Category: Anthropology

Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press : November 1993

Seller ID: 90061

ISBN-13: 9780253207791

Including essays, short stories, poetry, and photographs by Middle Eastern and Western scholars and writers with first-hand experience, this interdisciplinary volume is organized around five themes: generations and life passages; gender relations; home, community, and work; popular expression of religion; and performance and entertainment.
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Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books : August 2008

Seller ID: 40673

ISBN-13: 9780822343080

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples a...
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In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins (Adventure Press)

By: Berger, Lee R.,Hilton-Barber, Brett

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Publisher: National Geographic : June 2000

Seller ID: 88333

ISBN-13: 9780792276821

Binding: Hardcover

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"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 pursuit, a world filled with larger-than-life personalities and intense rivalries, a field where sudden insights and imaginative leaps must be backed up by meticulous forensic reconstructions, and competing theories of our evolution may stand or fall on the evidence of a single, million-year-old fragment of bone. "In the Footsteps of Eve,"...
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Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System

By: Bodley, John H.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Mayfield Pub Co : June 1997

Seller ID: 20522

ISBN-13: 9781559346764

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 10)

By: Bourgois, Philippe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : July 1996

Seller ID: 72660

ISBN-13: 9780521574600

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this compelling study of the crack business in East Harlem, Philippe Bourgois argues that a cultural struggle for respect has led some residents of 'El Barrio' away from the legal job market, and into a downward spiral of crime and poverty. During his many years living in the neighborhood, Bourgois eventually gained the confianza of enough Barrio residents to present their hopes, plans, and disappointments in their own words. The result is an engaging and often disturbing look at the problems of the inner-city, America's greatest domestic failing.
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The Axemaker's Gift A Double Edged History of Human Culture

By: Burke, James,Ornstein, Robert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons A Grosset/Putnam Book : September 1995

Seller ID: 92793

ISBN-13: 9780399140884

Binding: Hardcover

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The Origin of Species

By: Darwin, Charles

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Mentor : January 1958

Seller ID: 55892

ISBN: B0016G0AFC

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)

By: Diamond, Jared M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : January 2006

Seller ID: 86163

ISBN-13: 9780060845506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Wonderful....Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist's eye and a philosopher's cunning." --Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the SensesIn this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist Jared Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world . . . and the means to irrevocably destroy it. We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimp...
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The Aborigines and Maori: The History of the Indigenous Peoples in Australia and New Zealand

By: Editors, Charles River

Price: $5.00

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform : October 2018

Seller ID: 12009

ISBN-13: 9781729564394

Binding: Trade Paperback

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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of Australia would take place rapidly. Within 20 years of the first British settlements being established, the British presence in Terra Australis was secure, and no other major power was likely to mount a challenge. In 1815, Napoleon would be defeated at Waterloo, and soon afterwards would be standing on the barr...
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Staging The Jew

By: Erdman, Harley Mitchell

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Publisher: Rutgers University Press : February 1995

Seller ID: 21384

ISBN-13: 9780813524146

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This work attempts to uncover the roots of Jewish characteristion in popular culture by inestigating
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The Hunter's Vision: The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe

By: Garlake, Peter

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr : January 1995

Seller ID: 81238

ISBN-13: 9780295974804

Binding: Hardcover

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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

By: Johanson, Donald C.,Edey, Maitland

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : February 1981

Seller ID: 56896

ISBN-13: 9780671250362

Binding: Hardcover

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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor

By: Johanson, Donald C.,Shreeve, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : January 1989

Seller ID: 81948

ISBN-13: 9780688064921

Binding: Hardcover

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Origins

By: Leakey, Richard E.,Lewin, Roger

Price: $9.00

Publisher: E.P.Dutton Pub. : October 1977

Seller ID: 44447

ISBN-13: 9780525171942

Binding: Hardcover

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Origins

By: Leakey, Richard E.,Lewin, Roger

Price: $5.00

Publisher: E.P.Dutton Pub. : October 1977

Seller ID: 53357

ISBN-13: 9780525171942

Binding: Hardcover

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People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings

By: Leakey, Richard E.,Lewin, Roger

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Avon Books : January 1979

Seller ID: 88872

ISBN-13: 9780380455751

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

By: Maples, William R.,Browning, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Crown : September 1995

Seller ID: 20071

ISBN-13: 9780385479684

Binding: Trade Paperback

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From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer.

In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

By: Marcus, George E.,Fischer, Michael M. J.

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press : April 1986

Seller ID: 85067

ISBN-13: 9780226504490

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication.
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Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners (The Interact Series)

By: Nydell, Margaret K.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Intercultural Press : January 1996

Seller ID: 90060

ISBN-13: 9781877864469

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This guide is designed for Westerners planning to visit, live or work in the Maghreb and the Middle East. The author has great experience of Arab culture and describes the patterns of change that have influenced the Arab world in recent times. She also analyzes basic Arab values religious beliefs and self-perceptions.
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Man on Earth (Corrie Herring Hooks Series, Number Ten)

By: Reader, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press : July 1988

Seller ID: 56450

ISBN-13: 9780292751019

Binding: Hardcover

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Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology (Phoenix Series)

By: Stocking Jr, George W.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : April 1982

Seller ID: 89022

ISBN-13: 9780226774947

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Contains some underlining.
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The Mountain People

By: Turnbull, Colin M.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Touchstone : July 1987

Seller ID: 20985

ISBN-13: 9780671640989

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

By: Wade, Nicholas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Press : April 2006

Seller ID: 71621

ISBN-13: 9781594200793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A provocative alternate history of humanity's ancient ancestry and the evolution of human nature draws on ground-breaking scientific findings to offer insight into such debated issues as the evolution of language and race, the domestication of companion animals, and the defeat of the Neanderthals.
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Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human

By: Walter, Chip

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Walker Books : October 2006

Seller ID: 34179

ISBN-13: 9780802715272

Binding: Hardcover

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The fascinating evolutionary links between six seemingly unremarkable traits that make us the very remarkable creatures we are. Countless behaviors separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but all of them can be traced one way or another to six traits that are unique to the human race--our big toe, our opposable thumb, our oddly shaped pharynx, and our ability to laugh, kiss, and cry. At first glance these may not seem to be connected but they are. Each marks a fork in the evolutionary road where we went one way and the rest of the animal kingdom went another. Each opens small passagew...
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The Hominid Gang: Behind the Scenes in the Search for Human Origins

By: Willis, Delta

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult : October 1989

Seller ID: 81947

ISBN-13: 9780670828081

Binding: Hardcover

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A Short History of Progress

By: Wright, Ronald

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Publisher: CARROLL & GRAF : March 2005

Seller ID: 71633

ISBN-13: 9780786715473

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A brilliant, sobering, highly readable, and utterly fascinating rumination on the hubris at the heart of human development and the pitfalls we still may have time to avoid Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. We live at a time of runaway growth in human numbers, consumption, and technology. The great question we now face is how, and whether, this can go on. Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament, though new in scale, is as old as humankind. A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, bril...
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Category: Anthropology