Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities

Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities...

Author: Deborah Durham ,  Jacqueline Solway
ISBN: 9780253030009
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how changing political and economic factors form the background for generational...  Read More >>

Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities

Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities...

Author: Deborah Durham ,  Jacqueline Solway
ISBN: 9780253029737
Format: Hardback
$184.80

In all cases, the contributors demonstrate how changing political and economic factors form the background for generational...  Read More >>

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in...

Author: Carl A. Zimring
ISBN: 9781479874378
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Testosterone: The molecule behind power, sex, and the will to win

Testosterone: The molecule behind power, sex, and the...

Author: Joe Herbert (Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780198724988
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Testosterone lies at the heart of maleness, and is involved in aggression, competitiveness, and risk-taking -- all...  Read More >>

Alien Threat From the Moon

Alien Threat From the Moon

Author: Dylan Clearfield
ISBN: 9780930472306
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Investigation of anomalies found on the Moon.  Read More >>

Landscape in the Longue Durée: A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape

Landscape in the Longue Durée: A History and Theory...

Author: Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL
ISBN: 9781787350823
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Pebbles are typically found only on beaches, in the liminal spaces between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles...  Read More >>

The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame: Discourse, Iconicity and Resistance

The Governmentality of Black Beauty Shame: Discourse,...

Author: Shirley Anne Tate
ISBN: 9781137522573
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses...  Read More >>

Alien Threat from the Moon

Alien Threat from the Moon

Author: Dylan Clearfield
ISBN: 9780930472153
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Examination of alien activity and past life on the moon.  Read More >>

The Science of Man in the World Crisis

The Science of Man in the World Crisis

Author: Ralph Linton
ISBN: 9781376216325
Format: Paperback
$49.03

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Materials for the Physical Anthropology of the Eastern European Jews, Issues 1-6

Materials for the Physical Anthropology of the Eastern...

Author: Maurice Fishberg
ISBN: 9781375513081
Format: Paperback
$49.03

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat

Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on...

Author: Susan Greenhalgh
ISBN: 9781501700767
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Racism, Culture, Markets

Racism, Culture, Markets

Author: John Gabriel
ISBN: 9781138416253
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Explores the connections between cultural representations of ""race"" and their historical, institutional and global...  Read More >>

Towards a Sociology of Health Discourse in Africa

Towards a Sociology of Health Discourse in Africa

Author: Jimoh Amzat ,  Oliver Razum
ISBN: 9783319616711
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social...

Author: Charles Stanish (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781107180550
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish investigates how people living in small groups...  Read More >>

Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human

Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social...

Author: Andrew Gardner
ISBN: 9781138404335
Format: Hardback
$410.00

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Rural-Urban Dynamics in the East African Mountains

Rural-Urban Dynamics in the East African Mountains

Author: Fançois Bart ,  Bob R Nakileza
ISBN: 9789987753987
Format: Paperback
$131.81

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The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990

The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A...

Author: Oscar Salemink
ISBN: 9781138863422
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir

Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir

Author: Eugene Goodheart
ISBN: 9781138520998
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of this book, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation...  Read More >>

Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective...

Author: Des Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780295741918
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective...

Author: Des Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780295741901
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives

Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical,...

Author: Jennifer F. Byrnes ,  Jennifer L. Muller
ISBN: 9783319569482
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This volume has three goals: The first goal of this edited volume is to present theoretical and methodological discussions...  Read More >>

Development of Facial Traits: connecting people in the world

Development of Facial Traits: connecting people in the...

Author: Kam Chiang
ISBN: 9781543240832
Format: Paperback
$33.79

Our looks are genetic and hereditary. However, very few of us know how did our facial characteristics develop before...  Read More >>

The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth Century Britain

The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth Century Britain...

Author: Michael Rowe
ISBN: 9781138272095
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This work examines racialization and the discourses with which it co-joined. It returns to debates of the 1980s,...  Read More >>

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