Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation of Ku Village...  Read More >>

When Italian immigrants landed on American shores they were outsiders but over time this community moved from being...  Read More >>

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What does it mean to be white? This text brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines...  Read More >>

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What does it mean to be white? This text brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines...  Read More >>

Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within...  Read More >>

Professor Smith uses the tools of anthropology to examine the ancient Egyptian construction of ethnic identities...  Read More >>

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Presents a study of globalization and consumerism through an ethnography of Bombay's leading advertising agency....  Read More >>

The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities,...  Read More >>

From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes...  Read More >>

""God in Chinatown"" is a study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s,...  Read More >>

This work uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. It begins by using the tools of anthropology,...  Read More >>

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This ethnographical study analyses the organizational and political pressures that combined to make three magnet...  Read More >>

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a racial consciousness. This title...  Read More >>

A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express...  Read More >>

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Telling the story of the period known in India as the Emergency, this ethnographic work seeks to recapture through...  Read More >>

A history and ethnography of the craftworkers and hunters who are vigorously excluded from mainstream society in...  Read More >>

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Children will read about how running moves a body through space. A person can run in a straight line, on a curved...  Read More >>

There are many ways to jump, and students will enjoy reading about them all and then trying to invent some new ones....  Read More >>

Horses can gallop, but do your students realize that they can gallop too? Not only will children learn about this...  Read More >>