Anthropology
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At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
$19.99 Add to cartBringing light to the shadows of history through a “rich weave of citation and archival evidence” (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by
- Author: Ekirch, A. Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329011
- Language: English
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
$9.99 Add to cartHawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultur
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Westervelt, W. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1513295896
- 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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Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation
$18.00 Add to cart“provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology.” Bolles American Ethnologist, 1994 “groundbreaking” Levinson The Teachers College Record, 2008 DECOLO… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Faye V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0913167835
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$17.95 Read moreFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093335
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
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My Life as an Indian
$19.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating memoir, first published as a book in 1907, the author recalls the remarkable story of his journey westward as a young man to the Montana Territory. Traveling in the days before rai… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Schultz, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0486296148
- 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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Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias
$42.95 Add to cartLearn how you can help combat micro and macroaggressions against socially devalued groups with this authoritative new resource
Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle In
- Author: Sue, Derald Wing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1119769965
- 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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Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense About Primitive Society
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up his research for publication. He learned that primitive societie
- Author: Hallpike, C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 9527065550
- 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 Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.99 Add to cartBlending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Lang- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080120
- Language: English
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Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining
$35.00 Add to cartRambo draws on contemporary studies in trauma to rethink a central claim of the Christian faith: that new life arises from death. Reexamining the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus from
- Author: Rambo, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0664235034
- 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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Vagina: Revised and Updated
$16.99 Add to cartOne of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural h
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0061989177
- Language: English
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Color Psychology And Color Therapy
$22.00 Add to cartAmerican writer Faber Birren devoted his life to color and it’s effects on human life. After writing around 25 texts on the topic, it would be safe to say his work is considered highly among color exp
- Author: Faber Birren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1639231331
- Language: English
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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
$18.99 Read moreAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973282
- Language: English
