Physical anthropology & ethnography books

A look at the family that answered many questions about when and where humankind began. From Louis Leakey's breakthrough...  Read More >>

Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this study tells of the ceremonies,...  Read More >>

This text presents directions in classroom education generated by using ethnography and sociolinguistics as teaching...  Read More >>

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This text presents directions in classroom education generated by using ethnography and sociolinguistics as teaching...  Read More >>

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The ideology of the American dream - the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous...  Read More >>

Offers the reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the...  Read More >>

This text presents Richard Leakey's personal view of the development of Homo Sapiens. He argues that once the first...  Read More >>

A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904....  Read More >>

Focusing on racial, ethnic, and religious groups, the author proposes a historical overview of group life and its...  Read More >>

Presents a cohesive exposition of the concepts, results, and problems underlying theory and practice in human and...  Read More >>

This volume examines cases ranging from the well-publicized ethnonationalism of Bosnia and post-Apartheid South...  Read More >>

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and...  Read More >>

Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this...  Read More >>

Stimulated by discussions of responsibility and ethics in anthropological fieldwork, this book explores what happens...  Read More >>

Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This...  Read More >>

This book examines Canadian ethnicity from an identity and inequality perspective, and will be the main textbook...  Read More >>

This is the first major study to trace development of the Ainu, the 'indigenous' people of Northern Japan, and to...  Read More >>

Arguing that the concept of 'race' is a means through which Western society has come to understand the relationship...  Read More >>

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This book examines the differences in racial perceptions that have been in evidence in recent political events....  Read More >>

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