Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Focusing on Russian migration into Western Europe following the break-up of the Soviet Union, this book explores...  Read More >>

Theorizes race and nation in the cultural aftermath of the LA riots  Read More >>

Examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha...  Read More >>

Theorizes race and nation in the cultural aftermath of the LA riots  Read More >>

Provides a picture of the cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders...  Read More >>

Provides a picture of the cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders...  Read More >>

The author of ""The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order"" turns his attention to the cultural...  Read More >>

Asking the question - are people with dark skin truly different - the essays here consider the history, science,...  Read More >>

This volume reviews major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution with an emphasis on systematic paleoenvironmental...  Read More >>

An essential text for courses in ethnography, research methods (qualitative emphasis), applied sociology, and related...  Read More >>

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Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely...  Read More >>

Provides a vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term """"Woodland."""" This volume represents...  Read More >>

Challenges the notion that the introduction of market capitalism leads to the destruction of native cultural values....  Read More >>

Based on a total of 18 months of fieldwork in Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi province), this is the first book-length...  Read More >>

By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic...  Read More >>

Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, persuaded the Federal Government to free the three Yolugu men convicted of the...  Read More >>

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What counts as ethnography and what counts as good ethnography are both highly contested. This volume presents a...  Read More >>

A classic study of Zapotec women weavers and their reactions to global capitalism  Read More >>

The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in the wake of its collapse, the politics...  Read More >>

The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in the wake of its collapse, the politics...  Read More >>

A classic study of Zapotec women weavers and their reactions to global capitalism  Read More >>

Provides the tools for the robot's rebellion, a program of cognitive reform necessary to advance human interests...  Read More >>

Examines the social origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the different forms of English-Canadian and Quebec nationalism,...  Read More >>