Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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