Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945...

Author: Gary Okihiro
ISBN: 9780877229452
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenging the view of Hawaii as a mythical ""racial paradise,"" this work presents the history of a systematic...  Read More >>

Buffalo

Buffalo

Author: John E. Foster ,  Dick Harrison
ISBN: 9780888642370
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination....  Read More >>

Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys' Club and Jewish Community in Urban America, 1940-1990

Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys' Club and...

Author: Gerald Sorin
ISBN: 9780814779392
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material...  Read More >>

The Ghotul in Muria Society

The Ghotul in Muria Society

Author: Simeran Man Singh Gell
ISBN: 9783718652211
Format: Hardback
$143.00

A full-length study of the Muria of Bastar District of Central India, based on the results of intensive fieldwork...  Read More >>

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

Author: Frank Dikotter
ISBN: 9780804719940
Format: Hardback
$81.95

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Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity: Literature and Community in ""Die Abendschule""

Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity: Literature and...

Author: Brent O. Peterson
ISBN: 9780801425486
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Die Abendschule was a family journal published first in Buffalo and then in St. Louis between 1854 and 1940. Examining...  Read More >>

Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis

Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern...

Author: Michael Burawoy ,  Alice Burton
ISBN: 9780520073227
Format: Paperback
$55.95

In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront...  Read More >>

China and the Chinese Overseas

China and the Chinese Overseas

Author: Gungwu Wang
ISBN: 9789812100290
Format: Paperback
$76.56

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The Tlingit Indians

The Tlingit Indians

Author: George Thornton Emmons ,  Frederica de Laguna
ISBN: 9780295970080
Format: Hardback
$128.95

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The Balinese People

The Balinese People

Author: Gordon D. Jensen ,  Luh Ketut Suryani
ISBN: 9780195885576
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Published fifty years after Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's Balinese Character, this study of the Balinese people...  Read More >>

History Of Yiddish Studies

History Of Yiddish Studies

Author: Dov-Ber Kerler
ISBN: 9783718650606
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Topics discussed include Yiddish linguistics dialectology, historical semantics, methodology, old and modern Yiddish...  Read More >>

Living Earth: A Short History of Life and its Home

Living Earth: A Short History of Life and its Home

Author: R.E. Nisbet
ISBN: 9780044458555
Format: Hardback
$517.44

Life has shaped the Earth, and the Earth has moulded the history of life. The history of life on Earth is held in...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology

Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology

Author: Joan C. Stevenson
ISBN: 9780313247569
Format: Hardback
$114.00

This reference dictionary describes the development of physical or biological anthropology concepts, tracing the...  Read More >>

The Japanese American Experience

The Japanese American Experience

Author: David J. O'Brien ,  Stephen S. Fugita
ISBN: 9780253206565
Format: Paperback
$28.91

""Slim, well-researched, and readable, this is not only a social history of an ethnic community but a gateway into...  Read More >>

Estimation of Mortality Rates in Stage-Structured Population

Estimation of Mortality Rates in Stage-Structured Population...

Author: Simon N. Wood ,  Roger M. Nisbet
ISBN: 9783540539797
Format: Paperback
$84.35

The central theme in this book is a somewhat complex algorithm for mortality estimation (detailed at the end of...  Read More >>

Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology

Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives...

Author: Eric R. Wolf
ISBN: 9780791406519
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This book intends to systematically overcome the received practice of treating religion and politics as wholly separate...  Read More >>

Living Earth: A Short History of Life and Its Home

Living Earth: A Short History of Life and Its Home

Author: Evan G. Nisbet
ISBN: 9780044458562
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Life has shaped the Earth, and the Earth has moulded the history of life. The history of life on Earth is held in...  Read More >>

In Borneo Jungles

In Borneo Jungles

Author: William Krohn
ISBN: 9780195889956
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This is a first-hand account of the Dyak tribe of Borneo, written by an American forensic surgeon who travelled...  Read More >>

Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis...

Author: Walter P. Zenner
ISBN: 9780791406434
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Reading Ethnography

Reading Ethnography

Author: David Jacobson
ISBN: 9780791405475
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis...

Author: Walter P. Zenner
ISBN: 9780791406427
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines

Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and...

Author: Fred R. Myers
ISBN: 9780520074118
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come...  Read More >>

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