General Books


Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (California Studies in Food and Culture, 11) Best Price: $13.95 I was pleasantly surprised at how fast this book was shipped to me!! The book arrived in great...	More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want Best Price: $7.98 Engelman demonstrates that providing women a basic level of health care, including effective...	Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community Best Price: $14.32 This is a very dry book. Much like some waning boot camper's war stories, or the villagers who...	American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons Best Price: $14.74 Given the current focus on the mistreatment and torture of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo and...	Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues) Best Price: $29.50 JUNKIE BUSINESS is the result of an intensive three-year ethnographic study of the formation and...



The Black Biblical Heritage Best Price: $27.95 I encountered this book years ago in the University Hills Library in Austin, Texas. Burned by...	The Aztec World Best Price: $29.36 The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team...	Landscape Plants For Dry Regions: More Than 600 Species From Around The World Best Price: $16.00 In designing my landscape for a new home, the landscape architect had this book. I bought one...	Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth Best Price: $18.96 For readers interested in learning about myth, this book is a great starting point. One of the...	Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) Best Price: $16.92 In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers...



CultureShock! Taiwan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides) Best Price: $10.92 I've been reading a handful of books around Taiwan and China; relating to their history,...	Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (American Encounters/Global Interactions) Best Price: $21.06 This is one of the best books on indigenous politics that has been written. The author's 20...	Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth Best Price: $22.43 Walter Burkert analyzes human behaviour, religion, rituals, sacrifices and myths from a...	Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations And Attainment In A Low-income Neighborhood, Expanded Edition Best Price: $12.00 When I was in college, I read several chapters of Ain't No Makin It as assigned reading for a...	The Philadelphia Negro Best Price: $15.97 Read this book! Not only was "The Philadelphia Negro" a groundbreaking piece of...

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...	The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Cultures of History) Best Price: $22.94 This is a very insightful read into one of the counterpublics of Islam. I had some knowledge...	Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras Best Price: $17.02 Working Hard and Drinking Hard is required reading for people who are concerned about the...	The Latino Holiday Book: From Cinco de Mayo to Dia de los Muertos--the Celebrations and Traditions of Hispanic-Americans Best Price: $3.94 The Latino Holiday Book is the essential resource for everyone wanting to celebrate and honor...	Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology Best Price: $10.49 Natural Symbols is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. First published over...

Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations Best Price: $6.56 Little discussed by the main stream, El Nino is shown to be a powerful influence on global...	Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text Best Price: $57.00 While I love the fact that this is a book actually written for fully literate adults and is also...	Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (Public Anthropology, 9) Best Price: $16.50 Laughter Out of Place is a wonderful ethnography in a number of ways. It captures an incredible...	Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society Best Price: $20.36 Scholarly, unbiased, thoughtful argument touching on a highly explosive, emotionally charged...	The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir (California Studies in Food and Culture) Best Price: $18.29 Amy Trubek's book is really outstanding. She traces her cultural journey in different regions...

Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings Best Price: $22.37 This book has given me a lot of useful concepts. Milton Bennett writes in his two articles in a...	Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala Best Price: $13.12 Between the late 1970s and the late 1980s, Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme...	In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification Best Price: $19.50 The general tone of this book is very much like a second rate graduate thesis. It manages to be...	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization Best Price: $5.94 Many of the historical questions that once existed, such as why the Mayan civilization...	Bouquet Chic: Wedding Flowers for More Than 160 Romantic Looks Best Price: $12.99 Why settle for a same-old same-old wedding bouquet that matches the tablecloths at the catering...

Dictionary of Symbols (Norton Paperback) Best Price: $11.76 Wonderful dictionary, very clear and clean illustrations. Interesting text accompanies each...	Ethnic Identity in Tang China (Encounters with Asia) Best Price: $42.30 Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the...	Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) Best Price: $21.80 Daniel Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes...	Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (California Series in Public Anthropology, 7) Best Price: $14.00 this book is amazing and so are her classes. i've been lucky enough to take two of her classes....	The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen Best Price: $12.47 This riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease,...

Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches Best Price: $48.13 Now in a newly updated and expanded fourth edition, "Research Methods In Anthropology:...	When Santa Was A Shaman: Ancient Origins of Santa Claus & the Christmas Tree Best Price: $19.95 When Santa Was a Shaman, by Tony Van Renterghem, 1995 I loved this book. It is well written,...	Cultural Anthropology (12th Edition) Best Price: $55.99 This comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology?helps students...	Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies) Best Price: $20.64 This is an interesting but flawed study. The author wishes to prove that informal social...	The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family Best Price: $7.49 As a chinese knowing 70's chinese farmer life, I found that the daily details the author picked...

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan Best Price: $16.82 The Takarazuka Review all-women's theater company is very popular in Japan and would make a...	The Development of Cognitive Anthropology Best Price: $26.96 D'Andrade's Development of Cognitive Anthropology provides a much-needed historical overview of...	Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt Best Price: $17.46 This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of...	The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating Best Price: $30.13 The book makes an interesting case using good evidence for most of it's text. Susanne...	King 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...

Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer Best Price: $11.44 Put simply: if you want to get a decent look at the inner-city boxing phenomenon, buy this. But...	The Inequality of Human Races Best Price: $16.95 An incredibly well-written and eye opening book. I strongly urge everyone to read this with an...	Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader Best Price: $39.84 First off, I'd like to agree with the first reviewer. This is an excellent compilation that...	Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America Best Price: $16.95 This is a perfectly good book. Not great book in the sense of works that change your philosophy...	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...

Questions of Cultural Identity Best Price: $39.49 Why and how do contemporary questions of culture become so highly charged questions of identity?...	Saudi Arabia - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!) Best Price: $5.27 Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different...	Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China Best Price: $17.46 China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all...	Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human Best Price: $5.00 "Men it appears would rather believe than know. They would rather have the void of...	Human (Dk Smithsonian Institution) Best Price: $16.50 Informative and interesting. Don't like that it's beginning is based in evolution but other...

Watch and Pray: A Portrait of Fante Village Life in Transition (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $31.25 The matrilineal Fante are members of one of the most populous ethnic groups in Ghana, the Akan....	In the Realm of the Diamond Queen Best Price: $17.99 I found Tsing's book to be very informative about the Meratus culture of Indonesia, as well as...

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