Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American...

Author: Gregory Smoak
ISBN: 9780520246584
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost...  Read More >>

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of...

Author: Christian Zlolniski
ISBN: 9780520246430
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Aims to expose the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the...  Read More >>

Being Goral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland

Being Goral: Identity Politics and Globalization in...

Author: Deborah Cahalen Schneider
ISBN: 9780791466551
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Examines the Goral, a little studied ethnic group in Poland.  Read More >>

Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home

Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home

Author: Vijay Agnew
ISBN: 9780802090331
Format: Hardback
$200.64

Diaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development...  Read More >>

Ethnicity and Class: Social Divisions in an Indian City

Ethnicity and Class: Social Divisions in an Indian City...

Author: Gopa Sabharwal
ISBN: 9780195678307
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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German Migrants in Post-War Britain: An Enemy Embrace

German Migrants in Post-War Britain: An Enemy Embrace...

Author: Inge Weber-Newth ,  Johannes-Dieter Steinert
ISBN: 9780714656571
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Both timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique...  Read More >>

Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea

Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New...

Author: Susanne Kuhling
ISBN: 9780824827311
Format: Hardback
$121.44

Countering the reputation of Dobu Island as a place of sorcerers, Kueling (anthropology, Heidelberg U.) describes...  Read More >>

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua...

Author: Elizabeth Dore
ISBN: 9780822336747
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that...  Read More >>

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel

Author: Jeffrey Ruoff
ISBN: 9780822337133
Format: Paperback
$43.95

A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema  Read More >>

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua...

Author: Elizabeth Dore
ISBN: 9780822336860
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Provides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that...  Read More >>

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel

Author: Jeffrey Ruoff
ISBN: 9780822337010
Format: Hardback
$161.95

A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema  Read More >>

Chilchos Valley Revisited: Life Conditions in the Ceja de Selva, Peru

Chilchos Valley Revisited: Life Conditions in the Ceja...

Author: Inge Schjellerup ,  Victor Quipuscoa
ISBN: 9788776020514
Format: Paperback
$56.10

A work on Chilchos Valley in the northeastern slopes of the Andes in Peru that attempts to understand how human...  Read More >>

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual...

Author: M. Jacqui Alexander
ISBN: 9780822336075
Format: Hardback
$176.95

A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding...  Read More >>

Indigeneity In India

Indigeneity In India

Author: Bengt T. Karlsson ,  T.B. Subba
ISBN: 9780710312105
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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An Duchas Agus an Domhan

An Duchas Agus an Domhan

Author: Diarmuid O' Giollan
ISBN: 9781859183892
Format: Hardback
$102.96

Gives an introduction to the study of Irish traditional society and of Irish folklore  Read More >>

Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99

Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and...

Author: Carol Lynn McKibben
ISBN: 9780252073007
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to...  Read More >>

The Incredible Shrinking Bee: Insects as Models for Microelectromechanical Devices

The Incredible Shrinking Bee: Insects as Models for...

Author: James V Lawry
ISBN: 9786611867171
Format: Electronic book text
$660.00

Because vertebrate circulations do not work when shrunk to insect sizes, insects may help us design our smallest...  Read More >>

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: ITALIAN MIGRANTS in URBAN AMERICA

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: ITALIAN MIGRANTS...

Author: Diane C. Vecchio
ISBN: 9780252030390
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Using Italian and American sources, this book reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often...  Read More >>

Strength of the Earth: The Classic Guide to Ojibwe Uses of Native Plants

Strength of the Earth: The Classic Guide to Ojibwe Uses...

Author: Frances Densmore ,  Brenda J. Child
ISBN: 9780873515627
Format: Paperback
$39.47

From techniques for tapping maple trees and harvesting wild rice to extracting dyes from bloodroot and making dishes...  Read More >>

Indigenous People and the Pilbara Mining Boom: A baseline for regional participation

Indigenous People and the Pilbara Mining Boom: A baseline...

Author: John Taylor ,  B. Scambary
ISBN: 9781920942403
Format: Paperback
$68.01

The largest escalation of mining activity in Australian history is currently underway in the Pilbara region of Western...  Read More >>

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