Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Is a collection of ethnographic accounts of what everyday life is like in the midst of dramatic political transformation,...  Read More >>

This work combines theory, practice and ethnography in an exploration of how teachers can fully implement diversity...  Read More >>

""You will understand Africa differently after reading this book...the richly reported stories he tells to make...  Read More >>

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One of our foremost anthropologists looks at the fundamental questions of human origins and what our evolutionary...  Read More >>

What are the biological effects of neuropeptides and other neuroactive substances? What are their receptors, their...  Read More >>

This work combines theory, practice and ethnography in an exploration of how teachers can fully implement diversity...  Read More >>

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Offers an interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on...  Read More >>

The dead tell no tales. Or do they? This book shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives, and ours...  Read More >>

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Showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule before Indian Independence and their...  Read More >>

Foreign Devils is an oral history of expatriates in Hong Kong during the last years of British sovereignty and the...  Read More >>

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A bold new theory on what sparked the ""big bang"" of human culture The abrupt emergence of human culture over...  Read More >>

Showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule before Indian Independence and their...  Read More >>

A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and...  Read More >>

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Using primary sources and oral history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in...  Read More >>

A trans-national study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and...  Read More >>

The study of human reproductive ecology represents an important new development in human evolutionary biology  Read More >>

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What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question...  Read More >>

What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question...  Read More >>