Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Nisei: The Quiet Americans

Nisei: The Quiet Americans
Author: Bill Hosokawa
ISBN: 9780870816680
Format: Paperback 		$79.07

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Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone

Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical...
Author: Rosalind Shaw
ISBN: 9780226751320
Format: Paperback 		$61.95

Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped...  Read More >>

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Regional Culture and Economic Development: Explorations in European Ethnology

Regional Culture and Economic Development: Explorations...
Author: Ullrich Kockel ,  Professor Ullrich Kockel
ISBN: 9780754610243
Format: Hardback 		$189.00

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Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora

Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora...
Author: Tim Pat Coogan
ISBN: 9780099958505
Format: Paperback 		$39.99

This study reveals why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious...  Read More >>

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The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-fishers in the Highlands of Scotland

The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-fishers...
Author: Timothy Neat
ISBN: 9781841581996
Format: Paperback 		$79.07

The ""summer walkers"" is the name given to the travelling people - the itinerant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers...  Read More >>

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Identity and Resistance in Okinawa

Identity and Resistance in Okinawa
Author: Matthew Allen
ISBN: 9780742517141
Format: Hardback 		$174.95

This perspective historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist...  Read More >>

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A Forest Tribe of Borneo

A Forest Tribe of Borneo
Author: Christian Gonner ,  K. Seeland
ISBN: 9788124601938
Format: Hardback 		$93.12

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Drawing Back Culture: The Makah Struggle for Repatriation

Drawing Back Culture: The Makah Struggle for Repatriation...
Author: Ann M. Tweedie ,  Janine Bowechop
ISBN: 9780295981956
Format: Hardback 		$70.95

Describes the early stages of the tribe's (Makah Indians of Washington State) implementation of the Native American...  Read More >>

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A Genealogy of Japanese Self-Images

A Genealogy of Japanese Self-Images
Author: Eiji Oguma ,  David Askew
ISBN: 9781876843045
Format: Paperback 		$92.27

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The French in the United States: An Ethnograpic Study

The French in the United States: An Ethnograpic Study...
Author: Jacqueline Lindenfeld
ISBN: 9780897899031
Format: Paperback 		$48.00

This volume examines the histories and experiences of French immigrants in the USA. Jacqueline Lindenfeld, a French-born...  Read More >>

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A Genealogy of Japanese Self-Images

A Genealogy of Japanese Self-Images
Author: Eiji Oguma ,  David Askew
ISBN: 9781876843830
Format: Hardback 		$211.07

An English translation of an important volume that won the Suntory Culture Award in 1996. Oguma (policy management,...  Read More >>

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Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution

Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution
Author: Peter S. Ungar ,  Mark F. Teaford
ISBN: 9780897897365
Format: Hardback 		$150.00

To deal with these problems, we must understand the evolution of the human diet. Studies of traditional peoples,...  Read More >>

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Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone

Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical...
Author: Rosalind Shaw
ISBN: 9780226751313
Format: Hardback 		$163.95

Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped...  Read More >>

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Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism...
Author: Henry Yu (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780195151275
Format: Paperback 		$117.95

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Dominicans in New York City: Power From the Margins

Dominicans in New York City: Power From the Margins...
Author: Milagros Ricourt (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
ISBN: 9780415933308
Format: Hardback 		$189.00

This study explores the diverse struggles of incorporation pursued by immigrants from the Dominican Republic to...  Read More >>

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Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist...
Author: E. San Juan, Jr.
ISBN: 9780822328667
Format: Paperback 		$47.95

Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary...  Read More >>

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Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist...
Author: E. San Juan, Jr.
ISBN: 9780822328513
Format: Hardback 		$176.95

Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary...  Read More >>

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Laboring below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy

Laboring below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty,...
Author: Frank Munger (Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)
ISBN: 9780871546173
Format: Hardback 		$112.20

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The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession

The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession...
Author: Mary Keller
ISBN: 9780801867873
Format: Hardback 		$137.28

It provides an argument for the evaluation of religious lives and their struggles for meaning and power in the contemporary...  Read More >>

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Identity and Resistance in Okinawa

Identity and Resistance in Okinawa
Author: Matthew Allen
ISBN: 9780742517158
Format: Paperback 		$99.99

This historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist within contemporary...  Read More >>

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Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity...
Author: Stephan Palmié
ISBN: 9780822328421
Format: Paperback 		$45.95

Offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, that focuses on developments in Afro-Cuban religious...  Read More >>

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Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity...
Author: Stephan Palmié
ISBN: 9780822328285
Format: Hardback 		$170.95

Offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious...  Read More >>

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Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man

Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the...
Author: Brian Regal
ISBN: 9780754605874
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

An examination of the work of Henry Fairfield Osborn, whose great scientific concern was to link human origins to...  Read More >>

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Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change

Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts...
Author: Carol J. Greenhouse ,  Elizabeth Mertz
ISBN: 9780822328483
Format: Paperback 		$47.95

Collection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects...  Read More >>

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The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination in Democracy

The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination...
Author: Gurpreet Mahajan
ISBN: 9780761995791
Format: Hardback 		$277.20

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