Physical anthropology & ethnography books

This work explores and analyses the ways in which our ancient genes contend with, and influence, modern human life....  Read More >>

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America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that...  Read More >>

Where not very long ago Americans sought assimilation, they now pursue multiculturalism. Nowhere has this transformation...  Read More >>

Volume 1, The Aborigines of Sakhalin, contains translations into English of the Polish, Russian and Japanese material...  Read More >>

Wayne Warry argues that Aboriginal self-government can be realized only when individuals are secure in their cultural...  Read More >>

Wayne Warry argues that Aboriginal self-government can be realized only when individuals are secure in their cultural...  Read More >>

A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of...  Read More >>

""This is not ... the nomination of a justice of the peace to some small county in some small state. This involves...  Read More >>

In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the relationship between racial perceptions and policy choices in America. The contributors...  Read More >>

his volume deals in depth with the life of the Sinti and Roma in Germany and their representation in German literature,...  Read More >>

This ethnography explores the Fiesta de los Tastoanes celebrated annually by the citizens of Jocotan, Mexico, an...  Read More >>

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Through the sharing of one man's life and photographs, this ethnography of human existence covers religion, philosophy,...  Read More >>

With the end of the cold war, the relative importance of ethnic conflicts as a threat to international peace and...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays, in which the authors look at evidence for the existence of an ethnic consciousness amongst...  Read More >>

An examination of how migration and settlement patterns have varied for students from linguistically and culturally...  Read More >>

Rejecting abstractions of ""culture"", this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract...  Read More >>

How a working-class community works to preserve their community.  Read More >>

Four scholars of language and education take Kaqchikel as one example of the living Mayan languages and explore...  Read More >>

Rejecting abstractions of ""culture"", this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract...  Read More >>

This work examines the relationship between European and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Following...  Read More >>

This volume is the second in the planned coverage of the neurochemical circuitry of the primate central nervous...  Read More >>