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The Ancient Celtsby Barry CunliffeISBN 0198150105 (0-19-815010-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Celts'Book summary:Each generation, the British scholar Jacquetta Hawkes has observed, chooses the archaeology that best suits its current ideology. For a century beginning in the late 1800s, archaeologists depicted the Celts as an inordinately brave and poetic tribal people who battled their way across the Eurasian world without being unduly aggressive--in the manner, that is, of good colonialists. Today some archaeologists are more inclined to consider the Celts as a people who kept ethnic unity alive across a huge span of territory and time, a view that may offer comfort in a time when, as Oxford University professor Barry Cunliffe writes, "ethnic divisions are becoming a painful and disturbing reality." Cunliffe himself takes the view that the Celts were at once alike and diverse, which led to the formation of many different Celtic cultures from the Black Sea to Ireland. This heavily illustrated, well-written book tells their story well, from the beginnings of Celtic culture in the distant Indo-European past to the height of Celtic power in the third century A.D. [via]
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Ancient Polynesian Societyby Irving GoldmanISBN 0226301141 (0-226-30114-1)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Anthropology in Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Societyby Robert A. Hahn, Kate W. HarrisISBN 019511955X (0-19-511955-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Apologies To Thucydides: Understanding History As Culture And Vice Versaby Marshall David SahlinsISBN 0226734005 (0-226-73400-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Robert L. MacKISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities of his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his realm and to a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which she nightly postpones the Sultan's murderous intent have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of stories before or since. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance in Arabian Nights' Entertainments. This edition is the only one to offer the complete text of the earliest English translation, and also provides full notes and plot summaries, especially important in a such a sprawling work of great complexity. [via]
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Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Studying Pastoralism, Drought, and Development in Africa's Arid Landsby Elliot M. FratkinISBN 0205391427 (0-205-39142-7)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa's Arid Landsby Elliot FratkinISBN 0205269974 (0-205-26997-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theoryby Alfred GellISBN 0198280149 (0-19-828014-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Communityby Lawrence RosenISBN 0226726118 (0-226-72611-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community'Book summary:Much modern anthropology has assumed that an adequate description of any society consists of rules that inform its members' relationships and the logic that unites their cultural symbols. In this book Lawrence Rosen argues that, for the people who live in and around the Moroccan city of Sefrou, attachment to others and the terms by which they are conceived are, at their most fundamental level, subject to a constant process of negotiation.[via]
Drawing on the philosophy of speech acts as well as interpretive theory, Rosen shows how, for the people of this Muslim community, reality consists of the network of obligations formed by individuals out of a repertoire of relational possibilities whose defining terms are comprised by a set of essentially negotiable concepts. He thus demonstrates that the bonds of family, tribe, and political alliance take shape only as the bargains struck in and through the malleable terms that describe them take shape; that statements about relationship are no more true than a price mentioned in the marketplace until properly validated; that the relations between men and women, Arabs and Berbers, Muslims and Jews test the limits of interpersonal negotiation; and that the concepts of time, character, and narrative style are consonant with a view of reality as bargained-for network of obligations.
Bargaining for Reality makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern society and to the development of powerful new interpretive strategies for a wide range of social theorists.
"[Rosen's] book is extremely useful for African and Middle Eastern historians, because he challenges some of our most basic ideas about the nature and force of kinship, tribe, ethnicity, and other large- and small-scale political ties."Allan R. Meyers, International Journal of African Historical Studies
"The book conveys a compelling image of Moroccan social experience and is peppered with vivid anecdotes and case histories."Stephen William Foster, American AnthropologistMore editions of Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community:
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Bengali Womenby Manisha RoyISBN 0226730433 (0-226-73043-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bengali Women'Book summary:Drawing on personal experiences and interviews with others, Roy explores the frustrations and rewards in the lives of Hindu Bengali women in upper and upper-middle class families in India. Roy traces the psychological dimensions of these women as they play their specific roles, including daughter, wife, mother, and sister-in-law.[via]
In a new Afterword, Roy discusses changes in Bengali society and culture over the last two decades which have direct bearings on women's lives: divorce and the breakup of the joint family, education, increasing Westernization via television and women's magazines, and the erosion of traditional religious practices. 
The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southwest Nigeriaby David Uru IyamISBN 0226388492 (0-226-38849-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932-1951by Louis Seymour Bazett LeakeyISBN 015615000X (0-15-615000-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 0156180359 (0-15-618035-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'Book summary:Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. [via]
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Conversations With Claude Levi-Straussby Claude Levi-Strauss, Didier Eribon, Paula WissingISBN 0226474755 (0-226-47475-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss'Book summary:At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by Le Figaro as "an event," the resulting conversations between Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon (a correspondent for Le Nouvel Observateur) reveal the great anthropologist speaking of his life and work with ease and humor.[via]
Now available in English, the conversations are rich in Lévi-Strauss's candid appraisals of some of the best-known figures of the Parisian intelligentsia: surrealists André Breton and Max Ernst, with whom Lévi-Strauss shared a bohemian life in 1940s Manhattan; de Beauvoir, Sartre, and Camus, the stars of existentialism; Leiris, Foucault, Dumézil, Jacob, Lacan, and others. His long friendships with Jakobson and Merleau-Ponty are recalled, as well as his encounters with prominent figures in American anthropology: Lowie, Boas (who suddenly died in his chair beside Lévi-Strauss at a banquet at Columbia University), Benedict, Linton, Mead, and Kroeber.
Lévi-Strauss speaks frankly about how circumstances and his own inclinations, after his early fieldwork in Brazil, led him to embrace theoretical work. His straightforward answers to Eribon's penetrating questionsWhat is a myth? What is structuralism? Are you a philosopher?clarify his intellectual motives and the development of his research; his influential role as an administrator, including the founding of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology and of the journal L'Homme; the course of his writings, from Elementary Structures of Kinship to The Jealous Potter; and his thoughts on the conduct of anthropology today.
Never before has Lévi-Strauss spoken so freely on so many aspects of his life: his initial failure to be elected to the Collège de France; his reaction to the events of May 1968; his regrets at not being a great investigative reporter or playwright; his deep identification with Wagner, Proust, and Rousseau. This is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with a great thinker in all his dimensions.More editions of Conversations With Claude Levi-Strauss:
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Conversations With Ogotemmeli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideasby M. GriauleISBN 0195198212 (0-19-519821-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Counterfeit Moneyby Jacques Derrida, Peggy KamufISBN 0226143139 (0-226-14313-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Counterfeit Money'Book summary:Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.[via]
Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years.
For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.More editions of Counterfeit Money:
Cultural Anthropologyby Barbara D. MillerISBN 0205488080 (0-205-48808-0)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practiceby Bruce LincolnISBN 0226482006 (0-226-48200-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizationsby E.C. KruppISBN 0195088018 (0-19-508801-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Evolutionby Mark RidleyISBN 0199267944 (0-19-926794-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Evolution of Human Sexualityby Donald SymonsISBN 0195029070 (0-19-502907-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Evolutionary Medicineby Wenda R. Trevathan, James J. McKenna, Euclid O. SmithISBN 0195103564 (0-19-510356-4)
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Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernityby Micaela Di LeonardoISBN 0226472647 (0-226-47264-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religionby Stewart Elliott GuthrieISBN 0195098919 (0-19-509891-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Fear and Conventionalityby Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley DeaconISBN 0226647463 (0-226-64746-3)
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First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American Peopleby Richard PriceISBN 0226680606 (0-226-68060-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People'Book summary:A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. The top half of each page presents a direct transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rain forests of Suriname. Below these transcripts, Richard Price provides commentaries placing the Saramaka accounts into broader social, intellectual, and historical contexts.[via]
First-Time's unique style of presentation preserves the integrity of both its oral and documentary sources, uniting them in a profound meditation on the roles of history and memory. This second edition includes a new preface by the author, discussing First-Time's impact and recounting the continuing struggles of the Saramaka people.More editions of First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People:
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Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondentsby Ulf Hannerz, Anthony T. CarterISBN 0226315754 (0-226-31575-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents'Book summary:Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.[via]
Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can go well beyond coverage of a specific event, using the news instead to reveal deeper insights into a country or a people to link them to long-term trends or structures of global significance. Ultimately, Hannerz argues that both anthropologists and foreign correspondents can learn from each other in their efforts to educate a public about events and peoples far beyond our homelands.
The result of nearly a decade's worth of work, Foreign News is a provocative study that will appeal to both general readers and those concerned with globalization.More editions of Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents:
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Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Developmentby Richard ReedISBN 0205198228 (0-205-19822-8)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dreamby H. G. BissingerISBN 0201196778 (0-201-19677-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream'Book summary:Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget. [via]
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Given Timeby Jacques Derrida, Peggy KamufISBN 0226143147 (0-226-14314-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Given Time'Book summary:Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.[via]
Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years.
For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.More editions of Given Time:
Guide to Fossil Manby Michael H. DayISBN 0226138895 (0-226-13889-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Gypsy Folktalesby Diane TongISBN 0156379899 (0-15-637989-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gypsy Folktales'Book summary:Stretching back many centuries to its origins in India, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast, diverse treasury of folktales. The eighty tales in this volume are gathered from thirty-one different countries. Each tale has a headnote elucidating the tales background. Index; photographs.[via]More editions of Gypsy Folktales:
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Hallucinogens and Shamanismby Michael J. HarnerISBN 0195016491 (0-19-501649-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Handbook of North American Indians: Southwestby William C. Sturtevant, Alfonso OrtizISBN 0160045770 (0-16-004577-0)
Hardcover, Bernan Assoc
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Historiaeby Karl HudeISBN 0198145268 (0-19-814526-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Historiae'Book summary:Herodotus of Halicarnassus was an Ionian traveler and storyteller who lived in the 5th century BC 484 BC-ca. 425 BC . He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories, a collection of 'inquiries' about the places and peoples he encountered during his wide-ranging travels around the Mediterranean littoral and into Mesopotamia. [via]
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The Historiesby Herodotus, Robin Waterfield, Carolyn DewaldISBN 0192824252 (0-19-282425-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Recently, the critical and popular acclaim for The English Patient, whose hero makes The Histories his constant companion, has attracted a new, and wider, audience.
Compelled by his desire to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time," Herotodus recounts the incidents leading up to the Persian Wars and the Greeks' stunning victory over the more powerful invading Persian forces. But Herotodus gives us much more than military history. By employing multiple points of view and incorporating the diverse stories he collected during his extensive travels, Herotodus provides the fullest portrait of the classical world of the 5th and 6th centuries. And because he writes in a style highly susceptible to digression, his book includes all manner of marvelous observations--from ants the size of dogs in India, to people who live in caves and chirp like bats in Libya, to flying snakes in Egypt. Most importantly, throughout The Histories Herotodus shows us the ruin that comes to those who overreach their natural boundaries, who fail to heed sensible warnings or act without understanding the web of reciprocity that connects all things.
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The History: Herodotusby Herodotus, David GreneISBN 0226327728 (0-226-32772-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politicsby Daniel G. BatesISBN 0205418155 (0-205-41815-5)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics'Book summary:Based on Bates' Cultural Anthropology, this book provides a framework for analyzing cultures based on their economic systems.
Cultural ecology is the study of human behavior and culture within an environmental context. It examines how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. Based on a selection of materials from Bates and Fratkin's Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition, Human Adaptive Strategies uses case studies to show how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their methods of surviving in their environment have affected other aspects of their culture. One reviewer says, Concentrating, as the book does, on subsistence patterns and cultural ecology, it creates a conceptual structure conducive to the needs of the introductory student in anthropology. The new third edition includes an expanded discussion of basic ecological concepts and ecosystem components and organization; expanded material on population related issues; and addresses in some depth the controversy involving Napolean Chagnon's work as it touches on a number of important aspects of scholarship and research.
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The Human Condition in Latin Americaby Eric Robert WolfISBN 019501569X (0-19-501569-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Humankind Emerging: The Concise Editionby James Loy, Bernard Grant CampbellISBN 0205325092 (0-205-32509-2)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropologyby Vincent CrapanzanoISBN 0226118746 (0-226-11874-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexesby J. AxtellISBN 0195027418 (0-19-502741-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the Stateby David Maybury-LewisISBN 0205337465 (0-205-33746-5)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Introduction to Social Anthropologyby L. MairISBN 0198740115 (0-19-874011-5)
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Jealous Gods And Chosen People: The Mythology Of The Middle Eastby David LeemingISBN 0195182529 (0-19-518252-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Kinship And the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morganby Meyer Fortes, Lionel TigerISBN 0202308022 (0-202-30802-2)
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Kinship in Baliby Clifford Geertz, Hildred GeertzISBN 0226285162 (0-226-28516-2)
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The Latex Companionby Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Alexander SamarinISBN 0201541998 (0-201-54199-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Latex Companion'Book summary:LaTeX is an accessible and effective tool for typesetting written documents. Users at all levels of experience, however, sometimes require help not readily available: techniques for defining new commands, styles for producing tables or graphics, explanations for changing fonts. This book, The LaTeX Companion, is packed with information needed to use LaTeX even more productively. It is a true companion to Leslie Lamport's original user's guide book, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, now in its second edition, and indeed, it is a valuable complement to any LaTeX introduction. It is designed to enhance, not to replace, your basic documentation. Coinciding with the publication of The LaTeX Companion is the availability of a revised LaTeX standard LaTeX2e. This new release incorporates important LaTeX developments over the past several years and provides a common basis for all LaTeX enhancements. Some new styles, improved font handling, and a facility to produce PostScript graphics are included in the release. As part of the broad and unique coverage of this book you will find a complete documentation for all these added features. Highlights *Covers all versions of LaTeX now in use, including LaTeX2e. *Describes over 150 convenient styles for floats, graphics, tables, and much more. *Shows how to define new commands and environments. *Explains the use of PostScript. *Covers the latest extensions and programs producing pictures, indexes, bibliographies, and advanced mathematics. *Includes techniques for multi-language support. *Describes the New Font Selection Scheme. For even more information about how to illustrate documents with TeX and PostScript, see The LaTeX Graphics Companion and the Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting Series. All three authors have for years been involved in the support and development of LaTeX applications. Michel Goossens and Alexander Samarin, developed ideas for The LaTeX Companion while supporting hundreds of LaTeX users at CERN, and Frank Mittelbach, at the University of Mainz and Electronic Data Systems. The questions most frequently posed to them became the questions answered in this book. Mittelbach is partly responsible for the current maintenance of LaTeX and is the author or coauthor of many widespread LaTeX extension packages, such as AMS-LaTeX, doc, multicol, and the New Font Selection Scheme. He is also the manager, principal architect of the longer-term LaTeX3 project, to which half the royalties from this book are paid. 0201541998B04062001 [via]
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Frances Gies, Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0213763796 (0-213-76379-6)
Hardcover, Barker
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Man Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagyby W. ArensISBN 0195027930 (0-19-502793-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Presentby Yehudi A. CohenISBN 0202011097 (0-202-01109-7)
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Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experienceby Gananath ObeyesekereISBN 0226616010 (0-226-61601-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Mexican Dream Or, the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizationsby J.-M. G. Le ClezioISBN 0226110028 (0-226-11002-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Middletownby Robert Staught LyndISBN 0156595508 (0-15-659550-8)
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Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktalesby Kirin Narayan, Urmila Devi SoodISBN 0195103491 (0-19-510349-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Humanby Ian TattersallISBN 0198515693 (0-19-851569-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in Americaby Esther NewtonISBN 0226577600 (0-226-57760-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Music Grooves: Essays and Dialoguesby Charles Keil, Steven FeldISBN 0226429571 (0-226-42957-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Clubby Anne AllisonISBN 0226014878 (0-226-01487-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Nine Dayak Nightsby William Robert GeddesISBN 0195826213 (0-19-582621-3)
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Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Peter J. Richerson, Robert BoydISBN 0226712842 (0-226-71284-2)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution'Book summary:Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics.[via]
Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economicsand building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry themRicherson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature.
In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come.
I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable. Robin Dunbar, Nature
Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities. E. O. Wilson, Harvard UniversityMore editions of Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution:
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Robert Boyd, Peter J. RichersonISBN 0226712125 (0-226-71212-5)
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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesotaby Nancy Foner, Jon HoltzmanISBN 0205296793 (0-205-29679-3)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Realityby Maria PowersISBN 0226677494 (0-226-67749-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europeby Barry CunliffeISBN 0192854410 (0-19-285441-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europeby Barry CunliffeISBN 0198143850 (0-19-814385-0)
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People of the Sierraby Julian Pitt-RiversISBN 0226670104 (0-226-67010-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'People of the Sierra'Book summary:The People of the Sierra presents an engrossing account of the social structure of a rural community in Andalusia, the mountainous region of southern Spain. The author applies the principles of social anthropology, without recourse to jargon, to determine the nature of the leaders of a European peasant societythe mayor, doctor, lawyer, priestand also the smugglers, bandits, "witches," and gypsies who live on the fringe.[via]
For his second edition of The People of the Sierra Julian A. Pitt-River has unmasked the village of Grazalema which had been protectively cloaked in pseudonym for the original version. In addition he has added a new preface which elaborates upon his earlier theories on norms, values, and social structure, and reconsiders them in the light of current theories of other social scientists.
Because of its unique and penetrating observations, not only Hispanic, Mediterranean, and European but also Latin American scholars regard this book as one of the foundation stones of contemporary cultural studies in several disciplines. Beyond the significance of its substance and theory, this study has considerable merit as a humane work of subtle perception and artful execution. 
The Peyote Religion Among the Navahoby David F. Aberle, Harvey C. MooreISBN 0226000834 (0-226-00083-4)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cultby Pnina WerbnerISBN 0195979850 (0-19-597985-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human Historyby Ernest GellnerISBN 0226287025 (0-226-28702-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Ritual Theory, Ritual Practiceby Catherine BellISBN 0195076133 (0-19-507613-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sacrificeby Henri HubertISBN 0226356795 (0-226-35679-5)
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachiaby Dennis CovingtonISBN 0201622920 (0-201-62292-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia'Book summary:Salvation on Sand Mountain is a story of snake handling and strychnine drinking, of faith healing and speaking in tongues. It is also the story of one man's search for his roots--and, in the end, of his spiritual renewal. Writer Dennis Covington came to this ecstatic form of Christianity as a reporter covering a sensational murder case; Glen Summerford, pastor of the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, had been accused of attempting to kill his wife with rattlesnakes. There, in a courtroom filled with journalists and gawking spectators, Covington felt the pull of a spirituality that was to dominate his life for the next several years. Attending Summerford's church out of curiosity, he soon forged close friendships with some of the worshippers, began attending snake-handling services throughout the South, and eventually took up snakes himself.
With subject matter this lurid, Salvation on Sand Mountain could have been a Southern-fried curiosity and little more. Covington goes far deeper. Tracing the snake handlers' roots in regional history, in the deep spiritual alienation of mountain people from the secular modern world they have so recently joined, Covington is more than just sympathetic to the snake handlers; in a profound way, he considers himself one of them. His reasoning is sometimes flawed--when he attempts to find snake handlers in his own family's past, for instance, the result is belabored and unconvincing--but there's no doubt that Covington's heart is in the right place. He's also not without his own brand of sly gallows humor, as in this conversation with the elderly Gracie McAllister: "She'd swore she'd never handle rattlesnakes in July again. She'd been bit the previous two Julys. 'I decided I'd just handle fire and drink strychnine that night,' she said. Good idea, I thought. It always pays to be on the safe side."
Covington eventually breaks with the snake handlers, but comes away from the experience a changed man. "Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there," he writes. An American Book Award winner and finalist for the National Book Award, Salvation on Sand Mountain is a nuanced, compassionate portrait of an unforgettable spiritual journey. --Mary Park [via]
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The Social Ecology of Religionby Vernon Reynolds, Ralph E. S. TannerISBN 0195069749 (0-19-506974-9)
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Structure and Sentimentby Rodney NeedhamISBN 0226569896 (0-226-56989-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Characterby Samuel Noah KramerISBN 0226452387 (0-226-45238-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character'Book summary:The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.[via]
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
"There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."American Journal of Archaeology
"An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."Library JournalMore editions of The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character:
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Theories of Primitive Religionby E. Evans-PritchardISBN 0198231318 (0-19-823131-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories of Primitive Religion'Book summary:The Sir D. Owen Evans Lectures delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1962. [via]
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To Hunt in the Morningby Janet SiskindISBN 0195018915 (0-19-501891-5)
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