Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Lost & Found: Nine Life-Changing Lessons about Stuff from Someone Who Lost Everything
$24.95 Read moreWhy do we buy and keep the things we do, and how can we live a less cluttered life? Journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde dives deep to explore, explain, and guide us on the path to liberation from the tyra… [more below]
- Author: Chandler-Wilde, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1797232665
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Eugenics: From Science to Atrocity – How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
$16.95 Add to cartFor the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear child
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Peterson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 189101188X
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$30.00 Add to cart“Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” – Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling author
A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with g- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538757400
- Language: English
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Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
$18.95 Read moreDance of the Four Winds recounts the adventures of the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo as he journeys to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the native shamans. Here Quecha masters use … [more below]
- Author: Villoldo, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0892815140
- Language: English
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Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down
$28.00 Add to cartAn anthropologist’s quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trum
- Author: Pandian, Anand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1503637875
- Language: English
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Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
$22.95 Add to cartAmericans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver
The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But f- Author: Pan, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1804294225
- Language: English
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Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
$28.95 Read moreIn 1980, Charles Wetli—a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions—identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners b… [more below]
- Author: Beliso-de Jes?s, Aisha M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030550
- Language: English
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Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
$27.95 Add to cartA mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman
Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think.- Author: Keane, Webb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691270937
- Language: English
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Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops movin- Author: O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0520409116
- Language: English
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rul… [more below]
- Author: Gelfand, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152947
- Language: English
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Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal
$21.00 Read moreHelping students apply their anthropological toolkit to the real world
- Author: Guest, Kenneth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 132404070X
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
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Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
$46.65 Add to cartWhat is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now … [more below]
- Author: Howell, Brian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 154096101X
- Language: English
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartTwo of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag?’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This imme
- Author: De Sahagun, Bernardino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 160781157X
- Language: English
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Myth: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhere do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?
In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These appr- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Segal, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724705
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
$23.00 Add to cartCapitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, an… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Jerry Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721668
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Add to cartIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
$52.99 Add to cartIn Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series o
- Series: Bell Hooks Teaching Trilogy
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0415968208
- Language: English
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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$34.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
