Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$27.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691225885
- Language: English
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
$18.99 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions beg
- Author: Bateson, Mary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926309
- Language: English
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
$34.95 Add to cartSelected by Kirkus for “Best of 2021: Our Favorite Nonfiction”
It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face o
- Author: Shaik, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860802
- Language: English
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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
$19.00 Add to cartOnce upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the le… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Leah Hager
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17 1998
- ISBN10: 038549257X
- Language: English
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Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging
$24.95 Read more“Strong debut . . . this nuanced portrait of the state of American Judaism proffers a cogent vision of how to revitalize the faith.” –Publisher’s Weekly
Why are religious organizations on the decline
- Author: Stanton, Rabbi Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1681150891
- Language: English
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the season’s most talked about cultural studies” (Los Angeles Times)–an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journ… [more below]
- Author: Nugent, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0743288025
- Language: English
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Life Is Not Useful
$14.95 Add to cartIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, pr
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 150955405X
- Language: English
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French
$21.99 Add to cartA historical and cultural guide revealing the French approach to land, food, privacy, language, and more and how globalization led France to become one of the unlikeliest influential countries in the
- Author: Nadeau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1402200455
- Language: English
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Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right
$21.95 Add to cartA startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-r- Author: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691222940
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols
$18.99 Add to cart“If you love mysteries, you’ll love this book. Genevieve von Petzinger acts as guide and sleuth in this fascinating, accessible, and fast-paced exploration of Ice Age artists and the evocative cave pa… [more below]
- Author: Von Petzinger, Genevieve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1476785503
- Language: English
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
$30.00 Read moreA pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a ‘fascinating, well-researched’ (Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE) journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual–showing how and why our most irrational behavio
- Author: Xygalatas, Dimitris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316462403
- Language: English
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
$24.99 Add to cart“A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?”
— Gabor Mat? M.D. , a- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0865719799
- Language: English
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A History of the Yoruba People
$39.95 Add to cartA History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western A
- Author: Akintoye, Stephen Adebanji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 2359260065
- Language: English
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The Sámi People: Traditions in Transitions
$30.95 Read moreS mi culture has undergone powerful changes recently. Traditions have been integrated with contemporary influences and perspectives. New kinds of S mi participation and activism have evolved including… [more below]
- Author: Lehtola, Veli-Pekka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1889963755
- Language: English
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
$29.95 Add to cartAnthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904859798
- Language: English
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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
$25.00 Read moreFirst published 20 years ago, Modern Primitives is still called “the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground.” Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction by original editor… [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #12
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1889307262
- Language: English
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The Temper of Our Time
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1933435224
- Language: English
