Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations

Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and...
Author: Athena Leoussi (Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Relations, University of Reading) , Steven Grosby (Professor of Religion, Clemson University, USA) ISBN: 9780748621125 Format: Hardback	$288.00
Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on... Read More >>

New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free...
Author: Rosanne Marion Adderley ISBN: 9780253218278 Format: Paperback	$39.95
A study of ""receptive"" communities in the West Indies, which focuses on two groups - English-speaking colonists,... Read More >>

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern...
Author: Jake Kosek ISBN: 9780822338475 Format: Paperback	$45.95
A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the... Read More >>

Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader

Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben , Jeffrey A. Sluka ISBN: 9781405125932 Format: Hardback	$321.95
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Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern...
Author: Jake Kosek ISBN: 9780822338321 Format: Hardback	$170.95
A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the... Read More >>

Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality

Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality
Author: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith , Claudine Michel ISBN: 9780253218537 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Haitian scholars and practitioners examine the intersections of Vodou and Haitian society Read More >>

Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth and Reality

Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth and Reality
Author: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith , Claudine Michel ISBN: 9780253347565 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Presents European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in... Read More >>

Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond

Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston,...
Author: Hilary E. Kahn ISBN: 9780292714557 Format: Paperback	$41.95
Explores the dynamic Mayan customs of the Q'eqchi' people living in the cultural crossroads of Livingston, Guatemala.... Read More >>

Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict...
Author: Simon Harrison ISBN: 9781845450977 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Western societies draw on concepts of the ""individual"" in constructing their images of the ethnic group and define... Read More >>

Catalunya, One Nation, Two States: An Ethnographical Study of Nonviolent Resistence to Assimilation

Catalunya, One Nation, Two States: An Ethnographical...
Author: Alexander Alland ISBN: 9781403974396 Format: Hardback	$250.80
Deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation. This book shows how the major feature of this resistance... Read More >>

Animal Heads and Necks

Animal Heads and Necks
Author: Jonatha A Brown ISBN: 9780836868661 Format: Paperback	$15.71
Why Animals Look Different examines the distinctive features of a variety of animals and explains how these features... Read More >>

Animal Skin and Fur

Animal Skin and Fur
Author: Jonatha A Brown , Susan Nations ISBN: 9780836868678 Format: Paperback	$21.52
Why does a duck have webbed feet? Why does a polar bear have thick fur? Why Animals Look Different examines the... Read More >>

Animal Tails

Animal Tails
Author: Jonatha A Brown , Susan Nations ISBN: 9780836868685 Format: Paperback	$15.71
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Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically...
Author: Amiria Henare , Martin Holbraad (University College London, UK) ISBN: 9781844720712 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History

American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S....
Author: Donna R. Gabaccia , Vicki L. Ruiz ISBN: 9780252030642 Format: Hardback	$206.00
Explores the ways in which immigrant lives are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal... Read More >>

Men: Evolutionary and Life History

Men: Evolutionary and Life History
Author: Richard G. Bribiescas ISBN: 9780674022935 Format: Hardback	$76.43
Presents a different approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory.... Read More >>

Signal Processing for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to the Analysis of Physiological Signals

Signal Processing for Neuroscientists: An Introduction...
Author: Wim Van Drongelen ISBN: 9781493300891 Format: Paperback	$290.40
Signal Processing for Neuroscientists introduces analysis techniques primarily aimed at neuroscientists and biomedical... Read More >>

Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation

Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility...
Author: Lisa Taraki ISBN: 9780815631071 Format: Hardback	$91.30
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Race, Law and Society

Race, Law and Society
Author: Ian Haney López , Professor Austin D. Sarat ISBN: 9780754626619 Format: Hardback	$588.00
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What's Wrong with My Mouse

What's Wrong with My Mouse
Author: Jacqueline N Crawley (National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, USA) ISBN: 9781280822353 Format: Electronic book text	$343.07
Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley, author of the First and Second Editions of What's Wrong with My Mouse? Behavioral Phenotyping... Read More >>

Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Mnemosyne: Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Volume 287.

Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek...
Author: N L Lazaridis ISBN: 9781281936080 Format: Electronic book text	$456.72
This book examines Ancient Egyptian and Greek proverbs, as they are found in wisdom collections, circulating in... Read More >>

Intracellular Mechanisms for Neuritogenesis

Intracellular Mechanisms for Neuritogenesis
Author: Ivan De Curtis ISBN: 9781280816581 Format: Undefined	$578.16
A major issue of modern neurobiology is to understand how neurons extend their neurites to form a functional network.... Read More >>

Bio-Inspired Modeling of Cognitive Tasks: Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Iwinac 2007 La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, June 18-21, 2007 Proceedings, Part I

Bio-Inspired Modeling of Cognitive Tasks: Second International...
Author: Jos Mira ISBN: 9781280943942 Format: Undefined	$287.76
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Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town

Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in...
Author: Leela Prasad ISBN: 9780231139212 Format: Paperback	$52.95
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Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance

Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance...
Author: Alicia Arrizon ISBN: 9780472069552 Format: Paperback	$92.40
Rethinking mestizaje and how it functions as an epistemology of colonialism in diverse sites from Aztlán to Manila,... Read More >>

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