Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Combating Racial Discrimination

Combating Racial Discrimination

Author: Erna Appelt ,  Monika Jarosch
ISBN: 9781859733080
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Experts from the United States, Canada and Europe examine the historical, institutional, judicial and sociological...  Read More >>

Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion

Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human...

Author: James Arthur ,  James Arthur
ISBN: 9781585091515
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca

Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca...

Author: Jeffrey H. Cohen
ISBN: 9780292712218
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Examines the ways in which people practice traditional co-operative and reciprocal relationships.  Read More >>

Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project

Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical,...

Author: Phillip R. Sloan
ISBN: 9780268008208
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific...  Read More >>

The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis

The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient...

Author: Jeremy McInerney
ISBN: 9780292752306
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Argues that for some Greeks the ethnos and the koinon were important units of social and political life  Read More >>

To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation

To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric...

Author: Bill Ong Hing
ISBN: 9780814736098
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Considers immigration in the context of the global and national economy, examining such often-overlooked issues...  Read More >>

Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria

Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race...

Author: Patricia M. E. Lorcin
ISBN: 9781860643767
Format: Paperback
$87.12

"This book explores the process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions were developed and used...  Read More >>

Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us

Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell...

Author: Barbara J. King
ISBN: 9780852559031
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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Greek Island Cosmos: Kinship and Community in Meganisi

Greek Island Cosmos: Kinship and Community in Meganisi...

Author: Roger Just
ISBN: 9780852552674
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Controlling Our Destinies: Human Genome Project from Historical, Philosophical, Social and Ethical Perspectives

Controlling Our Destinies: Human Genome Project from...

Author: Phillip R. Sloan
ISBN: 9780268008185
Format: Hardback
$132.00

This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific...  Read More >>

Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the Dani

Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among...

Author: O.W.""""Bud"""" Hampton
ISBN: 9780890968703
Format: Hardback
$141.90

In this unique study, Hampton describes the complete cultural inventory of both secular and sacred stones, ranging...  Read More >>

The Vietnamese Americans

The Vietnamese Americans

Author: Hien Duc Do
ISBN: 9780313297809
Format: Hardback
$92.00

An important contribution to the understanding of Vietnam and the Vietnamese American immigrant experience.  Read More >>

Supplement to the ""Handbook of Middle American Indians"": Ethnology

Supplement to the ""Handbook of Middle American Indians"":...

Author: Victoria Reifler Bricker ,  John D. Monaghan
ISBN: 9780292708815
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Reviews the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America, and discusses the theoretical and...  Read More >>

Ethnography in Nursing Research

Ethnography in Nursing Research

Author: Janice M. Roper ,  Jill Shapira
ISBN: 9780761908746
Format: Paperback
$369.00

Describing the principles and methods of ethnography used by nurse researchers, the authors demonstrate how to:...  Read More >>

Education and Racism: A Cross National Inventory of Positive Effects of Education on Ethnic Tolerance

Education and Racism: A Cross National Inventory of...

Author: Louk Hagendoorn ,  Shervin Nekuee
ISBN: 9780754611417
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Offers an inventory of factors contributing to prejudice in seven countries and indicates the role of formal education...  Read More >>

Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel

Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit...

Author: Glenn Hinson
ISBN: 9780812217179
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Fire in My Bones contributes to our understanding of gospel-and of the nature of religious experience in general....  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in East Africa

Race and Ethnicity in East Africa

Author: P. Forster ,  M. Hitchcock
ISBN: 9780333691014
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Race and ethnicity continue to be important if unwelcome factors in modern politics. This book examines the phenomena...  Read More >>

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography...

Author: Purnima Mankekar
ISBN: 9780822323907
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography...

Author: Purnima Mankekar
ISBN: 9780822323570
Format: Hardback
$176.95

With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment...  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates

Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and...

Author: Stephen Steinberg (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780631208310
Format: Paperback
$139.79

This volume brings together some of the clearest and most incisive recent scholarship on race and ethnicity, and...  Read More >>

Tourist's Guide to the British

Tourist's Guide to the British

Author: Simon Henry ,  Mark Bennington
ISBN: 9781903222065
Format: Paperback
$7.74

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Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49

Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among...

Author: David K. Yoo ,  Roger Daniels
ISBN: 9780252068225
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of US history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance...  Read More >>

Ingrians and Neighbours: Focus on the Eastern Baltin Sea Region

Ingrians and Neighbours: Focus on the Eastern Baltin...

Author: Markku Teinonen ,  Timo J. Virtanen
ISBN: 9789517460132
Format: Paperback
$58.22

In this report of their joint project, Finnish, Estonian and Russian ethnologists, folklorists and linguists examine...  Read More >>

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