Robert H Lavenda

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This very concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology is designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their... (read more)

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Seeing Anthropology : Cultural Anthropology Through Film -text Only (4TH 07 Edition) Seeing Anthropology : Cultural Anthropology Through Film -text Only (4TH 07 Edition)
by Karl G. Heider

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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)

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No Aging in India : Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (98 Edition) No Aging in India : Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (98 Edition)
by Lawrence Cohen

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This is an award-winning comparative ethnography of growing... (read more)

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Anthropology and Anthropologists : the Modern British School (3RD 96 Edition) Anthropology and Anthropologists : the Modern British School (3RD 96 Edition)
by Adam Kuper

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When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions and filled an awning gap in the market for introductory texts to social... (read more)

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Death Squad : the Anthropology of State Terror (00 Edition) Death Squad : the Anthropology of State Terror (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey A. (ed.) Sluka

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The first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on... (read more)

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Risk (99 Edition) Risk (99 Edition)
by Deborah Lupton

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With risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management as ever-expanding industries, we are now living in a "risk" society. In this book, Deborah Lupton examines why risk has come to such prominence at this particular point in history. She traces how... (read more)

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Anthropology : Exploration of Human Diversity - With CD (12TH 08 - Old Edition) Anthropology : Exploration of Human Diversity - With CD (12TH 08 - Old Edition)
by Conrad Kottak

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Written by Kottak, recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this text continues to offer a holistic, four-field perspective introduction to anthropology. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together"... (read more)

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An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses) An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses)
by Marc Auge

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Under what conditions is anthropology possible today, when a crisis of social meaning - a crisis that makes it more difficult to conceive and manage our relation to the other - makes the need for anthropology appear more clearly than ever before... (read more)

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Falling From Grace : Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence (99 Edition) Falling From Grace : Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence (99 Edition)
by Katherine S. Newman

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Anthropologist Katherine Newman offers an ethnographic examination of the fall from middle class status by Americans who thought their lives were secure. In addition to brief revisions throughout the book, chapter two of the original edition has been... (read more)

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Indigenous Aesthetics (98 Edition) Indigenous Aesthetics (98 Edition)
by Steven Leuthold

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What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making... (read more)

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Religions in Practice : Approach To the Anthropology of Religion (3RD 05 - Old Edition) Religions in Practice : Approach To the Anthropology of Religion (3RD 05 - Old Edition)
by John R. Bowen

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This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices, such as prayer, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and dress, as well as investigates major issues of gender, nation-states, and laws with respect to religion.... (read more)

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Anthropology : Contemporary Perspectives (8TH 01 Edition) Anthropology : Contemporary Perspectives (8TH 01 Edition)
by Phillip Whitten

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This collection of short readings on all aspects of anthropology conveys the excitement and relevance of contemporary anthropology. This book organizes readings around the major subdisciplines within anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural... (read more)

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Applied Anthropology (05 Edition) Applied Anthropology (05 Edition)
by Satish Kedia

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Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, edited by Satish Kedia and John van Willigen, comprises essays by prominent scholars on the potential, accomplishments, and methods of applied anthropology. Domains covered in the volume include specific... (read more)

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