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The Ecology of Pastoralism by P. Nick Kardulias 9781607323426
RRP: $95.46$95.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323426Author P. Nick KarduliasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 555g -
Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century by Justyna Olko 9781607322405
RRP: $113.52$113.33This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the... -
Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca by Arthur A. Joyce 9781607322023
RRP: $107.07$106.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607322023Author Arthur A. JoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 655g -
Agency in Ancient Writing by Joshua Englehardt 9781607321996
RRP: $107.07$105.47Individual agents are frequently evident in early writing and notational systems, yet these systems have rarely been subjected to the concept of agency as it is traceable in archeology. Agency in Ancient Writing addresses this oversight, allowing... -
Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology by Neil L. Whitehead 9781607321897
$38.33Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional... -
Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska by Elizabeth Marino 9781602232662
$35.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232662Author Elizabeth MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000 by Ernest S. Burch Jr. 9781602231795
$43.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602231795Author Ernest S. Burch Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 482g -
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname by Stuart Earle Strange 9781487540265
$27.95Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals ritual revelation generates self-knowledge in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for... -
Russia: Anthropological Insights by Petra Rethmann 9781442636576
RRP: $27.08$24.54This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of Russia. Moving beyond the conceptual iron curtain that has divided past study of Russia into "East" and "West," it situates Russia in a global context and provides readers with all of... -
Elite Craft Producers, Artists, and Warriors at Aguateca: Lithic Analysis by Kazuo Aoyama 9780874809596
RRP: $51.60$49.88This archaeological report centers on findings at Aguateca, a unique site in the Petexbatun region of the southern Mayan lowlands that was unexpectedly attacked in AD 810, using the excavation data from twelve structures and various use areas to... -
Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Peter Peregrine 9780874809428
RRP: $45.15$42.34The study of human migration is integral to the understanding of essential features of human experience. Many ancient civilizations were created and modified through migrations, and migrations of later periods gave rise to the modern ethnic map of the... -
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique by Nuno Domingos 9780821422618
RRP: $103.20$101.37In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own... -
Ethnographers in the Field: The Psychology of Research by John L. Wengle 9780817351762
RRP: $45.09$41.56Wengle documents what fieldworking ethnographers undergo; what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record. The anonymity of Wengle's informants let them speak bluntly about their experiences...... -
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility by Monica J. Casper 9780814716779
$115.95We know more about the physical body-how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes-than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In... -
Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom by Iris Lopez 9780813543734
RRP: $49.02$44.29In ""Matters of Choice"", Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating,... -
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia by Winifred Tate 9780804792011
RRP: $154.80$142.44In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the... -
After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia by Jessica Greenberg 9780804789004
RRP: $141.90$130.47What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities... -
Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp by Maya Rosenfeld 9780804749879
RRP: $43.86$42.18Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation. It is based on extended field research carried out by...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: $43.86$42.18Subtotal: -
Community Under Stress by Elizabeth Head Vaughan 9780691653501
RRP: $117.39$108.15Based on the day-to-day record of an American sociologist imprisoned for three years in a Japanese concentration camp in the seaport town of Bacolod, Negros Island, Philippines, this book deals with the relations between people in a situation of stress... -
Studies in Population by George F. Mair 9780691653464
RRP: $117.39$109.04A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Population Association of America. The contributors are: S.L. Wolfbein, P.H. Jacobson, C. Tietze, I. Taeuber, J... -
Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain by William A. Christian 9780691630144
RRP: $130.29$120.31Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian investi gates the settings and responses to a series of group visions reported by Spaniards in rural Galicia, Valencia, Cantabria, and Navarre in the... -
Population Growth and Economic Development by Ansley Johnson Coale 9780691626390
RRP: $83.85$78.64The main contribution of this book lies in its focus on real alternatives in future population growth. At some time-taken as 1956 in India for this case study-a low-income country may have the option of effectively promoting the reduction of fertility,... -
Workers, Factories and Social Changes in India by Richard D. Lambert 9780691625201
RRP: $60.63$57.16The author analyzes data on workers in five privately-owned factories in Poona, India. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the... -
Gaon: Conflict and Cohesion in an Indian Village by Henry Orenstein 9780691624471
RRP: $73.53$68.37This study opposes the prevailing view that Indian villages have little social solidarity and points out the relationship between village solidarity and the potentially centrifugal factors of caste, conflict, and power. Originally published in 1965. ... -
The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: (Published in cloth as Santa Maria del Monte) by Ruth Behar 9780691608891
RRP: $107.07$101.86This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the... -
Malinowski and the Work of Myth by Ivan Strenski 9780691601557
RRP: $47.73$45.49Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as... -
Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain by William A. Christian 9780691600178
RRP: $52.89$50.14Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian investi gates the settings and responses to a series of group visions reported by Spaniards in rural Galicia, Valencia, Cantabria, and Navarre in the... -
Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium by Veena Das 9780520278417
$148.00Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the... -
Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands by Aletta Biersack 9780472106011
RRP: $128.94$127.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472106011Author Aletta BiersackFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja by Douglas W. Hollan 9780231084239
RRP: $51.60$51.21Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology. Hollan and Wellenkamp... -
Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account by William Jankowiak 9780231079617
$54.93The first contemporary enthnographic account of urban life in China, Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City studies both public and private life, including such aspects as religious belief, gender images, family life, and sexual attraction.About the... -
The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology by N. El-Haj 9780226201405
RRP: $127.71$125.41"The Genealogical Science" analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary... -
Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture by Susan McKinnon 9780226500232
RRP: $127.71$124.74Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality - not to mention the... -
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood by Ida Susser 9780195367317
$50.22Norman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in... -
The Monologic Imagination by Matt Tomlinson 9780190652807
$125.94The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our... -
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War by Christine A Kray 9781646424627
RRP: $122.55$119.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424627Author Christine A KrayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado -
Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community by C. James MacKenzie 9781607325567
$46.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607325567Author C. James MacKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University at Albany, Institute for Mesoamerican StudiesPublisher University at... -
Basic K'ichee' Grammar: 38 Lessons by James L. Mondloch 9781607323891
RRP: $92.88$91.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323891Author James L. MondlochFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 485g -
The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community by Dean E. Arnold 9781607323136
RRP: $95.46$94.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323136Author Dean E. ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 621g -
Rasa: Performing the Divine in India by Susan L. Schwartz 9780231131445
RRP: $129.00$124.81While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian...