Archaeology / Anthropology
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Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
$28.00 Add to cartThe fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible… [more below]
- Author: Hancock, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0671865412
- 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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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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Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
$19.99 Add to cartTo whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero — or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a th… [more below]
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 031606646X
- Language: English
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A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History
$28.00 Add to cartWe are proud to announce that A Deep Presence 13,000 Years of Native American History has been awarded: ★2022 Benjamin Franklin Award, Silver Medal for Multicultural★2023 Next Generation I… [more below]
- Author: Goodby, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1942155409
- 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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Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
$35.00 Add to cartBlending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous “Lost City of the Monkey God” tells incredible stories of how explorers an… [more below]
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1426221983
- 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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Armas, Germenes Y Acero / Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$17.95 Add to cartHace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica y otra… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 607313925X
- Language: Spanish
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Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
$25.99 Add to cartLearn where to look for and how to identify and preserve your own collection of common and rare stone artifacts in this respected and ethical handbook.
- Series: Pruett
- Author: Yeager, C. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0871083310
- 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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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
$20.00 Add to cart“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: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1635579899
- 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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A Little History of Archaeology
$15.00 Read moreA “learned and lively” (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure–with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe–for readers of all ag… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0300243219
- Language: English
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What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism
$24.95 Read moreThis scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally- Author: Kundnani, Arun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1839762764
- 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
