Anthropology
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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
$16.99 Read moreA Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer
Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1786070650
- Language: English
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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
$18.00 Add to cartWhat does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific … [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1633880184
- Language: English
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Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
$16.95 Add to cart“Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.”
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In t- Author: Boyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027186
- Language: English
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
$25.00 Add to cartThe past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained st… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065232
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
$25.00 Add to cartAre you considered a “dingbatter,” or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little “sigogglin,” or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending time with yo… [more below]- Author: Wolfram, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1469629992
- Language: English
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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
$35.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593700678
- Language: English
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Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice
$39.67 Read moreWritten by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, appr… [more below]
- Author: Lave, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1108727433
- Language: English
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Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex
$34.95 Add to cartUjarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #6
- Author: Saladin D’Anglure, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0887558305
- Language: English
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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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The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective
$46.99 Add to cartOn the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human development that ranges
- Series: Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
- Author: Balswick, Jack O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 405
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0830851437
- Language: English
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White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
$21.99 Add to cartDaniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: “Daniel, you may be white, but don’t let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white cu
- Author: Hill, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0830843930
- Language: English
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
$19.95 Add to cartGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 080484755X
- Language: English
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
$19.95 Add to cartGrave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and dis… [more below]
- Series: Fourth World Rising
- Author: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803269080
- Language: English
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
$24.95 Add to cartHidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generati… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803260989
- Language: English
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal
$17.00 Add to cartThis work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.
Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967.- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334303
- Language: English
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Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective: Ancient and Contemporary Approaches to Theological Anthropology
$27.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be “truly human?” In Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective, Marc Cortez looks at the ways several key theologians–Gregory of Nyssa, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luth
- Author: Cortez, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0310516412
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough
$22.99 Add to cartMust you believe something to be saved? Does the kingdom of God include non-Christians? Is hell for real and forever?These are big questions. Hard questions. Questions that divide Christians along con… [more below]
- Author: Wittmer, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0310281164
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
$17.00 Add to cartA revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most … [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110292
- Language: English
