Cultural & Social
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, the Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 844
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1107670640
- 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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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
$18.00 Add to cartLong out of print, Jules Michelet’s classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public’s attention to one of the truly great sociological works of mo… [more below]
- Author: Michelet, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: February 19 1992
- ISBN10: 080650059X
- Language: English
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We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf
$19.95 Add to cartWe Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insig… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803259859
- 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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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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Way Things Ought to Be
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with … [more below]
- Author: Limbaugh, Rush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982188464
- Language: English
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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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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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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
