General Books


Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo Best Price: $14.97 was not pleased with the book. the tounge in cheek references of eating eating human flesh and...	Food And Culture: A Reader Best Price: $43.50 Rarely does one edited volume do such a good job of covering the essential essays about a topic....	Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective Best Price: $39.64 McElroy and Townsend's medical anthropology text is one of the classics in its field. I...	When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa (California Series in Public Anthropology) Best Price: $18.37 This is an unbalanced view of the so-called AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Thabo Mbeki put his...	Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations Best Price: $6.60 Little discussed by the main stream, El Nino is shown to be a powerful influence on global...



Conformity and Conflict: Readings to Accompany Miller, Cultural Anthropology Best Price: $16.90	Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America Best Price: $15.29 This book is the fascinating, inspiring and enlightening true story of a young man who was a...	Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (American Encounters/Global Interactions) Best Price: $18.00 This is one of the best books on indigenous politics that has been written. The author's 20...	Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco Best Price: $13.99 For anthropologists, doing fieldwork is a kind of rite of passage, a process of initiation into...	Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, The Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (includes 16 pages of B&W photos) Best Price: $11.95 Despite its title and subtitle, this book is really a chronicle of some of Dr. Bill Bass's...



Anthropology: A Global Perspective (6th Edition) Best Price: $100.08 Anthropology: A Global Perspective introduces students to the four fields of anthropology. This...	More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues Best Price: $13.58 Most of us accept data and statistics at face value when we encouinter them. Whether they are...	Ordinary Affects Best Price: $18.95 Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday...	Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural Best Price: $48.85 This book was interesting in the fact that it went into the supernatural, but kept it's science...	The Harmless People Best Price: $5.00 The Bushmen are well known - and intriguing - to phoneticians, because Bushman languages, along...

Twilight of the Mammoths:: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments) Best Price: $11.00 Well written and interesting, but not light reading for the average reader without a background...	People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (12th Edition) Best Price: $62.18 "People of the Earth" is not the first of Fagan's books I have read; I studied...	The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers) Best Price: $7.52 It's really a nice book... everyone should get one lol	Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins Best Price: $6.95 Finally, an explanation of evolution that is easy for the lay person to understand. The book is...	The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa Best Price: $8.99 This book I regard as one of the great books I have read in my lifetime. If books are meant to...

Linguistic Anthropology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Best Price: $36.42 I just finished reading Alesandro Duranti's 1997 book for my linguistic anthropology core class....	Plants For Dry Climates: How To Select, Grow, And Enjoy, Revised Edition Best Price: $11.98 Highly recommend this book for anyone looking to grow anything in dry climates, whether you are...	Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves Best Price: $13.00 Paleoanthropology has always been multidisciplinary. The addition of the study of the human...	Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Best Price: $17.79 A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel...	Small Places, Large Issues - Second Edition: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society) Best Price: $22.28 "Small Places, Large Issues" is an introductory textbook on the topic of Social...

Voodoo in Haiti Best Price: $11.97 Jacques Roumain's old traveling partner penned this thorough and respectful survey of Haitian...	We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear: Intimations of their Immortality Best Price: $24.98 This is the story of a family and their animal companions for thirty years. It is at one level...	Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People Best Price: $8.50 When I found this book while I was surfing the web, I thought I found a really objective...	Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society) Best Price: $16.50 Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts....	Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco Best Price: $13.98 For anthropologists, doing fieldwork is a kind of rite of passage, a process of initiation into...

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco Best Price: $13.98 For anthropologists, doing fieldwork is a kind of rite of passage, a process of initiation into...	Skin: A Natural History Best Price: $10.00 This review just touches the surface, to flesh this book out, read it. Skin is amazing -...	Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century (California Series in Public Anthropology, 10) Best Price: $19.60 Dr. Nordstrom consistently goes where most of us never will, both physically and intellectually....	Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials (MyAnthroLab Series) Best Price: $69.99 Exploring Biological Anthropology is a core concepts version of the successful text, ...	The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart Best Price: $10.57 This book covers the notion of including yourself in scholarly writing as a way of acknowledging...

Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior) Best Price: $23.96 This book is very similar to Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" except it attacks...	Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (In-formation) Best Price: $21.31 This is an excellent, detailed book defining the emergence of the concept of the biological...	$Anthropology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))$ 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...	The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen Best Price: $14.97 This riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease,...	Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds Best Price: $27.00 It was on time and in condition described. Great and honest seller! :)

Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage Best Price: $7.98 Rathje's and Murphy's RUBBISH! is insightful and engaging. Their anecdotes about the ironies of...	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. ...	The Latino Holiday Book: From Cinco de Mayo to Dia de los Muertos--the Celebrations and Traditions of Hispanic-Americans Best Price: $2.00 The Latino Holiday Book is the essential resource for everyone wanting to celebrate and honor...	Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest Best Price: $13.85 For years I though 'A Naturalist in New Guinea" by Bruce Beehler could not be topped. But...	Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America Best Price: $15.20 This book is the fascinating, inspiring and enlightening true story of a young man who was a...

Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization Best Price: $17.98 I was never able to read this book because I never received it.	Bouquet Chic: Wedding Flowers for More Than 160 Romantic Looks Best Price: $14.93 Why settle for a same-old same-old wedding bouquet that matches the tablecloths at the catering...	Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural Best Price: $48.85 This book was interesting in the fact that it went into the supernatural, but kept it's science...	The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked) Best Price: $24.75 Claude L?vi-Strauss's Mythologiques, of which this is volume 1, are brutally difficult to work...	Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants Best Price: $14.50 Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of...

The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (New Oxford World History) Best Price: $10.20 The World From Beginnings to 4000 BCE marks the first in a brilliant new series from Oxford...	The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager Best Price: $6.95 Hine has given readers the opprotunity to see into the development of one of the most...	Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Best Price: $19.84 I looked into this book a source for a term paper I was writing on Ritual Cannibalism, but then...	Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis Best Price: $11.92 I had to read this book for an anthropological theories course but it's the kind of book I can...	Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology Best Price: $16.40 Archaeology is not my field, but from the first page on, that did not seem to matter. Rosemary...

Osteology of Infants And Children Best Price: $26.00 This is an excellent book for anybody doing archaeological osteology work in the lab or field....	Media/Society: Industries, Images and Audiences Best Price: $45.00 Unquestionably, the strength and courage shown by the modern day media has been the sole driving...	Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings Best Price: $7.76 Kropotkin writes with the heart of one true to his ideals, with depth that Marx cannot reach,...	Birth as an American Rite of Passage Best Price: $14.45 this is a very important book. it may be a little heavy on the (anthropological) jargon for some...

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