Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Moving Through and Passing On: Fulani Mobility, Survival and Identity in Ghana

Moving Through and Passing On: Fulani Mobility, Survival...

Author: Yaa P.A. Oppong
ISBN: 9780765801265
Format: Hardback
$375.19

The Fulani are one of West Africa's most populous and geographically dispersed ethnic groups  Read More >>

Picturing the Primitive: Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema

Picturing the Primitive: Visual Culture, Ethnography,...

Author: A. Oksiloff
ISBN: 9780312293734
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Asseka Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion,...  Read More >>

Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs

Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs...

Author: Ronald Chase
ISBN: 9786610761357
Format: Electronic book text
$488.08

This title presents a thorough scholarly review of gastropod neurobiology presenting what is known about identified...  Read More >>

Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That Is, Was, & Will Be

Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That Is, Was, & Will...

Author: Diane Bell
ISBN: 9781875559718
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This study examines the culture, politics and history of the Ngarrindjeri people and the burning issue of the ""women's...  Read More >>

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of...

Author: David McKnight
ISBN: 9780415271516
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This study reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island,...  Read More >>

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of...

Author: David McKnight
ISBN: 9780415271509
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This study reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island,...  Read More >>

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish,...

Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson ,  David R. Roediger
ISBN: 9780520233423
Format: Paperback
$57.95

""A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately ""unmeltable""...  Read More >>

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting...

Author: Heather Pringle
ISBN: 9780786884636
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Mummies, experts, and breaking science revealed in journalist Pringle's fascinating dive into a little-known arena...  Read More >>

Caribbean Transnational Experience

Caribbean Transnational Experience

Author: Harry Goulbourne
ISBN: 9780745317625
Format: Paperback
$50.95

A study of the creolisation process which has shaped the Caribbean  Read More >>

Caribbean Transnational Experience

Caribbean Transnational Experience

Author: Harry Goulbourne
ISBN: 9780745317632
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A study of the creolisation process which has shaped the Caribbean  Read More >>

Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods

Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods

Author: Giorgio A Ascoli
ISBN: 9786610830602
Format: Electronic book text
$739.20

Computer models, simulations, and visualization now offer unprecedented opportunities to obtain a deeper understanding...  Read More >>

Immediate Early Genes and Inducible Transcription Factors in Mapping of the Central Nervous System Function and Dysfunction. Handbook of Clinical Neutoanatomy, Volume 19.

Immediate Early Genes and Inducible Transcription Factors...

Author: L Kaczmarek ,  H A Robertson
ISBN: 9786611059767
Format: Electronic book text
$1277.50

That molecular neurobiology has become a dominant part of neuroscience research can be credited to the discovery...  Read More >>

Thyroid Hormone Receptors: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 202.

Thyroid Hormone Receptors: Methods and Protocols. Methods...

Author: Aria Baniahmad
ISBN: 9786610821365
Format: Electronic book text
$551.76

A panel of outstanding investigators surveys and explains the major cutting-edge methods used in thryroid receptor...  Read More >>

Equality Deferred: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in America, Since 1945

Equality Deferred: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration...

Author: James Stuart Olson
ISBN: 9780155074149
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Issues of diversity have been and remain a key aspect of contemporary America. James Olson draws on his experience...  Read More >>

Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil

Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast...

Author: Suzel Reily
ISBN: 9780226709413
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This work explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as Folias de Reis (companions...  Read More >>

No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan

No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan

Author: Daniel Touro Linger
ISBN: 9780804741828
Format: Paperback
$43.95

No One Home is an ethnographic study, based on fieldwork and extensive personal interviews, of nikkeis - as Brazilians...  Read More >>

Red Blues

Red Blues

Author: Dennis Shasha ,  Marina Shron
ISBN: 9780841914179
Format: Hardback
$74.91

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Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination

Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination

Author: Loretta Fowler
ISBN: 9780803220133
Format: Hardback
$145.20

How power on multiple levels infuses the everyday lives and consciousness of the Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples of...  Read More >>

Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil

Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast...

Author: Suzel Reily
ISBN: 9780226709390
Format: Hardback
$163.95

This work explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as Folias de Reis (companions...  Read More >>

Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising

Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the...

Author: Linda S. Lewis
ISBN: 9780824825430
Format: Paperback
$60.72

As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write...  Read More >>

Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising

Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the...

Author: Linda S. Lewis
ISBN: 9780824824792
Format: Hardback
$137.28

As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write...  Read More >>

Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding

Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and...

Author: Penny Dransart
ISBN: 9780415279598
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, this...  Read More >>

In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record

In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological...

Author: Lewis R. Binford
ISBN: 9780520233393
Format: Paperback
$52.95

This text questions established ideas and proposes theories based on the author's comparative archaeological and...  Read More >>

The Storage Box of Tradition: Kwakiutl Art, Anthropologists and Museums, 1881-1981

The Storage Box of Tradition: Kwakiutl Art, Anthropologists...

Author: Ira Jacknis
ISBN: 9781588340115
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This unique study investigates the effects of the long interaction between anthropologists and the Kwakwaka'wakw...  Read More >>

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