Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Presents the field of molecular anthropology - a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive...  Read More >>

Explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals,...  Read More >>

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Benjamin Hawkins' journals provide detailed information about European-Indian relations in the 18th-century frontier...  Read More >>

* Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities...  Read More >>

To most people, translation means making the words of one language understandable in another. But translation in...  Read More >>

Does the term Latino—a construct of the U.S. government—successfully encompass the wide variety of Spanish-speaking...  Read More >>

Beautifully illustrated and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues, and collaborators as well...  Read More >>

* Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities...  Read More >>

A study of the way in which the Kelabit utilise raw materials from the rainforest to construct a socially ordered...  Read More >>

Kibria suggests further developments may resolve this situation-especially the emergence of a new kind of pan-Asian...  Read More >>

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An illustrated anthropological study of the Makuna people of the Amazon region.  Read More >>

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Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this title reveals...  Read More >>

A guide to race, a mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. It offers a philosophical introduction...  Read More >>

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This collection brings together ethnographic accounts of Russia from the period 1500 to 1700. All the volumes are...  Read More >>

The latest interdisciplinary research on the evolutionary models of cooperation.  Read More >>

The stability of everyday life for the Maasai of East Africa is edged with concern for secret malcontents who might...  Read More >>

Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this title reveals...  Read More >>

Operatic, ethnographic thriller tests the boundaries between art and scholarship.  Read More >>

Offers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers,...  Read More >>