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Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States Best Price: $10.77 Irvine has done some wonderful research for this comprehensive book. The problem is that she...	The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective Best Price: $7.30 'The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective' is an early 1970s...	Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method Best Price: $20.46 I got this book after a long held interest in visual anthropology. Its simple informative text...	Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3: Environment, Origins, and Population: Environment, Origins, and Population (Handbook of North American Indians) Best Price: $65.80 Got a chance to see a copy of this recently. A beautiful volume -- a wonderful complement to the...	Sources of the Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present, Volume Two Best Price: $67.27 It was rather slow in arriving, but the price was good and the quality was fine (it was a new book).



Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues Best Price: $4.89 Hiebert does a great job of presenting some very thought-provoking essays on questions of...	What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes Best Price: $16.00 If you're interested in what can and cannot be learned from the new advances in genetics...	Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia Best Price: $14.54 Michael Taussig offers a glimpse of the possibilities in his book Law in a Lawless Land: Diary...	Images of the Past with PowerWeb Best Price: $35.00 This well illustrated, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest,...	Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner Gren International Symposium Series) Best Price: $25.14 Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes...



The Amish of Lancaster County Best Price: $8.49 More than 5 million people visit Lancaster County every year to experience the culture of the...	Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Best Price: $23.91 I am satisfied! Am pleased to have received my order in a timely fashion.	Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle Best Price: $10.07 A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends...	A History of Anthropological Theory Best Price: $131.94 This was the required text for Anthropological Theory. I would have been hopelessly lost...	American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture Best Price: $20.62 In American Artifacts: Essays In Material Culture, Jules Prown and Ken Haltman have assembled...

Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto Best Price: $10.00 After reading this book, I was so compelled to contact the author in France. Ms. Amara has...	Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization Best Price: $24.25 From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder...	Cultural Resistance Reader Best Price: $13.10 From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the...	Reflecting on America: Anthropological Views of U.S. Culture Best Price: $26.39	Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Best Price: $63.51 Reading this book modified my self-image and expanded my understanding of the image-making...

The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins Best Price: $28.99 about geology, anthropology and paleantology. This book gives minutely detailed information...	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...	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...	Skull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity Best Price: $8.89 I really savored every page of this book. One of the best I have EVER read on both an OVERVIEW...	Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) Best Price: $21.63 Daniel Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes...

The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction (Studies in Medical Anthropology) (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Best Price: $22.19 In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the...	The Book of the Dead Best Price: $5.95 This book is proof that many archeologists and egyptologists don't know what they are talking...	The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town (Music Culture) Best Price: $17.45 from website: "This study of local music-making in the modern English town of Milton...	Intelligence in Nature Best Price: $2.19 Narby takes the reader on a fantastic global journey, attempting to answer the question...	Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative Best Price: $21.61 The anthropologist Michael Taussig provides a detailed and thoughful narrative on the cultural...

The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family Best Price: $7.66 As a chinese knowing 70's chinese farmer life, I found that the daily details the author picked...	Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, And the New Black/nonblack Divide Best Price: $20.25 First Yancey's use of the term "Latino" as it relates to non-whites is innacurate. The...	Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China Best Price: $19.13 Spring rice reports on the history of HIV in China. Data I just read indicates that the HIV...	The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Best Price: $16.00 A very nice book if one is interested in understanding how DNA analysis is being used to trace...	World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction (7th Edition) Best Price: $62.57 Man's innate curiosity with their past has given birth to sciences that attempt to satisfy such...

Linguistic Anthropology Workbook and Reader Best Price: $25.00 Classic and contemporary exercises and readings are presented in the workbook/reader. They are...	Russia and Soul: An Exploration Best Price: $22.49	Essentials of Physical Anthropology (with InfoTrac) Best Price: $29.24 I bought this book for a lower-division anthropology class, and found it one of the few books...	Anthropology and Religion: What We Know, Think, and Question Best Price: $31.45 Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this text covers what...	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...

Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Best Price: $31.89 Taussig has been described as a high theorist writing as a beatnik novelist. A pretty good...	The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property : Whose Culture? Whose Property? Best Price: $22.45 This goal of this volume is to present a variety of perspectives on cultural heritage issues to...	The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes With English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty O Best Price: $10.72 Our standard secondary school history jumps abruptly from Jamestown and Plymouth Rock to...	Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island (Lisa Drew Books) Best Price: $27.00 This is a thoughtful and revealing biography of the woman who did the first major study of...	Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) Best Price: $18.50 This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central...

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook Best Price: $44.99 This book is a good introduction for students that has never studied the subject or a student...	Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help Best Price: $15.00 The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture--from The Sopranos to Oprah, ...	Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing Best Price: $18.68 Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present...	Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics Best Price: $19.60 It seems to be de rigueur for the introduction or first chapter of any cultural studies book to...	Direct Action: An Ethnography Best Price: $17.13 Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global...

At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil Best Price: $12.54 It was helpful to read a non-Christian study on street children. It was definitely more...	Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala Best Price: $13.17 Between the late 1970s and the late 1980s, Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme...	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...	The Culture of Craft (Studies in Design and Material Culture) Best Price: $16.76 Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft...	Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia Best Price: $21.01 Nancy Grey Postero's Now We Are Citizens is a tremendous contribution to Latin American and...

Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) Best Price: $23.35 Some experts call Walter Benjamin's 1000-plus page magnum opus The Arcades Project (Cambridge:...	Sacrifice: Its Nature and Functions Best Price: $22.50	The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective Best Price: $39.55 From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, natural and...	Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture Best Price: $17.08 Patrick McGovern's distinctly archaeological analysis of wine in prehistory documents the...	Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness Best Price: $4.00 Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall tackles a difficult question: what is it, exactly, that...

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