Anthropology - General
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
$22.00 Add to cartAn exploration of humans’ symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies, the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societie… [more below]
- Author: McKenna, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0553371304
- Language: English
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Gone Gone
$37.43 Add to cartIn Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members … [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031646
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
$35.00 Add to cartA vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse–stretching from the Stone Age to the age of silicon–that digs through the ruins of fallen societies to understand the root causes of their downfa… [more below]
- Author: Kemp, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321359
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
$22.95 Read moreCo-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
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What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263515
- Language: English
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My Head for a Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, Guardians of Nature
$28.95 Add to cartFor readers of Barry Lopez and Wade Davis comes a remarkable journey among India’s Bishnoi people, passionate defenders of nature whose ecological wisdom carries a powerful message for the world.
Meet- Author: Goodman, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 177840149X
- Language: English
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
$19.99 Add to cart“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 Senses
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diamond, Jared M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 60845503
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
$22.95 Add to cartFirst published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishin… [more below]
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182973
- Language: English
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Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future
$30.95 Read moreAn anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival.
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, po- Author: Botanova, Kateryna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915609208
- Language: English
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds
$34.95 Read moreA methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of “human-made”
- Author: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911656
- Language: English
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A Degree in a Book: Anthropology: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject – In One Book!
$24.99 Add to cartStudy the diverse cultures of the world and the common threads of humanity in this wonderfully visual guide to anthropology, covering everything you would find on a degree course.
A Degree in a Book:- Series: Degree in a Book #6
- Author: Morris, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1789507359
- Language: English
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Dictionary of Symbols
$24.95 Add to cartFrom early cave drawings to modern corporate logos, graphic symbols have been used to convey meanings both tangible and abstract. In this unique dictionary, Carl G. Liungman puts approximately 2,500 W… [more below]
- Author: Liungman, Carl G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312364
- Language: English
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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
$26.95 Add to cartTwelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, va… [more below]
- Author: Bourque, Bruce J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803262310
- Language: English
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
$19.99 Add to cartMany of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such … [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Pascal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0465006965
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal
$17.00 Add to cartThis work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.
Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967.- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334303
- Language: English
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Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartWhere did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life’s questions, having become disillusioned with trite explan… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1525576941
- Language: English
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Patterns of Culture
$18.99 Add to cart“Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life.” — New York Times
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an- Author: Benedict, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619550
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Humans: The Natural History of a Singular Species
$17.00 Add to cartWould you know a human being if you saw one? This is not as frivolous a question as it might seem. Recent scientific discoveries from many disciplines have painted a new picture of what it means to be
- Author: Smith, Ronald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0999000608
- Language: English
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
$18.95 Read moreA look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
– Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the- Author: Scranton, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594771332
- Language: English
