Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Foxfire 9
$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) #9
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 17 1986
- ISBN10: 0385177445
- Language: English
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One River
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America–Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis–an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834960
- Language: English
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$19.99 Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate tw- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684839296
- Language: English
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Where the Language Lives: VI Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed
$16.95 Add to cartThe life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who revitalized her native language-Lushootseed-and the culture it expresses.
- Author: Yoder, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1954854269
- Language: English
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
$19.00 Add to cartFew events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Martin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 1994
- ISBN10: 802130623
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
$17.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead’s first field work at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.
Rarely do sc
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Mead, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0688050336
- Language: English
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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
$34.95 Add to cartThis accessible study of ayahuasca shamanism introduces its ritual practices including healers’ spiritual relationships with the native plants used in its ceremonies.
- Author: Beyer, Stephan V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0826347304
- Language: English
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Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00 Add to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live–how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die–in this “… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1451659113
- Language: English
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
$26.95 Add to cartIn this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among al
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299019
- Language: English
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Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth
$28.95 Read more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
“An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland.” —New York Times Book Review “This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking- Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362282
- Language: English
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The Wayfinders
$17.99 Read moreEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and Nat
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0887848427
- Language: English
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics–former
- Author: Deresiewicz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858631
- Language: English
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How We Got by: 111 People Share Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope Through Hardship
$24.99 Read moreWhen your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorge… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Shaina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1524872318
- Language: English
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
$29.00 Add to cartIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws … [more below]
- Author: Cavender, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- Language: English
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
$14.95 Add to cartFor more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobota… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 07 2007
- ISBN10: 1553652673
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An “important, deeply affecting–and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedo… [more below]
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1541605128
- Language: English
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1612195180
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
