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Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk Synopsis This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization by Mario Blaser Publisher Comments Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China by Nancy N Chen Publisher Comments The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist by Fran Markowitz Publisher Comments Sex in the field -- the dilemma of whether to cover up or display sexual identities and desires during the course of anthropological fieldwork -- is one of the best-kept secrets in the discipline. Contending that the conventional pose of a genderless... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sexual Cultures: Community, Values, & Intimacy by Jeffrey Weeks Book News Annotation One of three volume of papers from a 1994 conference held at the University of Central Lancashire. Contributors demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual and how the sexual becomes a focal point for personal identity, values, and political action... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cooperation & Competition Among Primitve Peoples by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-544) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Current Studies in Linguistics #16: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fluid Signs by Valentine E Daniel Publisher Comments "Fluid Signs" is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Face: A Natural History by Daniel Mcneill Publisher Comments This "natural history" of the face unravels the surprising mysteries of one of the most familiar sights in everyday life, exploring the face's anatomy, its singularity, its ability to communicate, and its beauty.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $2.38 (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   In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush by Adam Bellow Publisher Comments Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mexican Kickapoo Indians (Dover Books on the American Indians) by Felippe Latorre Publisher Comments Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. Focus on why they left, why they settled in northern Mexico, how they live. "One of the most thorough and authentic studies..... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought by James D Faubion Publisher Comments Since the early 1970's, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. "Rethinking the Subject" brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya by Cynt Hoehler Fatton Publisher Comments The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the Luo region of western Kenya. This movement has fascinated students of history and religion for more than sixty years, but surprisingly... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $1.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth & Modernity in So. India by Cecilia Van Hollen Publisher Comments This is an ethnographic study of the ways in which modernity is impacting the experiences of poor women during childbirth in Tamil Nadu, South India, and of the cultural constructions of gender produced in this process.<P>... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (Body, Commodity, Text) by Hildi Hendrickson Publisher Comments "Innovative, rich, and engaging. This collection's concern with how the body surface mediates constructions of identity in colonial and post-colonial Africa makes an important contribution to ongoing scholarship on the body, clothing, and consumption in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town by Robert Carlsen Publisher Comments After a decade of military occupation known as la violencia, the Tz'utujil-speaking Maya of Santiago Atitlan stood up to the Guatemalan Army in 1990 and forced it to leave their town. Yet that act of solidarity did not close the widening internal... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor Publisher Comments In this widely praised work, you enter the nearly vanished world of the Australian Aborigines and discover a remarkable people who offer us a new perspective on our own lives and the future of our planet.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India by K Sivaramakrishnan Publisher Comments “This is a well-conceived and well-executed anthropological collection of essays.”—Lakshmi R. Iyer, United States Department of Agriculture “This collection sets a very high standard of scholarship in the social science literature... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poetics of Military Occupation by Smadar Lavie Publisher Comments The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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