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Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia by Donald Donham 9780231100472
RRP: $51.60$51.16This study challenges the assumption that households in non-capitalist economies are "self-contained labour units" which are not inherently brought into relationship by the production process. Concentrating on the organization of agricultural production... -
Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People by Irving Goldman 9780231130219
$56.15The societies of the Vaupes region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict. Here at last is the eagerly awaited... -
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa by Rijk van Dijk 9780821413036
RRP: $103.20$101.37This study has arisen out of a fascination with the vibrant nature of African societies, their vitality, and particularly the way in which they seem to be able time and again to overcome tribulation and turmoil. In the southern African region, ngoma, an... -
The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value by Michael Lambek 9780226292106
RRP: $103.20$98.83Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions,... -
Gypsy World: The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead by Patrick Williams 9780226899299
RRP: $30.96$29.71For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manus, not only do not speak of their dead, they... -
Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World by Edward J. Hedican 9781442635890
$107.86Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process,... -
Alcohol in Ancient Mexico by Henry Bruman 9780874808605
RRP: $32.25$29.54Alcohol in Ancient Mexico reconstructs the variety and extent of distillation traditions in the ancient cultures of Mexico, describing in detail the various plants and processes used to make such beverages, their prevalence, and their significance for... -
Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas by Gary Seaman 9780870813429
$46.48Shamanism is the worlds oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central... -
Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago by Catherine Fennell 9780816697366
RRP: $121.91$118.89In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller,... -
Meeting Once More: The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption by Elise M. Prebin 9780814760260
$70.78A great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their birth parents-sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes... -
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights by Mark Goodale 9780804762120
RRP: $129.00$118.72Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this... -
Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 by David Nugent 9780804729581
RRP: $49.02$39.69Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states-how they form, what sustains them, why they fail-this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state "from below." By... -
Old Man's Playing Ground: Gaming and Trade on the Plains/Plateau Frontier by Gabriel M. Yanicki 9780776621388
RRP: $83.79$63.73When Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler made contact with the Ktunaxa at the Gap of the Oldman River in the winter of 1792, his Piikani guides brought him to the river's namesake. These were the playing grounds where Napi, or Old Man, taught the... -
Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment by Paul Rabinow 9780691115665
RRP: $41.28$37.58The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous... -
Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture by Charles Stewart 9780691028484
RRP: $54.18$52.21In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a... -
Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland by Mary M. Steedly 9780691655321
RRP: $81.27$75.89When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of... -
Near Eastern Culture and Society by Theodore Cuyler Young 9780691654775
RRP: $154.80$141.68Eleven scholars present a broad survey of Arabic-Islamic culture and society in the Near East. Art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, politics, international relations, and social problems are considered. Originally published in 1966. The... -
Malinowski and the Work of Myth by Ivan Strenski 9780691631219
RRP: $117.39$108.88Bronislaw 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... -
Studies in Population by George F. Mair 9780691627472
RRP: $47.73$45.49A 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... -
Caste in a Peasant Society by Melvin Marvin Tumin 9780691627274
RRP: $64.44$60.84An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles from Guatemala City in Central America. "Much of the fascination of the book derives from the intrinsic... -
Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism by Daniel H. Levine 9780691608679
RRP: $96.75$91.69Throughout Latin America, observers and activists have found in religion a promise of deep and long-lasting democratization. But for religion to change culture and politics, religion itself must change. Such change is not only a matter of doctrine,... -
Near Eastern Culture and Society by Theodore Cuyler Young 9780691623825
RRP: $64.44$59.96Eleven scholars present a broad survey of Arabic-Islamic culture and society in the Near East. Art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, politics, international relations, and social problems are considered. Originally published in 1966. The... -
Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text by Marc Manganaro 9780691604428
RRP: $79.98$74.74Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "science" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and... -
Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico: The Gastrointestinal Diseases by Elois Ann Berlin 9780691602714
RRP: $134.16$126.15Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking... -
Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium by Kenelm Burridge 9780691602196
RRP: $77.40$72.56Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in... -
Keeping House in Lusaka by Karen Tranberg Hansen 9780231081436
$48.04This book pens a window on the experiences of urban people living through one of Africa's most dramatic economic declines in the postcolonial era by focusing on such broad themes as household dynamics, gender politics, and informal economy in Mtendere... -
The Secret of the Totem: Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud by Robert Alun Jones 9780231134385
RRP: $109.65$109.22Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and... -
Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming by Eric Ramirez-Ferrero 9780231130257
$41.99In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men-but not women-to... -
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals by Didier Boremanse 9781607817321
RRP: $83.85$76.29The Lacandon Maya are a small-scale forest society currently on the brink of extinction. Small groups of Northern Lacandon escaped evangelization by dispersing into the jungle, moving from the Guatemalan Peten to Chiapas in southern Mexico during the... -
Early Hominin Paleoecology by Matt Sponhiemer 9781607322245
RRP: $100.62$100.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607322245Author Matt SponhiemerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 790g -
Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices by Gabrielle Vail 9781607322207
RRP: $119.97$119.52Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both... -
The Anthropology of Labor Unions by E. Paul Durrenberger 9781607321842
$23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607321842Author E. Paul DurrenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams)... -
Anthropology Matters by Shirley A. Fedorak 9781487593209
RRP: $47.73$43.69The third edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connecting important concepts to current global issues. A question-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader... -
Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World by Edward J. Hedican 9781442635883
RRP: $50.31$45.42Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process,... -
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands by Sahana Ghosh 9780520395725
RRP: $103.20$92.38A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the... -
Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide by Ryan R. Thoreson 9780816692712
RRP: $96.75$95.56The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human... -
Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming by Eric Ramirez-Ferrero 9780231130240
RRP: $135.45$131.33In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men-but not women-to... -
The Americas That Might Have Been: Native American Social Systems Through Time by Julian Granberry 9780817351823
RRP: $38.64$36.39This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today - politically, economically, culturally - if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies? It... -
Aleut Identities: Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery: Volume 61 by Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner 9780773537484
RRP: $42.51$40.21The first Aleut ethnography in over three decades, Aleut Identities provides a contemporary view of indigenous Alaskans and is the first major work to emphasize the importance of commercial labour and economies to maintain traditional means of survival... -
Networks of Power: Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley by Edward Schortman 9781607320623
$30.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607320623Author Edward SchortmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 537g