Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States examines in comprehensive detail the most rapidly growing and...  Read More >>

This collection of essays provides a background for ongoing discussions about multiculturalism, cultural politics...  Read More >>

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Presents an analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing...  Read More >>

How and why do people give and obey commands? The author shows how hierarchies elicit and repress the aggressive...  Read More >>

This collection of essays focuses principally on Indian/White and Black/White relations in colonial America. While...  Read More >>

In this fascinating ethnographic study, Valentine guides the reader through the language, geography, and sociology...  Read More >>

This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently,...  Read More >>

Addresses lingering questions about government resettlement of Native Canadians and its impact on their lives.  Read More >>

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Why does one society survive while others perish? When two cultures come into contact, how do exploitation, violence,...  Read More >>

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The two volumes that constitute The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin in Tennessee bring together the findings...  Read More >>

Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more...  Read More >>

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Encounters with the Americas places the museum in a living context through first-person accounts of sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

This text looks at the relations between indigenous and settler/immigrant populations. It highlights the experiences...  Read More >>

An exploration of the direct funding of advocacy groups by the government. Focusing on groups concerned with the...  Read More >>

This selection of excerpts and essays delineates Brazilian culture as exemplified by its people. Two pieces that...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wealth of original sources, this book explores the changing contours of the politics of race in the...  Read More >>

This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting...  Read More >>

This volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries....  Read More >>

This volume contains 71 revised refereed papers, including seven invited surveys, presented during the Third European...  Read More >>

The Californios were the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Alta California. By the 1870s they had become a conquered...  Read More >>