Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Thresholds of Western Culture: Identity, Postcoloniality, Transnationalism

Thresholds of Western Culture: Identity, Postcoloniality,...

Author: John Burt Foster, Jr. ,  Wayne Jeffrey Froman
ISBN: 9780826460011
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Exploring three closely related topics that contest received attitudes about cultural identity, this book opens...  Read More >>

Castes and Race: Comparative Study

Castes and Race: Comparative Study

Author: Mohanadasa Naimisaraya
ISBN: 9788170337874
Format: Hardback
$66.00

The caste discrimination in Indian society is generally portrayed by western scholars as if it is the unique feature...  Read More >>

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship...

Author: J. Douglas Smith
ISBN: 9780807854242
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism...  Read More >>

Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany

Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums...

Author: H. Glenn Penny
ISBN: 9780807854303
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A study which explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists...  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches

Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches...

Author: John Stone (Boston University, USA) ,  Rutledge M. Dennis (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9780631186342
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Collects together 27 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on race and ethnicity .The contributors...  Read More >>

Open Mike

Open Mike

Author: Michael Dyson
ISBN: 9780465017652
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Essays and interviews from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since...  Read More >>

Constitutional Safeguards for Scheduled Castes and Sheduled Tribes

Constitutional Safeguards for Scheduled Castes and Sheduled...

Author: B.N. Goswami
ISBN: 9788170337638
Format: Hardback
$84.48

For centuries past, Shudras, now termed as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, have suffered immense humiliation...  Read More >>

The Chinese Dilemma

The Chinese Dilemma

Author: Lin Sheng Ye ,  Lynn Pan
ISBN: 9780975164600
Format: Hardback
$38.95

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The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990

The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A...

Author: Oscar Salemink
ISBN: 9780700715701
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

Author: George Borrow
ISBN: 9781410203038
Format: Paperback
$85.80

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Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community

Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation...

Author: Tressa Berman
ISBN: 9780791455364
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Studies how women in a reservation economy have creatively responded to federal policy.  Read More >>

Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community

Circle of Goods: Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation...

Author: Tressa Berman
ISBN: 9780791455357
Format: Hardback
$172.92

Studies how women in a reservation economy have creatively responded to federal policy.  Read More >>

Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany

Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums...

Author: H. Glenn Penny
ISBN: 9780807827543
Format: Hardback
$221.76

A study which explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists...  Read More >>

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia

Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship...

Author: J. Douglas Smith
ISBN: 9780807827567
Format: Hardback
$195.23

Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism...  Read More >>

Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America

Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese presence...

Author: Harumi Befu ,  Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
ISBN: 9780415285667
Format: Paperback
$105.00

""Globalizing Japan"" explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. It observes that Japan's...  Read More >>

Seeds of Revolution: The Culture and Politics of the Great Famine in the Irish Northwest

Seeds of Revolution: The Culture and Politics of the...

Author: Joan Vincent
ISBN: 9780312239961
Format: Hardback
$88.00

Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh....  Read More >>

Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples

Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples...

Author: Margaret Mead ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780765809353
Format: Paperback
$134.52

These essays present a model for future ethnological survey texts which aims to further the understanding of cultural...  Read More >>

Rifles, Blankets, & Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch

Rifles, Blankets, & Beads: Identity, History, and the...

Author: William E. Simeone
ISBN: 9780806135083
Format: Paperback
$45.10

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Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan

Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan...

Author: George Kennan ,  Frith Maier
ISBN: 9780295982502
Format: Hardback
$126.95

A fascinating collection of the travel writings of George Kennan, America's leading expert on Russia in the late...  Read More >>

Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique

Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique

Author: George Noblit ,  Susana Y. Flores
ISBN: 9781572734760
Format: Paperback
$73.70

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Tibetans in Nepal: The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile

Tibetans in Nepal: The Dynamics of International Assistance...

Author: Ann Frechette
ISBN: 9781571811578
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities, this text explores...  Read More >>

Abjection and Its Correction in Ethnographic Studies: Communication Issues in the Cultural Tourism of Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Abjection and Its Correction in Ethnographic Studies:...

Author: Jill Adair McCaughan
ISBN: 9781572733619
Format: Paperback
$48.40

This work explores the problematic nature of ethnographic research in regard to power differentials experienced...  Read More >>

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