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Colonial LivingColonial Living
Best Price: $12.14
Here in the 21st century, life in 18th century (and before) colonial America is quickly becoming...
Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (Contemporary Native American Communities)Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (Contemporary Native American Communities)
Best Price: $7.43
While Native American communities remain culturally innovative and continue to struggle for...
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization EraThe History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
Best Price: $23.51
Human rights are rights considered to be held by individuals simply because they are part of the...
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of SalmonKing of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
Best Price: $8.11
I can only add to what the three previous reviewers have said in praise of this book. I make my...
Human (Dk Smithsonian Institution)Human (Dk Smithsonian Institution)
Best Price: $13.27
Informative and interesting. Don't like that it's beginning is based in evolution but other...


Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages (5th Edition)Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages (5th Edition)
Best Price: $55.95
This book is fairly easy to read, using data from many languages to illustrate key concepts...
Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity with Living Anthropology Student CDAnthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity with Living Anthropology Student CD
Best Price: $70.00
Written by Kottak, recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this text continues to...
The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of TimeThe Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
Best Price: $7.00
This book blew my mind back when it was first released, and on third or fourth read, there is...
Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second EditionGolden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second Edition
Best Price: $11.25
McDonald's Restaurants are to be found world-wide and books have been written on their business...
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and WrongMoral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Best Price: $7.62
This is a horribly written (at times incoherent) and poorly argued for book. Hauser's main...


Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of AnxietyPerfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Best Price: $1.84
Judith Warner overgeneralizes from her own personal experience and that of a small segment of...
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and MythIn Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth
Best Price: $17.26
Great info but way too many pages searching for the exact geographic location of the original...
Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our SchoolsBecause of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools
Best Price: $18.00
In Because of Race , Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial...
Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (with InfoTrac?)Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (with InfoTrac?)
Best Price: $54.01
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE goes beyond the basic outline of introductory...
Applying Anthropology: An Introductory ReaderApplying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader
Best Price: $34.99
This is a phenomenal collection of essays, ranging from ancient agricultural techniques to the...

Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Best Price: $27.99
This is one of the finest pieces of anthropological literature that I've had the pleasure to...
The Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 1: History and SocietyThe Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 1: History and Society
Best Price: $18.98
Early writers of Native American history tend to fall into two groupings. There are those who...
Cultural Anthropology (MyAnthroLab Series)Cultural Anthropology (MyAnthroLab Series)
Best Price: $88.43
This book is really well written. I used this book as a textbook at college and my professor...
Kenya - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)Kenya - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)
Best Price: $5.27
I spent three months in Kenya living with people from the Kikuyu tribe working at an orghanage...
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics)Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics)
Best Price: $14.28
Cultural scholarship has grown to depend upon people like Clifford Geertz for the conceptual...

On Suicide Bombing (The Wellek Library Lectures)On Suicide Bombing (The Wellek Library Lectures)
Best Price: $12.28
This book based on the Wellek lectures at U.C. Irvine is the best book on the topic of suicide...
Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of YesteryearHalloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear
Best Price: $12.85
Not quite as good as her second book: "Halloween Merrymaking," but still absolutely...
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North AmericaIshi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Best Price: $15.00
It isn't too common for me to start crying by the ending of a book. But this story brought me...
Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Best Price: $13.06
This is an important book for "so called" documentary writers, photographers, and film...
The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook:  What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and HealingThe Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing
Best Price: $13.76
The book is a compilation of short stories about the most influential children that he has...

The Second Jewish Book of WhyThe Second Jewish Book of Why
Best Price: $8.68
Kolatch follows up on his nicely readable BOOK OF JEWISH WHY with this second edition on Jewish...
Cultural Dimension of International Business, The (5th Edition)Cultural Dimension of International Business, The (5th Edition)
Best Price: $37.97
...you are in an Intro To International Business course. Otherwise, a complete waste of money.
CultureShock! Japan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides)CultureShock! Japan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides)
Best Price: $10.73
I was stationed overseas for about 1 1/2 years before I read the book. Many questions I had were...
Anthropology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))Anthropology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Best Price: $11.29
I'm a junior with an anthropology major, so I'm not exactly the highest source when it comes to...
Young and Defiant in Tehran (Contemporary Ethnography)Young and Defiant in Tehran (Contemporary Ethnography)
Best Price: $36.00
Dr. Khosravi has created a stunning work in his recent book Young and Defiant in Tehran. Each...

Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest TabooDinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
Best Price: $15.29
was not pleased with the book. the tounge in cheek references of eating eating human flesh and...
More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public IssuesMore Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
Best Price: $12.95
Most of us accept data and statistics at face value when we encouinter them. Whether they are...
Immigrant America: A PortraitImmigrant America: A Portrait
Best Price: $13.99
I bought this book in the beginning of September. They gave me about 20 days time span for...
Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second EditionGolden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second Edition
Best Price: $14.23
McDonald's Restaurants are to be found world-wide and books have been written on their business...
Skull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American IdentitySkull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity
Best Price: $8.55
I really savored every page of this book. One of the best I have EVER read on both an OVERVIEW...

Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign CultureDistant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture
Best Price: $22.75
This book gives a fresh look into American culture which flowed easily and proved to be a very...
Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of HumankindBiological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind
Best Price: $26.99
Although published as a textbook for university students, this volume is an excellent read for...
My Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate PhotographyMy Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate Photography
Best Price: $19.75
"My Family Album" catalogs 30 years of de Waal's black and white photographs of both...
Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires (Ethnographer's Toolkit , Vol 2)Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires (Ethnographer's Toolkit , Vol 2)
Best Price: $23.86
Over all, the book is well laid out, and the information is quite accessible. Example numbers...
The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human RaceThe World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race
Best Price: $16.47
Fast Food Nation meets The World Is Flat in this eye-opening look at the obesity epidemic . ...

Local Histories/Global DesignsLocal Histories/Global Designs
Best Price: $24.87
This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most...
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as FolkloreHoly Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
Best Price: $13.74
"Dundes observed that variations in the oral tradition were preserved in the Bible...
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and MythIn Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth
Best Price: $11.90
Linguists define "Indo-European" as a language entity or unity from which all...
Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity with Living Anthropology Student CDAnthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity with Living Anthropology Student CD
Best Price: $71.08
Written by Kottak, recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this text continues to...
The Human MosaicThe Human Mosaic
Best Price: $69.49
The book was highlighted as same as the description. The book was packaged inproperly because...

At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast BrazilAt Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
Best Price: $10.07
It was helpful to read a non-Christian study on street children. It was definitely more...
The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal (Kodansha Globe)The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal (Kodansha Globe)
Best Price: $7.95
his idea was great for the book, alot of the stuff he says was well researched and correct,...
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of ThingsThe Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
Best Price: $13.24
This book is a must for anyone who follows a structuralist view of art. Clear, simple but...
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Best Price: $28.50
This is one of the finest pieces of anthropological literature that I've had the pleasure to...
The Humanistic Tradition, Volume 2: The Early Modern World to the Present (Humanistic Tradition)The Humanistic Tradition, Volume 2: The Early Modern World to the Present (Humanistic Tradition)
Best Price: $74.06
This book utilizes so many resources and the author has a great ability to convey what she is...

In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its YouthIn Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
Best Price: $5.98
I found this book at a National Youth Leadership Conference. My daughter is going on a trip with...
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese CultureThe Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
Best Price: $7.50
While I lived four years in Japan, I read many cultural books. Most authors referenced the work...
Whats Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Latin America Otherwise)Whats Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Latin America Otherwise)
Best Price: $20.40
this study is probably one of the easiest to read, and really makes you feel a connection with...
The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the YearThe Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year
Best Price: $8.50
Received this book in a timely manor. Very happy with the book and the service. Good book for...
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer WorldSex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
Best Price: $17.95
The book doesn't just accept the sociological view of the development for certain kinds of...
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