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Accommodation Without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High Schoolby Margaret A. GibsonISBN 0801495032 (0-8014-9503-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Romeby Numa Denis Fustel De CoulangesISBN 0801823048 (0-8018-2304-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Ancient Israelby Harry M. OrlinskyISBN 080149849X (0-8014-9849-X)
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Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arcticby George WenzelISBN 0802068901 (0-8020-6890-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Methodby Stanley R. BarrettISBN 0802078338 (0-8020-7833-8)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Centruryby David BindmanISBN 0801440858 (0-8014-4085-8)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Biocultural Basis of Health: Expanding Views of Medical Anthropologyby Lorna G. MooreISBN 0801634814 (0-8016-3481-4)
Softcover, Mosby
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The Birth of Sydneyby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0802136990 (0-8021-3699-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Birth Trap: The Legal Lowdown on High-Tech Birthing Practicesby Yvonne Brackbill, June Rice, Diony YoungISBN 0801606780 (0-8016-0678-0)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatryby Armando R. FavazzaISBN 0801853001 (0-8018-5300-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace.
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A Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesby Jan BondesonISBN 0801434319 (0-8014-3431-9)
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Caribbean Contoursby Sidney W. Mintz, Sally PriceISBN 0801832721 (0-8018-3272-1)
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China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalismby Hill GatesISBN 0801484766 (0-8014-8476-6)
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Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin Americaby William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Samper Kutschbach, Mario Samper K.ISBN 0801848873 (0-8018-4887-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Community and Society in Roman Italyby Stephen L. DysonISBN 0801867606 (0-8018-6760-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Creative Explosion: An Inquiry into the Origins of Art and Religionby John E. PfeifferISBN 0801493080 (0-8014-9308-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Familyby Matthews Masayuki HamabataISBN 0801499755 (0-8014-9975-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Cry of the Eagle: Encounters With a Cree Healerby Lise Swartz, David Young, Grant IngramISBN 0802068200 (0-8020-6820-0)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel Self and Other in Literatureby R. GirardISBN 0801818303 (0-8018-1830-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Cultureby Frederic C. SchafferISBN 0801486912 (0-8014-8691-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Digging Up Bonesby Don R BrothwellISBN 0801498759 (0-8014-9875-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes Among the Ndembu of Zambiaby Victor Witter TurnerISBN 080149205X (0-8014-9205-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Egypt in the Age of the Pyramidsby Guillemette Andreu, David LortonISBN 0801483131 (0-8014-8313-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Egyptian Religionby Siegfried MorenzISBN 0801480299 (0-8014-8029-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Escapismby Yi-Fu TuanISBN 0801865409 (0-8018-6540-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Reproductive Behaviorby Peter Moller, Dori LecroyISBN 0801866960 (0-8018-6696-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russiaby Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, Edward LimonovISBN 0802136524 (0-8021-3652-4)
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontierby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0802137199 (0-8021-3719-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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First Lightby Peter AckroydISBN 0802134815 (0-8021-3481-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Light'Book summary:First Light is not the darkest of Peter Ackroyd's novels (Hawksmoor has that honor), but fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels, in a humorous suspense story as cleverly paced as a Hitchcock thriller. The story is that the excavation of a neolithic, astronomically aligned grave under the pastoral hills of Dorset, England, coincides with the startling reappearance of ancient stars (including H. P. Lovecraft's Aldebaran) in the night sky. A group of deliciously eccentric characters--archaeologists, astronomers, a stuffy civil servant, a stand-up comic, and vaguely menacing local villagers--converge at the site and collide with each other. As Gabriele Annan wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph, "Ackroyd is such a master of mood, of tension, angst, foreboding, frisson, but also of tenderness and exultation, that one is drawn into his tale as by a magus." [via]
Five Bodies: The Human Shape of Modern Societyby John O'NeillISBN 0801494559 (0-8014-9455-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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French Chivalry Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Medby PainterISBN 0801490618 (0-8014-9061-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writingsby Gandhi, Homer A. JackISBN 0802131611 (0-8021-3161-1)
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The Greek Way of Life: From Conception to Old Ageby Robert GarlandISBN 0801480280 (0-8014-8028-0)
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The Growth of Minds and Cultures : A Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Experienceby Willem H. VanderburgISBN 0802025781 (0-8020-2578-1)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canadaby Eva MackeyISBN 0802084818 (0-8020-8481-8)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
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The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetryby Edward MarxISBN 080208799X (0-8020-8799-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cubaby Mona RosendahlISBN 080148412X (0-8014-8412-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York Cityby Kyeyoung ParkISBN 0801483913 (0-8014-8391-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Lakota Womanby Mary Crow Dog, Richard ErdoesISBN 0802111017 (0-8021-1101-7)
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Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Cultureby Ellen LewinISBN 080148099X (0-8014-8099-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in Chinaby Hill GatesISBN 0801486327 (0-8014-8632-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Middle East and Islamic World Readerby Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart SchaarISBN 0802139361 (0-8021-3936-1)
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Mien Relations: Mountain People And State Control in Thailandby Hjorleifur JonssonISBN 0801472849 (0-8014-7284-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Myth of Quetzalcoatlby Enrique Florescano, Raul Velazquez, Lysa HochrothISBN 0801871018 (0-8018-7101-8)
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A Natural History of Homosexualityby Francis Mark MondimoreISBN 0801854407 (0-8018-5440-7)
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby Carlo Ginzburg, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843863 (0-8018-4386-3)
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Nuba Personal Artby James C. FarisISBN 0802018572 (0-8020-1857-2)
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Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampmentby Louise KrasniewiczISBN 0801499380 (0-8014-9938-0)
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Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Among Nepal's Tamangby David H. HolmbergISBN 0801480558 (0-8014-8055-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Peasant Politics: Struggle in a Dominican Villageby Kenneth Evan SharpeISBN 0801819520 (0-8018-1952-0)
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Peasants and Capital: Dominion in the World Economyby Michel-Rolph TrouillotISBN 0801834813 (0-8018-3481-3)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapyby Jerome David FrankISBN 080181443X (0-8018-1443-X)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapyby Julia B. Frank, Jerome David FrankISBN 0801846366 (0-8018-4636-6)
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Polyethnicity and National Unity in World Historyby William McNeillISBN 0802066437 (0-8020-6643-7)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practiceby Byron E. Shafer, Leonard H. Lesko, David SilvermanISBN 0801497868 (0-8014-9786-8)
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The Riddle of Amish Cultureby Donald B. KraybillISBN 080186772X (0-8018-6772-X)
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The Amish are one of America's most intriguing and puzzling communities. To the outsider, their habits and customs abound with contradictions. But the most intriguing puzzle of all is the secret of their survival in the twentieth century. How have these "plain folk" not only kept the modern world at bay but actually grown from a meager band of 5,000 in 1900 to over 100,000 today?
Donald Kraybill has lived and worked among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home of America's oldest Amish community. Talking with the Amish on their farms, in their shops, and around their kitchen tables, he has learned how they have "struck a bargain" with modern times--a bargain that explains why many of the rules that seem quaint or silly actually have been essential to keeping Amish culture alive.
In The Riddle of Amish Culture Kraybill finds the Amish men and women eager to answer our questions. But they also have questions for us. Why, they ask, do we shut our aging parents out of our houses--and put them in institutions we call "homes?" Why do we move away from the towns and families we love in pursuit of jobs we hate? And why do we need weapons so powerful they could one day destroy us all--Amish and "English" alike?
The Riddle of Amish Culture draws us into conversation across a cultural fence with a people as remote as the seventeenth century and as close to home as that blacktop road off the next Interstate exit. And what we learn about our Amish neighbors tells us much about ourselves.
"Some have wall-to-wall carpeting, insulated wooly stuff all around the top, a big dashboard, glove compartment, speedometer, clock, stereo radio, buttons galore, and lights and reflectors all over the place... If they have the money, that's what they do, and that's pride."--an Amish leader, on the "hot- rod" carriages of some Amish teenagers
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Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mindby Roy Harvey PearceISBN 080186996X (0-8018-6996-X)
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The Scapegoatby Rene Girard, Yvonne FrecceroISBN 0801839173 (0-8018-3917-3)
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.by Catherine Millet, Adriana HunterISBN 0802117163 (0-8021-1716-3)
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Shadow of the Hunter: Stories of Eskimo Lifeby Richard K. NelsonISBN 0802023886 (0-8020-2388-6)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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A Theory of Shoppingby Daniel MillerISBN 0801485517 (0-8014-8551-7)
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To the Lighthouseby Susan DickISBN 0802055249 (0-8020-5524-9)
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802138004 (0-8021-3800-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Townby Anne MeneleyISBN 0802078680 (0-8020-7868-0)
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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticismby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801827418 (0-8018-2741-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism'Book summary:"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism. [via]
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The Two-headed Boy, And Other Medical Marvelsby Jan BondesonISBN 080148958X (0-8014-8958-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-headed Boy, And Other Medical Marvels'Book summary:Please don't stare. Dr Jan Bondeson, author of The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels, aims to humanise his subjects and move beyond the standard exploitation of people with extremely visible medical anomalies. Though one might say that he benefits from our undeniable fascination with the extraordinarily different, he writes brief but thorough biographies that show real, three-dimensional people underneath the hair and horns. His medical understanding rivals his historical acuity and the reader will find the interwoven threads of science and culture breathtaking.
Perhaps most intriguing is Bondeson's analysis of eccentric tales with little or no physical documentary evidence, such as the egg-laying Scotsman or the Irish gentle-lady who was said to have given birth to 365 babies at once. He finds many convincing after stripping them of contemporary superstition and embellishment; motivating greater interest in seeking out non-medical anomalies for deeper research. Fans of good old-fashioned freak shows will enjoy the profuse, often charming illustrations and the final chapter on men and women reputed to eat such delicacies as stones and live animals long before Ozzy Osborne made headlines. The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels will surprise those looking strictly for cheap thrills, though the subjects are too human to treat lightly. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialismby Caroline HumphreyISBN 0801487730 (0-8014-8773-0)
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The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Sensesby David HowesISBN 0802068448 (0-8020-6844-8)
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Watermenby Randall S. PefferISBN 080182737X (0-8018-2737-X)
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West Africa's Council of the Ententeby Virginia McLean ThompsonISBN 0801491274 (0-8014-9127-4)
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Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Presentby Philippe AriesISBN 0801817625 (0-8018-1762-5)
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When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haitiby Jennie Marcelle SmithISBN 0801486734 (0-8014-8673-4)
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Women in Old Norse Societyby Jenny JochensISBN 0801485207 (0-8014-8520-7)
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Worked over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Communityby Dimitra DoukasISBN 0801488613 (0-8014-8861-3)
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The World of the Ancient Mayaby John S. HendersonISBN 0801482844 (0-8014-8284-4)
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'You're So Fat!': Exploring Ojibwe Discourseby Roger SpielmannISBN 080207958X (0-8020-7958-X)
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