Anthropology

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

Thrown Is Kerry Howley's Masterful Debut. A Work Of Rigorous Nonfiction That's Sure To Be Branded Experimental, But That's As Involving And Page-turning As ...

A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concept...

Overview: Most Of Us Take For Granted The Features Of Our Modern Society, From Air Travel And Telecommunications To Literacy And Obesity. Yet For Nearly All...

A Gritty, Thrilling Portrait Of America's Underground Traveling Community.Categories: TravelUnited States

based On Over A Decade Of Field Research, Righteous Dopefiend Is A Searing Portrait Of The Lives Of Homeless Injection Drug Users In San Francisco And An ...

Development : Theory And Reality -- Instituting The Development Project -- The Development Project : International Framework -- Globalizing Developments -- ...

CULTURE is the latest addition to the M-series. This thoroughly updated 2nd edition magazine style text for the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology cours...

Reding's Account Of The Ten Months [in 1995] He Spent In Middle Cisnes, Patagonia, Is A Riveting, Novelistic Exploration Of The Longing For Change By A Peop...

Takeyuki Tsuda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Sociology Race RelationsDiscrimination & Racism...

Robin Wiszowaty Relates How She Left Her Suburban Illinois Home To Travel To Kenya To Join An Impoverished Maasai Community, And Describes The Poverty, Drou...

As we are approaching our fin de sielce, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Musuems and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if t...

the New York Times Bestseller That’s Changing America’s Diet Is Now Perfect For Younger Readers “what’s For Dinner?” Seemed Like A Simple Questio...

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming ...

This is the book that accompanied the television series Millennium, also by Maybury-Lewis. He argues that tribal peoples have not tried (& failed) to be...

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. Th...

A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture—its ubiquity, meanings, and effects Watching the evening...

ORDER OF THE PHOENIX could well be my favorite book of them all, if Azkaban and Deathly Hallows weren't as good as they were. For all the talk about GOBLET ...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research...

Susan D. Blum. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarSemantics

Fatema Mernissi. New Introduction--cover. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious StudiesReligious G...

From The Publisher: This Extraordinary Best-seller Is A Brilliant Evocation Of The Noted Scholar's Teachings On Mythology. Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers O...

Product Description Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control,...

Ronald Wright. Previously Published Under Title: A Short History Of Progress. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: History WorldCiviliz...

How Do Computers And Robots Change The Meaning Of Being Human? How Do We Deal With The Epidemic Of Fake News? Are Nations And Religions Still Relevant? What...

Traces The Development Of Science And The Discoveries That Have Made Man Unique Among Animal Species. Lower Than The Angels -- The Harvest Of The Seasons --...

Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, ...

Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, Inequalities explores the relationship between people and the places they live in by analyzing cul...

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lan...

Hugh Brody first encountered hunting peoples when he lived among the Inuit of the High Arctic, who instructed him not only how to speak but how to do and b...

“This volume offers an innovative and intriguing collection of essays. Each chapter is grounded in detailed anthropological and historical research and of...

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leadin...

Introduction To International Development Integrates The Work Of Leading Experts From Disciplines As Varied As Geography, History, Sociology, Political Scie...

In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Mo...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword b...

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

In This Translation, Michel De Certeau Anticipates Current Debates Surrounding Multicultralism And Social Diversity, Providing A Prescient Critique Of Ident...

An Extraordinary Book That Explores How The Earth Itself Has Shaped The Western Imagination And How, As A Result, Our Interaction With The Environment Is Fa...

By Bronislaw Malinowski ; Preface By Sir James G. Fraser. Originally Published: London : Routledge ; New York : Dutton, 1922. Includes Index.Categories: Pol...

Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world...

Saya S. Shiraishi. Southeast Asia Program Publications. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [169]-183)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Anthrop...

John R. Stilgoe.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

An Oxford-trained evolutionary anthropologist explores the ever-elusive science of love.\What can the social and life sciences tell us about the most fundam...

A powerful political critique of postmodernism. Melancholic and introspective,ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. In this origin...

The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack from all ...

A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and chil...