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by Abraham Rosman  About the Author Abraham Rosman received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. His first fieldwork was with the Kamuri of Bornu Province, in northern Nigeria. He has taught at Vassar College, Antioch College, and Barndard, College, Columbia University, where he... (read more)  List Price $78.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jean Vercoutter Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Brown Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl A Hammerschlag Publisher Comments This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.While working... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nora Haenn Publisher Comments "[A] solid demonstration of the contributions of anthropology to understanding and developing solutions to environmental problems." —Environmental Conservation The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Winston Publisher Comments This definitive visual guide takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. From evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future aspects of human life, this book examines the qualities that all humans share and profiles more than 250... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nelli Sheffer Publisher Comments Visit open-air and farmers' markets all over the globe with noted cookbook author and food critic Mimi Sheraton, who provides a lively introduction to each region, recipes, and anecdotes about local culinary traditions.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Ubelaker Book News Annotation Dr. Ubelaker is curator of anthropology at the Smithsonian and regular consultant in forensic anthropology for the FBI laboratories. His collaboration with Scammell has produced a casebook written with verve, without sacrificing science. The two... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ana Mari Bacigalupo Publisher Comments The first comprehensive study on Mapuche shamans' gendered practices, Shamans of the Foye Tree offers new perspectives on this crucial intersection of spiritual, social, and political power.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments The author of "Without Reservation" investigates the world of the Smithsonian's top forensic scientist, Doug Owsley, who has worked with remains from ancient times to some of the most notorious cases today. 35 photos.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Aveni Publisher Comments The great divide between teaching "intelligent design" and evolution in U.S. schools has brought to the public eye a struggle that author and archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni argues is as old as culture itself. All societies seek to understand the natural... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee R Berger Publisher Comments Paleoanthropology: the very word sounds daunting, a dry-as-dust, arcane academic discipline -- but nothing could be further from the truth, as this fascinating and provocative book makes clear. In fact, the search for human origins is a passionate, vital... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Maria Heimer Publisher Comments Scholars from around the world reflect on their own fieldwork practice in order to give practical advice and discuss more general theoretical points.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $24.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert G Lake Publisher Comments The author offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of Native American shamanism, describing what it means to answer the calling and become a medicine man. He also explores ways of incorporating the self-healing practices of Native American medicine... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments "Praise for the first edition: <BR>"Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard B Lee Publisher Comments This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments There are approximately 6,000 languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, a noted linguistics professor argues that language is a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Publisher Comments From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments 9 of the most interesting and important Egyptian legends in hieroglyphic texts with literal translations on facing pages. Included are The Legend of the Creation, The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind, The Legend of Isis and Osiris, and more, enhanced... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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