Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’Ero of Peru
$22.99 Read moreAn intimate glimpse into the world of ancient Peruvian spiritual practice and cosmology
– Reveals the mysteries of the world of living energy (kawsay pacha) through intensive in-depth interviews with- Author: Wilcox, Joan Parisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1594770123
- Language: English
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
$50.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of ar… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0500251789
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
$26.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award!This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a g
- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 23, 2017
- ISBN10: 1633882934
- Language: English
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
$31.00 Add to cartA vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preservi- Author: Stein, Eliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250281091
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00 Add to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
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In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
$27.95 Read moreThe story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilizations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we th
- Author: Moore, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1786499150
- Language: English
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America
$0.00 Read more“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” –Los Angeles Times
The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically tr- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0735216088
- Language: English
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The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features
$29.95 Read moreA broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia.
How do you read a face? For thousands of year- Author: Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047535
- Language: English
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Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene
$13.95 Read moreOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.
State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security a- Author: Banerjee, Milinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1734643536
- Language: English
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My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains
$19.00 Read moreSharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.
For many Americans, Kansas represents a visi- Author: Crispin, Jessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0226820106
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
$29.95 Read moreHow statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars
The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology- Author: Bevan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761873
- Language: English
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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
$19.99 Read moreBarbara Ehrenreich’s New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312658850
- Language: English
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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
$35.00 Read moreA compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American- Author: Stolzenberg, Nomi M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691199779
- Language: English
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Culture
$18.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind
$19.99 Read moreIn The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman uncovers the Love Generation’s roots in occultism and explores the dark side of the Age of Aquarius. His provocative revision of the … [more below]
- Series: Dedalus Concept Books
- Author: Lachman, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: February 14 2022
- ISBN10: 191286844X
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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From Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs
$30.00 Read more- Author: Ancelet, Barry Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1946160911
- Language: English
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Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
$19.95 Read moreA provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space.
- Author: Auge, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292605
- Language: English
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
$17.99 Add to cart“Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” – Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers
Indigenous peoples have faced the end o
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1487008511
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAntisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate.
This Very Short Introduction untangles the hi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724837
- Language: English
