Archaeology / Anthropology
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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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Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills
$25.99 Add to cartHave You Ever Longed To Return To A Past Where Humanity’s Greatest Concern Was Survival, When Our Hands Created Life’s Necessities, When The Land’s Raw Provisions Were The Materials With Which We Crea… [more below]
- Author: Wescott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2001
- ISBN10: 0879059117
- Language: English
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
$23.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable con… [more below]
- Series: Compass
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140196013
- 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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People of the Ucayali: The Shipibo and Conibo of Peru
$31.95 Add to cartThis book describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo. It shares personal observations of their subsistence and economic, social, and p
- Series: Publication / International Museum of Cultures
- Author: Eakin, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 28 1986
- ISBN10: 0883121638
- Language: English
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Home: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are bec… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fox, Michael Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198747233
- 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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Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession
$24.95 Add to cart2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe’s life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeolog- Author: Kehoe, Alice Beck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229363
- 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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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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Primitive Technology II – Ancestral Skills
$27.99 Add to cartThe Stone Age is the common denominator of mankind, and through experimental archeology–the relearning and replication of ancient skills–we take a step of discovery and understanding into this rich
- Author: Wescott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 20 2001
- ISBN10: 1586850989
- Language: English
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year
Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food R- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594200823
- 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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Forbidden Archeologist: The Atlantis Rising Magazine Columns of Michael A. Cremo
$21.95 Add to cartMichael Cremo, an international authority on human antiquity, has justly earned the forbidden archeologist title. For over twenty-seven years he’s been digging up documented, credible findings that ma… [more below]
- Author: Cremo, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0892133376
- Language: English
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Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
$47.42 Add to cartUseful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This thir… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Ellen Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1589794648
- 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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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
$28.00 Add to cartWhat secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found–until now.
Graham- Author: Hancock, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 1400049512
- Language: English
