Anthropology

'the Politics Of Food' Raises Provocative Questions About How We Relate To Food In The 21st Century. Through Ethnographic Case Studies It Reveals How Food H...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

In 1949, Florida's Orange Industry Was Booming With Cheap Jim Crow Labor. When A White Seventeen-year-old Groveland Girl Cried Rape, Vicious Sheriff Mccall ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

"This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in paleoanthropology courses, tackles a rather difficult task—that of presenting the s...

commercial Breaks, Radio Spots, Product Placements, Billboards, Pop-up Ads—we Sometimes Take For Granted How Much Advertising Surrounds Us In Our Daily Li...

Riane Eisler Shows Us How History Has Consistently Promoted The Link Between Sex And Violence—and How We Can Sever This Link And Move To A Politics Of Par...

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here,...

About the Author\Harold R. Johnson (1954–2022) was the author of six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction, including Firewater: How Alcohol is Kil...

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In ...

Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as...

From dust jacket flap: This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

Asking And Listening Is The First Book To Trace The Changing Ways In Which Human Beings Have Learned To Look At The Others Beyond The Gate With Their Strang...

National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist “nothing Less Than A Tour De Force—a Heady Amalgam Of Science, History, A Little Bit Of An...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts...

“Rutherford describes Humanimal as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of crea...

A Seasoned War Correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman Has Covered Every Major Conflict Over The Past Twenty Years, From Afghanistan To Iraq To The Congo. For The ...

Review\"This new edition of Through the Lens of Anthropology builds on a successful approach that brings accessible anthropology to a wide range of learners...

UNDERSTANDING HUMANS: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY shows students how anthropologists and archaeologists go about their work as the...

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community Is The First Systematic Study Of Coloured Identity, Its History,...

Long Before Hygge, Lagom, Or Ikigai Took The World By Storm, There Was La Dolce Vita-the Italian Phrase For The Sweet Life. La Dolce Vita Encourages The Ben...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

drawing On Experience Gleaned From Many Years Of Traveling, Studying, And Teaching In Italy, Killinger (history, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Flori...

This Concise Guide Offers Not Only The Practical 'how-to' For Doing Business In The People's Republic But Also The Valuable 'why' For Understanding Chinese ...

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks fro...

Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields...

Our Ancestors Crossed Deserts, Mountains, And Oceans-- Feats Of Endurance That Now Seem Impossible Without Modern Technology. Can We Hack Our Bodies And Use...

In This Classic Work Mary Douglas Identifies The Concern For Pirity As A Key Theme At The Heart Of Every Society. She Reveals Its Wide-ranging Impact On Our...

This Book Is Not Only An Analysis Of Demographic And Political Realities In Europe, But Also An Eyewitness Account Of A Continent In Self-destruct Mode. It ...

Here, Richard Florida Traces The Fundamental Theme That Runs Through A Host Of Seemingly Unrelated Changes In American Society: The Growing Role Of Creativi...

Beginning in the 1970s, Canada abandoned its historical foundations and fell under the spell of socialism. This is the best-selling classic that galvanized ...

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the...

What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myt...

Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole w...

Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle. ...

This work is totally original; indeed, it pioneers a new field. . . . A remarkable account of a dimension of war that is much neglected. . . . It is deeply...

collected Here, The Massey Lectures From Legendary Novelist Margaret Atwood Investigate The Highly Topical Subject Of Debt. She Doesn’t Talk About High Fi...

400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urb...

When A Government Program Brought Garment Factories To Rural Sri Lanka, Women Workers Found Themselves Caught Between The Pressures Of A Globalizing Economy...

No Longer The Exclusive Province Of The Far Right And Far Left, Anti-semitism Finds A Home In Identity Politics And The Reaction Against Identity Politics, ...

Embraced with zeal by a wide array of activists and policymakers, the restorative justice movement has made promises to reduce the disproportionate rates ...

How could an urban American Indian tribe, having survived relentless earlier governmental attempts to declare its culture extinct, be once again on the verg...

An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed wi...

Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural pe...

Introduction, Storytelling As Social Conscience: The Power Of Autobiography / Becky Thompson And Sangeeta Tyagi -- Word Problems / Kate Rushin -- Part I. Bl...

The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians and gays coming out; from Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas to the tr...

The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers an...