Archaeology / Anthropology
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Native American Artifacts of Wisconsin
$45.95 Add to cartNative American Artifacts of Wisconsin is designed to bridge the gap between the professional and amateur archaeologist. In an easy and logical format, it serves as an excellent reference on the prehi
- Author: Schanen, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1932113754
- Language: English
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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
$40.00 Add to cartIn this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, … [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1107607612
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$26.95 Read moreChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299787
- Language: English
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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity
$19.95 Read moreA thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality–at the table and beyond–that’s part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our da… [more below]
- Author: Basil, Priya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525657851
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- 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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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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Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology
$30.60 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology–from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s t- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183236
- 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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Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartWhere did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life’s questions, having become disillusioned with trite explan… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1525576941
- 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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Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
$19.99 Add to cartOver the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovere… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859203
- 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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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
$28.00 Read more“Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“[A] bold and magnificent at- Author: Sykes, Rebecca Wragg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 147293749X
- 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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Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians–Art and Industries
$29.95 Read moreThis classic compendium of ancient Indian artifacts from the entire southeastern United States remains an indispensable reference source for professionals and enthusiasts alike.
From utilitarian arrowh
- Author: Fundaburk, Emma Lila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0817310770
- Language: English
