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 Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (A School of American Research advanced seminar)Best Price: $18.68 When initially published, these essays provided a salutary textual critique of anthropology.... |  Human Molecular Genetics, Third EditionBest Price: $84.98 HMG3 is a great book for those looking to review the large and growing field of human molecular... |  The Tiwi of North Australia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Best Price: $20.36 |  Encountering DevelopmentBest Price: $15.60 This is a tract, not a thoughtful piece of scholarship. It is in the Latin American school of... |  The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation (Problems in European Civilization.)Best Price: $31.00 The Nazi Revolution, revised and edited by Allan Mitchell, is part of a scholarly collection... |
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