Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Catawba Valley Mississippian: Ceramics, Chronology and Catawba Indians

Catawba Valley Mississippian: Ceramics, Chronology and...

Author: David G. Moore
ISBN: 9780817311636
Format: Paperback
$101.64

By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living throughout the valley that bears their name near the...  Read More >>

Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community

Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain...

Author: Anne Vallely
ISBN: 9780802084156
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community,...  Read More >>

The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction

The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction

Author: Muriel Saville-Troike (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780631228424
Format: Paperback
$82.95

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why...  Read More >>

Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity

Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy...

Author: Jacques M. Henry ,  Carl L. Bankston
ISBN: 9780275978174
Format: Hardback
$140.00

In this work, the authors detail and describe the way the working class Cajun majority and the white collar Cajun...  Read More >>

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

Black Seminoles in the Bahamas

Author: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813025599
Format: Hardback
$121.00

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Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique

Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique

Author: George Noblit ,  Susana Y. Flores
ISBN: 9781572734753
Format: Hardback
$181.50

This collection of essays are on the cutting edge of contemporary ethnographic methods that are based in a critique...  Read More >>

Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community

Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain...

Author: Anne Vallely
ISBN: 9780802035455
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community,...  Read More >>

Barons, Brokers and Buyers: The Institutions and Cultures of Philippine Sugar

Barons, Brokers and Buyers: The Institutions and Cultures...

Author: Michael S. Billig
ISBN: 9780824825614
Format: Hardback
$134.64

Michael Billig examines the decline of the Filipino sugar industry within both the dynamic context of contemporary...  Read More >>

The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction

The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction

Author: Muriel Saville-Troike (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780631228417
Format: Hardback
$246.95

This text is concerned with how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures. This introduction...  Read More >>

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal...

Author: Donald J Ortner
ISBN: 9781493301751
Format: Paperback
$673.20

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment...  Read More >>

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal...

Author: Donald J Ortner
ISBN: 9781281025173
Format: Electronic book text
$776.16

Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment...  Read More >>

Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali

Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali

Author: Megan Jennaway
ISBN: 9780742518636
Format: Hardback
$180.95

This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in...  Read More >>

Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali

Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali

Author: Megan Jennaway
ISBN: 9780742518643
Format: Paperback
$58.95

This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in...  Read More >>

Accommodating Diversity: National Policies that Prevent Ethnic Conflict

Accommodating Diversity: National Policies that Prevent...

Author: Irwin Deutscher ,  Louis Kriesberg
ISBN: 9780739104576
Format: Hardback
$182.16

Accommodating Diversity mines the world's most troubling incidences of racial and ethnic conflict in order to find...  Read More >>

The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel

The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans...

Author: Rebecca B. Kook
ISBN: 9780739104415
Format: Hardback
$229.68

Kook makes the provocative argument that membership in democracies is inherently exclusionary, and that national...  Read More >>

TQM and Hrm - The Human Side to Quality

TQM and Hrm - The Human Side to Quality

Author: Group Publishing Emerald
ISBN: 9786610706570
Format: Electronic book text
$662.11

When Total Quality Management (TQM) first broke onto the management scene, it was hailed as a revolutionary idea...  Read More >>

Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology. Methods and New Frontirrs in Neuroscience.

Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology. Methods...

Author: Asif A Ghazanfar (Neuroscience Institute and Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)
ISBN: 9781280645143
Format: Electronic book text
$609.15

Like speech, the species-specific vocalizations or calls of non-human primates mediate social interactions, convey...  Read More >>

Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings: Current Perspectives in Psychology

Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings: Current...

Author: Professor Duane M Rumbaugh (Georgia State University) ,  David A Washburn
ISBN: 9781281730169
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioural scientists have...  Read More >>

Fragments of Neurological History

Fragments of Neurological History

Author: John M Pearce (University of Cardiff, UK)
ISBN: 9781281866776
Format: Electronic book text
$388.08

This highly interesting collection of historical articles started as a series of space-fillers, the journalist's...  Read More >>

Do Whales Have Wings?

Do Whales Have Wings?

Author: Michael Dahl
ISBN: 9781282141780
Format: Electronic book text
$133.37

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Vomeronasal Chemoreception in Vertebrates: A Study of the Second Nose

Vomeronasal Chemoreception in Vertebrates: A Study of...

Author: Charles Evans
ISBN: 9781281866806
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

The vomeronasal organ is an olfactory structure in the nose, originally described in 1813 by the Danish court veterinarian...  Read More >>

Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris

Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and...

Author: John P. Jackson, Jr.
ISBN: 9780226389356
Format: Paperback
$44.95

How is it that science has been a factor for both the rise of racislist thinking and its demise? This volume of...  Read More >>

Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice

Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice

Author: Susanne Küchler
ISBN: 9781859736227
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to...

Author: M. Nazif Shahrani
ISBN: 9780295982625
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This new edition of a highly praised ethnography of nomadic peoples in Afghanistan includes a discussion of the...  Read More >>

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