General Books


The Time Of The Gypsies (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)The Time Of The Gypsies (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
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I have just finished reading The Time of the Gypsies with great interest. I lived in Hungary for...
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of OklahomaBlood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
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Circe Sturm's "Blood Politics" is a thoughtful look at the factors which go into how...
World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction (7th Edition)World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction (7th Edition)
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Man's innate curiosity with their past has given birth to sciences that attempt to satisfy such...
The Anthropology of ExperienceThe Anthropology of Experience
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This book was a godsend. For anyone who wants a very quick and concise overview of...
Brazzaville Charms: Magic and Rebellion in the Republic of CongoBrazzaville Charms: Magic and Rebellion in the Republic of Congo
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Brazzaville Charms: A first-person account, based on original research and interviews, tells the...


The Amish of Lancaster CountyThe Amish of Lancaster County
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More than 5 million people visit Lancaster County every year to experience the culture of the...
The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity--A ReaderThe New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity--A Reader
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At a time in our post-9/11 world when fundamentalist forces appear to dominate Islam, a vibrant...
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of LifeDarwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Think about life as we know it. Now think about a book that can convincingly explain it as an...
Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German BorderlandWhere the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
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This book is extremely interesting. The author has much enthusiasm about the subject and...
Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
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I stumbled across this book in an small bookstore in Bluff Utah, and as a landscape painter had...


Culture and the Evolutionary ProcessCulture and the Evolutionary Process
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How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies...
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern WorldPathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World
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This is an excellent collection of some of Eric Wolf's most important work particularly for the...
Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities (History and Society of the Modern Middle East)Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities (History and Society of the Modern Middle East)
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By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack...
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in ColombiaLaw in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia
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Michael Taussig offers a glimpse of the possibilities in his book Law in a Lawless Land: Diary...
Outside the FoldOutside the Fold
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Dr. Viswanathan has examined conversion with an eye to the subjective experience and...

Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest ChinaEating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China
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Spring rice reports on the history of HIV in China. Data I just read indicates that the HIV...
Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field ScienceAnthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science
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Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--the...
Genetic Data Analysis 2: Methods for Discrete Population Genetic DataGenetic Data Analysis 2: Methods for Discrete Population Genetic Data
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This revised and expanded second edition of "Genetic Data Analysis" details the...
Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and DiseaseHuman Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and Disease
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I ordered this book when I first began my research using DNA markers. I found it very easy to...
The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical AnthropologyThe Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
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This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as...

The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical AnthropologyThe Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
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This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as...
Diary and Letters of Kaethe KollwitzDiary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
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Kaethe Kollwitz created some of the most moving drawings and lithos I have ever seen. Many are...
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence \Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence \
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Asking a lone wasp dragging a cricket across a paddock how she finds her way home won't elicit...
Latinos: Remaking America (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies)Latinos: Remaking America (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies)
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*Latinos: Remaking America* is heady stuff that is the perfect textbook for a Sociology class...
Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic AnthropologyBone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
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This is a thoroughly interesting and entertaining book about Rhine's experiences as a forensic...

Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600
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Brazilian colonialism is unlike its sisters in other places. Unlike the Americas the natives...
Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and <i>Capsicum</i> (Chapel Hill Book)Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum (Chapel Hill Book)
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Hi, I have an old edition,published by the Ten Speed Press of Berkeley,CA of this book. I was...
Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern AndesHeads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes
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The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean...
A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)
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A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key...
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in IndonesiaThe Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
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The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia,...

Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs (Envisioning Asia)Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs (Envisioning Asia)
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There are not many books or articles out there that treat the subject of photography in India...
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary IndiaShoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
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A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized...
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction (Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Studies in Medical Anthropology)The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction (Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
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In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the...
Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas: Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance (2nd Edition) (New Immigrants)Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas: Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance (2nd Edition) (New Immigrants)
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This update of a beautifully written ethnography on Yucatecan migrants in Dallas, TX, is a...
Ethnography: A Way of SeeingEthnography: A Way of Seeing
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Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies, offering important...

Uniforms: Why We Are What We WearUniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
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Paul Fussell narrates the legacy of society's garments through to their modern inheritance. He...
Questions of Anthropology (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology)Questions of Anthropology (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology)
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Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in...
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of HomerThe Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
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People have been writing about Homer for 2500 years. So, as the author says at the outset of...
Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
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In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished, while Stalinist terror and...
Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas (Contemporary Ethnography)Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas (Contemporary Ethnography)
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Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an...

The Transnational VillagersThe Transnational Villagers
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The arrived in a timely manner and in excellent condition
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on CampusFraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
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While not a light subject by any means, this was the first book of its kind I could ever find. ...
Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference (Icon Editions)Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference (Icon Editions)
Best Price: $38.00
This important book helped shape my own thinking and writing. She describes clearly and...
Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the PastCultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past
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The book is great in providing several opinions on a particular unit studied. This way students...
The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the FutureThe Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future
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The book provides general information about different organizational intervention methods. Since...

Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, HistoryColonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History
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1st of all, the reviewer below who claims that Cooper sees colonialism as an exclusively...
Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and ObsessionCompulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession
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This was easily one of the most engaging and informative books that I have read in a long time....
Colonizing Hawai'iColonizing Hawai'i
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This book is a valuable study of the colonization of Hawai`i and the role of "law" in...
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (The Cultures and Practices of Violence)Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (The Cultures and Practices of Violence)
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Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil...
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (The Cultures and Practices of Violence)Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (The Cultures and Practices of Violence)
Best Price: $20.65
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil...

Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives (Contemporary Indigenous Issues)Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives (Contemporary Indigenous Issues)
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Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember...
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of EssaysThe Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
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I picked up a copy of this anthalogy of essays as I was browsing the bookstore. This was a time...
Science and an African LogicScience and an African Logic
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Does 2 + 2 = 4? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such...
Questions of Modernity (Contradictions of Modernity, Volume 11)Questions of Modernity (Contradictions of Modernity, Volume 11)
Best Price: $23.99
Anthropology/Cultural Studies Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how...
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Culture and Society After Socialism)Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Culture and Society After Socialism)
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There has been much new scholarship on the Soviet 'Empire' in Central Asia in recent years. ...

Culture and Customs of Germany (Culture and Customs of Europe)Culture and Customs of Germany (Culture and Customs of Europe)
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After more than a decade of reunification, it is time for a fresh update on the ever-important...
Indian Legends of the Pacific NorthwestIndian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
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Though this book was first published in 1953, the stories and legends enclosed in Ms. Clark's...
The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and SocietyThe White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society
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I could barely put this book down. One fascinating theme is the link between perceptions of the...
Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the WorldNative Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World
Best Price: $12.50
This book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and how they...
 
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