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Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief, and Society
by Richard L Warms
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Sacred Realms is a comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of religion that presents and defines key concepts with fifty-five classic and current essays by leading specialists. The anthology has wide geographical scope and presents balanced... ( read more)
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Histories of Anthropology Annual #01: Histories of Anthropology Annual
by Regna (edt) Darnell
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Histories of Anthropology Annual promotes diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology will be included, along with... ( read more)
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Body Thoughts
by Andrew Strathern
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Provides an excellent review of anthropological thought on the body... ( read more)
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What Are the Animals to Us"": Approaches from Science, Religion, Folklore, Literature, and Art
by David Aftandilian
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From the first woolly mammoths painted in exquisite detail on Palcolithic cave walls to contemporary depictions of anthropomorphized mice as heroes of animated films and fiction, animals have played crucial roles in human cultures around the world. In... ( read more)
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Three Faces of Beauty-PB
by Susan Ossman
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"Ossman's trajectory is like the braiding and weaving of hair, like a dance of nimble fingers and scissors. She achieves a rare vividness for which anthropologists often strive but rarely attain."--James Faubion, Rice University<BR>
"Susan Ossman... ( read more)
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Patterns of Culture
by Ruth Benedict
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For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an... ( read more)
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The Life of a Simple Man
by Emile Guillaumin
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A classic in France, this moving first-person story can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians of 19th-century French peasant life.... ( read more)
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A'Aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self (Stories in Melanesian Anthropology)
by Michele Stephen
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Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, "A'aisa's Gifts" is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of... ( read more)
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Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Paul Rabinow
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This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal... ( read more)
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Intimate Colonialism: Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)
by Laurie L Charles
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A lyrical, autoethnographic study of a woman's Peace Corps tour, showing the personal, intimate side of development work and the lasting impressions on both the worker and the community.... ( read more)
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Representations and Contradictions: Ambivalence Towards Images/Theatre/Fiction/Relics and Sexuality
by Jack Goody
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This is an investigation of how societies and cultures in different times and places have represented themselves in images and words, and of the ways in which such representations, which relate to religion, ideology and culture, have been resisted. It... ( read more)
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The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
by Serge Gruzinski
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"Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. <BR>Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in "The... ( read more)
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The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies: Economic Disparity, Cultural Diversity and Development
by J E Goldthorpe
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An analysis of the disparity between rich and poor countries, and a discussion of the problems of the poor countries.... ( read more)
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Life of the Ancient Egyptians
by Eugen Strouhal
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"Strouhal's book is essentially a descriptive ethnography of ancient Egypt. Its 20 concise chapters lucidly summarize the evidence -- textual, artistic, and archaeological -- for such topics as childhood, education, courtship and marriage, farming and... ( read more)
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Language War
by Robin Tolmac Lakoff
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The pioneering author of Language and Women's Place and Talking Power brings sociolinguistics to the family room with an entertaining analysis of the language battles taking place on our tv screens every night.... ( read more)
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Shamanism (Quest Book)
by Shirley Nicholson
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A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.... ( read more)
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Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word
by Willow Rober Powers
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This practical handbook aims to clarify the need for and the use of transcription methodology and provides a useful, efficient guide to creating good transcripts for a variety of people using ethnographic methods. Appropriate for varying levels of... ( read more)
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
by Marjorie Shostak
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This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press.
This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... ( read more)
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Egypt in Late Antiquity
by Roger S Bagnall
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Egypt in Late Antiquity brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to our understanding of the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire.... ( read more)
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Conversations with Mummies: New Light on the Lives of the Ancient Egyptians
by Rosalie David
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As the delicately painted mummy case moves slowly through the CAT scanner, remarkable images appear. Artificial eyes have been placed in the sockets. Between the bandages lie pieces of jewelry, a gold vulture with outstretched wings, and a stone beetle... ( read more)
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