Anthropology - General
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Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up his research for publication. He learned that primitive societie
- Author: Hallpike, C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 9527065550
- Language: English
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Color Psychology And Color Therapy
$22.00 Add to cartAmerican writer Faber Birren devoted his life to color and it’s effects on human life. After writing around 25 texts on the topic, it would be safe to say his work is considered highly among color exp
- Author: Faber Birren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1639231331
- Language: English
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The Omnivores Dilemma
$14.95 Add to cartThe bestselling author of the Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century.
- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 710
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1594132054
- Language: English
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Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge
$15.95 Add to cartContinuing the journey begun in his acclaimed book The Cosmic Serpent, the noted anthropologist ventures firsthand into both traditional cultures and the most up-todate discoveries of contemporary sci… [more below]
- Author: Narby, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1585424617
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills
$25.99 Add to cartHave You Ever Longed To Return To A Past Where Humanity’s Greatest Concern Was Survival, When Our Hands Created Life’s Necessities, When The Land’s Raw Provisions Were The Materials With Which We Crea… [more below]
- Author: Wescott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2001
- ISBN10: 0879059117
- Language: English
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
$23.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable con… [more below]
- Series: Compass
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140196013
- Language: English
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People of the Ucayali: The Shipibo and Conibo of Peru
$31.95 Add to cartThis book describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo. It shares personal observations of their subsistence and economic, social, and p
- Series: Publication / International Museum of Cultures
- Author: Eakin, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 28 1986
- ISBN10: 0883121638
- Language: English
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Home: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are bec… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fox, Michael Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198747233
- Language: English
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year
Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food R- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594200823
- Language: English
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Armas, Germenes Y Acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$17.95 Add to cartHace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica y otra… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 607313925X
- Language: Spanish
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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
$24.95 Read moreAn exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it
Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the worl
- Author: Margulies, Jared D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517913993
- Language: English
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36
$37.43 Add to cartIn this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time–the human cons… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #36
- Author: de Leon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2015
- ISBN10: 520282752
- Language: English
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
$12.95 Add to cart- Series: Paradigm
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972819649
- Language: English
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization
$28.00 Add to cartCould the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compell… [more below]
- Author: Hancock, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 517887290
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691216436
- Language: English
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits.” —The New Yorker
One of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year and Win- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038583
- Language: English
