Physical anthropology & ethnography books

An ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern...  Read More >>

Deals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century....  Read More >>

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This volume presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From...  Read More >>

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This collection brings together historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean...  Read More >>

In the mid-1990s new treatment options introduced a new era of AIDS. This book is a sophisticated study of the shaping...  Read More >>

This dual-site ethnography follows the celebration of Carnival from Trinidad to North America, where immigrant Trinidadian-Americans...  Read More >>

Part of a series, this work provides detailed accounts of important segments of American society. One hundred essays...  Read More >>

126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on...  Read More >>

Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements demonstrates the imperative need for ethnoarchaeology to include a deep...  Read More >>

This edition provides an analysis of race relations and forms of racism in British society today. The book begins...  Read More >>

Draws out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing - in the mix and...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection respond to a shift in thinking about social interaction from theories based on symbolic...  Read More >>

A Japanese conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that...  Read More >>

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In The Weight of the Past, Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables...  Read More >>

The theories presented in these nine volumes had a substantial impact on Darwinism and vice versa; both deal with...  Read More >>

Until now there has been no detailed study of the settlement and subsistence patterns of the Gawara Aboriginal people...  Read More >>

This book analyses the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (c. 2500-1700...  Read More >>

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular...  Read More >>

This book analyses the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (c. 2500-1700...  Read More >>

This ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp's extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan....  Read More >>

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