Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Ethnography and Education Policy

Ethnography and Education Policy

Author: Geoffrey Walford
ISBN: 9780762307685
Format: Hardback
$334.95

This text emphasises the central place that ethnographic work should have in the formulation and evaluation of education...  Read More >>

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Author: Constance Hammond
ISBN: 9786611037130
Format: Electronic book text
$607.20

This text on neuroscience explains the molecular aspects of ionic channels (voltage and ligand-dependent channels)...  Read More >>

China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

Author: Nancy N. Chen ,  Constance D. Clark
ISBN: 9780822326403
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Offers an account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. This book emphasises...  Read More >>

China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture

Author: Nancy N. Chen ,  Constance D. Clark
ISBN: 9780822326342
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Offers an account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. This book emphasises...  Read More >>

Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity

Modern Roots: Studies of National Identity

Author: Alain Dieckhoff ,  Natividad Gutiérrez
ISBN: 9780754611523
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Addressing recent scholarly interest in national identity, this book examines the social practices that give historical...  Read More >>

Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed

Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics...

Author: Gerald Gamm
ISBN: 9780674005587
Format: Paperback
$140.95

Gamm places neighborhood institutions at the center his investigation. He challenges the long-held assumption that...  Read More >>

The Politics of Ethnicity in Settler Societies: States of Unease

The Politics of Ethnicity in Settler Societies: States...

Author: D. Pearson
ISBN: 9780333636879
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The Politics of Ethnicity in Settler Societies explores the linked processes of aboriginal dispossession, settler...  Read More >>

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan...

Author: Sherry B. Ortner
ISBN: 9780691074481
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy

Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural...

Author: Margaret Sutton ,  Bradley A.U. Levinson
ISBN: 9781567505177
Format: Paperback
$58.00

This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate...  Read More >>

Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax

Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield...

Author: Robert A. Rubinstein ,  Sol Tax
ISBN: 9780765807359
Format: Paperback
$121.59

Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues  Read More >>

Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive

Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive...

Author: Susan C. Stonich ,  Susan C. Stonich
ISBN: 9780313308567
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive includes peoples hit hardest by the current...  Read More >>

Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy

Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural...

Author: Margaret Sutton ,  Bradley A.U. Levinson
ISBN: 9781567505160
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate...  Read More >>

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Volume II

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences:...

Author: National Research Council ,  Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ISBN: 9780309068406
Format: Paperback
$72.47

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. This volume explores trends...  Read More >>

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human...

Author: Craig B. Stanford
ISBN: 9780691088884
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Based on insights into the behaviour of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing...  Read More >>

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Volume I

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences:...

Author: National Research Council ,  Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ISBN: 9780309068383
Format: Paperback
$116.44

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race. This volume explores trends...  Read More >>

A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion

A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual...

Author: Craig T. Palmer (University of Missouri-Columbia) ,  Randy Thornhill
ISBN: 9780262700832
Format: Paperback
$66.00

A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape....  Read More >>

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences...

Author: Faith Mitchell ,  William Julius Wilson
ISBN: 9780309064958
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Explores the trends among African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of...  Read More >>

The Circassians: A Handbook

The Circassians: A Handbook

Author: Amjad Jaimoukha
ISBN: 9780700706440
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This work provides an in-depth description by an ""insider"" of the ancient beliefs, customs and traditions of the...  Read More >>

An Anthropological Perspective on Prostitution: The World's Oldest Profession

An Anthropological Perspective on Prostitution: The...

Author: Patricia E. Whelehan
ISBN: 9780773476042
Format: Hardback
$290.27

"This ethnography explores the daily, nonwork lives of prostitutes, showing their commonness, humanity and connections...  Read More >>

Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City

Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in...

Author: Annabelle Sabloff
ISBN: 9780802083616
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce our alienation from the...  Read More >>

Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America

Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America

Author: William Gee Wong ,  Darrell Hamamoto
ISBN: 9781566398305
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Portrays the many-sided legacies of exclusion and discrimination. The stories, columns, essays, and commentaries...  Read More >>

Handbook of Ethnography

Handbook of Ethnography

Author: Paul Atkinson ,  Amanda Coffey
ISBN: 9780761958246
Format: Hardback
$430.00

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Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City

Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in...

Author: Annabelle Sabloff
ISBN: 9780802048325
Format: Hardback
$176.88

Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce our alienation from the...  Read More >>

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