Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
$30.00 Add to cartHugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the f
- Author: Brody, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0865476381
- Language: English
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Los Arabes of New Mexico: Compadres from a Distant Land
$22.95 Add to cartAt the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to
- Author: Ghattas, Monika White
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0865349118
- Language: English
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
$17.99 Add to cartHow do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one’s behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine’s list of America’s “50 Mos… [more below]
- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0743260163
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Sastun
$19.99 Add to cartThe compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo’s quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of
- Author: Arvigo, Rosita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 006250259X
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
$37.92 Add to cartThis fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of … [more below]
- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887596
- Language: English
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Guardians of Hidden Traditions
$18.95 Add to cartGuardians of Hidden Traditions is a historical novel narrating the experiences of generation after generation of crypto-Jews, beginning in Spain in the late 1300’s and ending in New Mexico in the earl… [more below]
- Series: Western Sephardic Traditions
- Author: Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0982065787
- Language: English
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
$25.99 Add to cartElizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experience
- Author: Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 031242728X
- Language: English
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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
$42.00 Add to cartThis book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion’s evolutionary significance, and its ine… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #110
- Author: Rappaport, Roy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: March 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0521296900
- Language: English
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The Way of Tea: Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm
$15.99 Add to cartClarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.
In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of tea–from the practical to the spiritual–and how they can implement- Author: Fisher, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 080485436X
- Language: English
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Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey
$22.95 Add to cartAt one time Spain was the center of Jewish life in Europe. Most European Jews were Spanish Jews. The most important scholars and yeshivas were there. But, Spain turned against its Jews, who had been t
- Author: Duncan Hart, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 193560483X
- Language: English
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A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
$15.99 Add to cartFor readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we’ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that w… [more below]
- Author: Malchik, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0738234885
- Language: English
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The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait
$22.00 Add to cartA timeless resource that describes the evolution of the US military in the first half of the 20th century.More than 50 years after its publication, The Professional Soldier remains a path-breaking stu… [more below]
- Author: Janowitz, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1501179322
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
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Localism in the Mass Age
$34.00 Add to cartIn the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Re… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Mark T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1532614438
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Add to cartThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle, Maine, 1605-2005
$15.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, native people lived, loved and labored on Deer Isle as well as the surrounding islands and peninsulas of east Penobscot Bay. Then, just over 400 years ago, their lives were dis
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1882190807
- Language: English
