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Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation Best Price: $15.44 Part detective story, part expos?, and part travelogue, Promising Genomics investigates one of...	Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger Best Price: $22.97 I would just like to say that I am taking a class on Magic Religions and Witchcraft from Paul...	Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (Contemporary Native American Communities) Best Price: $17.00 While Native American communities remain culturally innovative and continue to struggle for...	Murray Springs: A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona) Best Price: $24.95 There is a general lack of available printed reports on clovis culture written for the public...	The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege Best Price: $17.05 This is a worthwhile effort in an under-studied area. Surely, poor whites are among among the...



Victoria: The Heart of Christmas Best Price: $5.00 Through the glorious photography and settings you are drawn into the nostalgia so evident in...	People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (12th Edition) Best Price: $62.17 "People of the Earth" is not the first of Fagan's books I have read; I studied...	Anthropology: The Human Challenge Best Price: $83.00 The only strebgth of this text is its extensive coverage of the subject, but that is where the...	The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire Best Price: $4.00 While there are many great aspects to this book, perhaps the most notable was the manner in...	Homicide (Foundations of Human Behavior) Best Price: $21.90 This is a fascinating book. It's scientific, but readable, with lots of new ideas you'll want to...



Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) Best Price: $29.95	On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact Best Price: $29.49 The pacific islands and people who inhabit them have long been viewed as seperate, isolated and...	The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, New and Updated Edition Best Price: $29.88 It's fascinating how panicked some get when they "read" Marija Gimbutas. Here's just...	Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley Best Price: $44.00 Totally under-valued and under-appreciated... the story is told literally, with the camera and...	Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest (Canto original series) Best Price: $19.64 I've read quite afew books on the Yanomami, but this was by far the most boring one I ever...

An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology Best Price: $3.55 An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the...	No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons Best Price: $4.79 I first became a Benedict fan reading his books about professional athletes and their ability to...	Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas: Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance (2nd Edition) (New Immigrants) Best Price: $21.49 This update of a beautifully written ethnography on Yucatecan migrants in Dallas, TX, is a...	Homeland Earth : A Manifesto for the New Millennium (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity and the Human Sciences) Best Price: $14.95 In this short and widely hailed masterpiece, Edgar Morin, one of the leading figures in European...	Transforming Cape Town (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $18.50 Anyone reading this book should also read parallel studies that are part of The Shock Doctrine,...

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Christianity in Brazil Best Price: $25.00 John Burdick's examination of race and gender in Brazil is insightful and innovative. Blessed...	Postcolonial Disorders (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) Best Price: $23.35 The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where...	Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization Best Price: $22.20 Graham Hanock continues to blow my mind with his brilliant deductions, make you open up for...	Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty Best Price: $2.41 I first read this book many years ago, along with some of the author's other works, and decided...	Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects Best Price: $27.00 The book edited by Saskia Sassen gatters 16 studies distributed in 3 parts (1. Scalings: global...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Best Price: $10.00 Think about life as we know it. Now think about a book that can convincingly explain it as an...	Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) Best Price: $30.09 This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique...	Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science Best Price: $19.35 Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--the...	Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology Best Price: $14.34 At the entrance of Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky, one can reads that this is the place...	The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (New Ancient World Series) Best Price: $30.77 It's a very readable and well researched book about the sex and gender in ancient Greece. I...

Bodytalk: The Meaning of Human Gestures Best Price: $19.95 There is, generally, an off-the-top-of-the-head quality to this book. But I base my harsh...	Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis Best Price: $11.71 I had to read this book for an anthropological theories course but it's the kind of book I can...	The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace Best Price: $17.90 The Way We Work reveals that a seismic change has occurred in the workplace since the appearance...	Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Best Price: $30.94 This review pertains to the 2004 reprint edition. Aside from the lousy type in the book (an old...	Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami Best Price: $22.22 this is an exceptional book. I could not put it down. It is a book that will capture your soul...

Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion (Institutional Structures of Feeling) Best Price: $29.85 In response to the reviewer below - why a non-academic would bother to try and read a book...	Ethnography for Marketers: A Guide to Consumer Immersion Best Price: $31.51 This book provides many insights into the entire process of conducting ethnographies and...	Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research Best Price: $12.20 Beautiful book. This book brings to life the science of Huntington's, as well as the personal...	Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art Best Price: $27.49 This companion volume to the astonishing "Raven Travelling" exhibit, currently...	Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left Best Price: $23.94 P>Over a decade ago, Jorge Casta?eda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed , which offered a...

Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $34.19 This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations...	Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction Best Price: $15.00 This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In...	Darwin: The Indelible Stamp Best Price: $5.12 The Indelible Stamp is a collection of reasonably good books, but I find the edition to be...	Essentials of Physical Anthropology Best Price: $75.93 Concise, well-balanced, and comprehensive, ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Seventh Edition...	The Church Visible: The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church Best Price: $149.00 For starters, this isn't a general interest book. Only people who have personal interest in...

Annual Editions: Anthropology 08/09 (Annual Editions) Best Price: $14.97 It's for class, I enjoy the articles, and am a little bummed I won't ba able to sell it at the...	Between God and Man Best Price: $5.38 Fritz Rothschild, the editor of this anthology of Heschel's varied writings, was a colleague and...	Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $4.92 In 2000 a controversy exploded around numerous, diverse, and very serious allegations about...	Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $17.23 This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central...	Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues) Best Price: $25.00 ... all these are present in this fine study. I am especially impressed with the criticisms...

Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Best Price: $8.40 Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long...	Digging up Butch and Sundance (Second Edition) Best Price: $7.42 Digging Up Butch and Sundance is as engrossing as any fictional detective story, thanks to Anne...	Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest Best Price: $45.99 At frist I thought the authors were probably blinded by anti-Mexican and anti-Indian attitudes. ...	Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange (Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology) This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea,...	Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony Best Price: $15.00 Until the advent of the Industrial Revolution, people in general were pretty savage by today's...

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (California World History Library) Best Price: $19.60 The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the...	Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays Best Price: $15.00 An easy way to discover one of the most important ethnologists, and what ethnology is about:...

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