Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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The Scar of Race

The Scar of Race

Author: Paul M. Sniderman ,  Thomas Piazza
ISBN: 9780674790117
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This text examines what, precisely, is the clash over race in America in the 1990s and whether it supports the charge...  Read More >>

Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement

Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement...

Author: Frances Bartkowski
ISBN: 9780816623624
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Bartkowski uses travel writings, US immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how...  Read More >>

Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990

Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990...

Author: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780870133619
Format: Hardback
$84.35

In this important study, Hutchinson examines in detail the American Communist party's largely unsuccessful effort...  Read More >>

Los Angeles--Struggles Toward Multiethnic Community: Asian American, African American, and Latino Perspectives

Los Angeles--Struggles Toward Multiethnic Community:...

Author: Edward T. Chang ,  Russell Charles Leong
ISBN: 9780295973753
Format: Paperback
$28.95

Myths and theories of the American melting pot, of assimilation, and of pluralistic society were shattered as racial...  Read More >>

The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh

The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of...

Author: Tara Singh Bains ,  Hugh Johnston
ISBN: 9780773512665
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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A'aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self

A'aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self

Author: Michele Stephen
ISBN: 9780520088290
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This is an ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea. Based on 20 years of fieldwork, this detailed study of...  Read More >>

Maya for Travelers and Students: A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatan

Maya for Travelers and Students: A Guide to Language...

Author: Gary Bevington
ISBN: 9780292708129
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Inherit the Alamo: Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine

Inherit the Alamo: Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine...

Author: Holly Beachley Brear
ISBN: 9780292718746
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Long overshadowed by the towering buildings of downtown San Antonio, the modest little Alamo evokes tremendous feeling...  Read More >>

The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh

The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of...

Author: Tara Singh Bains ,  Hugh Johnston
ISBN: 9780773512658
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong...  Read More >>

Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle

Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common...

Author: Barry Kanpol ,  Professor Peter McLaren (Chapman University, USA)
ISBN: 9780897893084
Format: Paperback
$62.00

This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic...  Read More >>

Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American Through Celebration

Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American...

Author: April R. Schultz
ISBN: 9780870239397
Format: Hardback
$85.80

This interdisciplinary study examines how ethnic identity has been shaped and expressed in American culture. It...  Read More >>

Mapping the Human Genome: Reality, Morality, and Deity

Mapping the Human Genome: Reality, Morality, and Deity...

Author: Theodore C. Kent
ISBN: 9780819197795
Format: Paperback
$124.08

This text examines the new field of genetic engineering and addresses the troubling questions about nature and the...  Read More >>

Advances in Human Genetics

Advances in Human Genetics

Author: Harry Harris ,  Kurt Hirschhorn
ISBN: 9780306448454
Format: Hardback
$564.96

From reviews of previous volumes in the series: 'Extremely valuable...thoroughly recommended.'-Annals of Human...  Read More >>

Strength in Diversity: Reader in Physical Anthropology

Strength in Diversity: Reader in Physical Anthropology...

Author: Ann Herring ,  Leslie Chan
ISBN: 9781551300429
Format: Hardback
$80.99

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Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish,...

Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson
ISBN: 9780674831858
Format: Hardback
$178.95

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the U.S. “became American,” by choice and with...  Read More >>

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic

Author: A Torres
ISBN: 9781566392808
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle

Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common...

Author: Barry Kanpol ,  Professor Peter McLaren (Chapman University, USA)
ISBN: 9780897893077
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic...  Read More >>

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African American and Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy

Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African American and...

Author: Andres Torres
ISBN: 9781566392792
Format: Hardback
$199.32

Offers a political-economic reassessment of New York's African American and Puerto Rican communities.  Read More >>

Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity

Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American...

Author: Yasuko I. Takezawa
ISBN: 9780801481819
Format: Paperback
$68.51

A unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans.  Read More >>

Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity

Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American...

Author: Yasuko I. Takezawa
ISBN: 9780801429859
Format: Hardback
$382.80

A unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans.  Read More >>

Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement

Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement...

Author: Frances Bartkowski
ISBN: 9780816623617
Format: Hardback
$142.43

This study uses travel writings, US immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how...  Read More >>

What Racists Believe: Race Relations in South Africa and the United States

What Racists Believe: Race Relations in South Africa...

Author: Gerhard Schutte
ISBN: 9780803957862
Format: Paperback
$233.00

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy,...  Read More >>

What Racists Believe: Race Relations in South Africa and the United States

What Racists Believe: Race Relations in South Africa...

Author: Gerhard Schutte
ISBN: 9780803957855
Format: Hardback
$369.00

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy,...  Read More >>

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