General Books


Up from Eden, New Edition: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution Best Price: $5.97 Up From Eden is a brilliant account of the evolution of human consciousness. It is scholarly yet...	A Courtship after Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families Best Price: $20.41 The book arrived within two weeks of my ordering it and was in the condition advertised.	Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras Best Price: $17.86 Working Hard and Drinking Hard is required reading for people who are concerned about the...	Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings Best Price: $22.54 This book has given me a lot of useful concepts. Milton Bennett writes in his two articles in a...	Birth as an American Rite of Passage Best Price: $20.65 this is a very important book. it may be a little heavy on the (anthropological) jargon for some...



Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Best Price: $21.15 When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural...	Native American Voices: A Reader (2nd Edition) Best Price: $61.14 This reader is a great resource for teachers at all levels. It proved to be a great help in my...	Understanding Vietnam Best Price: $8.90 This is a superb scholarly work which is a must-read for anyone interested in Vietnam -- its...	What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Latin America Otherwise) Best Price: $16.00 this study is probably one of the easiest to read, and really makes you feel a connection with...	Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) Best Price: $15.00 This is a fascinating and truly groundbreaking study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of...



Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter (The Anthropology of Christianity) Best Price: $18.45 Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and...	Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America Best Price: $10.13 The author of this book makes no excuses for his own wealth, nor for what he's done with his...	History and Theory in Anthropology Best Price: $28.32 This bood represents a clear and concise treatment of anthropological theory. Alan Barnard...	Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival Best Price: $19.62 This is a stunning book. Written by a sociologist, it combines the best of anthropology,...	Culture And Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, And Brand Management Best Price: $16.86 A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking Culture and Consumption, this new book trades...

Gypsies Best Price: $20.09 definitive for all the historic reasons but clunky and labored. Still... the culture of the...	The Little Big Book of Christmas Best Price: $17.42 This is an excellent book for any parent and/or grandparent to have in their library and share...	Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty Best Price: $7.06 I first read this book many years ago, along with some of the author's other works, and decided...	Latinos: Remaking America (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies) Best Price: $17.00 Latinos: Remaking America is heady stuff that is the perfect textbook for a Sociology class...	Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers Best Price: $16.49 As middle-class Chinese women have entered the Hong Kong work force in unprecedented numbers...

Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa, 57) Best Price: $15.69 This is a truly rich and incisive ethnography of an African nation in the midst of long-term...	Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind (Civilization of the American Indian Series) Best Price: $15.00 These Aztec poems and narratives reveal deep questions about the nature of humans and the...	Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples and Disease Best Price: $76.04 I ordered this book when I first began my research using DNA markers. I found it very easy to...	Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology Best Price: $44.39 This book gives you really good insight on the investigation of remains. I used this in my...	A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition Best Price: $26.04 The book is fair and illuminating in giving us a Kurdish side of Turkish, Iraqi and Iranian...

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley Best Price: $12.25 This book has some weaknesses, but it still deserves five stars for the introduction of the...	After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination Best Price: $12.55 I found this a refreshing take on the stale question of Darwinian evolution, but must hasten to...	Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text Best Price: $60.00 While I love the fact that this is a book actually written for fully literate adults and is also...	Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology (MyAnthroLab Series) Best Price: $39.99 This?brief version of the popular Cul tural Anthropology, 12/e ?by the same author team, Human...	The Human Story Best Price: $11.89 A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most...

Kant: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $16.37 Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for...	Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) Best Price: $19.61 Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural...	Direct Action: An Ethnography Best Price: $17.13 Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global...	Postcolonial Disorders (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) Best Price: $23.49 The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where...	Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes Best Price: $25.50 The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean...

Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, Second Edition Best Price: $10.00 McDonald's Restaurants are to be found world-wide and books have been written on their business...	The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought Best Price: $3.88 As a social scientist, I approached this book with some trepidation, especially when I noticed...	After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination Best Price: $11.97 I found this a refreshing take on the stale question of Darwinian evolution, but must hasten to...	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...	Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Media Edition (with Basic Genetics for Anthropology CD-ROM and InfoTrac) Best Price: $19.95 It's not in it's best condition and it came later than i expect it would be. It's did came...

The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins Best Price: $27.95 about geology, anthropology and paleantology. This book gives minutely detailed information...	Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear Best Price: $12.84 Not quite as good as her second book: "Halloween Merrymaking," but still absolutely...	Studies in Ethnomethodology (Social & political theory) Best Price: $28.81 I just read first 30 pages of the book, and I must say, Professor Garfinkel is a terrible...	Cultural Resistance Reader Best Price: $13.10 From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the...	Ethnography And The Historical Imagination (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination) Best Price: $42.30 Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their...

Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research Best Price: $12.20 Beautiful book. This book brings to life the science of Huntington's, as well as the personal...	Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsun-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsun-Milarepa, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering Best Price: $17.97 This is the second book in the Tibetan series from W.Y.Evans-Wentz. If you really want to begin...	Structural Anthropology Best Price: $18.39 Levi-Strauss ranks with Darwin for being hugely misunderstood. Like Darwin, what people say...	Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners Best Price: $2.44 Lively and interesting narrative surrounds the technical info, making it easy to read and...	Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras Best Price: $17.86 Working Hard and Drinking Hard is required reading for people who are concerned about the...

Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore Best Price: $14.38 "Dundes observed that variations in the oral tradition were preserved in the Bible...	Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader Best Price: $25.07 "Theorizing the City has become fundamental reading for those students of urban society and...	The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Best Price: $25.95 This text provides an introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, which appeals to...	Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places Best Price: $3.49 When you drive home everyday and pass the same buildings you have passed for years, you forget,...	Gypsies: The Hidden Americans Best Price: $20.98 This is definitely a used text book. Has a bit of underlining and a one color cover. It's pretty...

Serial Murderers and their Victims (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series) Best Price: $52.67 Of the many, many books I have read on this topic (which is one of my areas of interests) this...	Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East Best Price: $12.10 brian whitaker tackled a subject that is very touchy-- how the gay and lesbian arabs live in...	City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in S?o Paulo Best Price: $16.94 Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in S?o Paulo poses essential...

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