Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality

The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science...

Author: Robin Fox
ISBN: 9780813514888
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies

Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case...

Author: M. Nichter
ISBN: 9780792300052
Format: Hardback
$712.80

In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology...  Read More >>

Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence

Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence

Author: B.J. Widick
ISBN: 9780814321041
Format: Paperback
$57.20

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Evolutionary Politics

Evolutionary Politics

Author: Glendon Schubert
ISBN: 9780809314300
Format: Hardback
$89.10

This synthesis of research into the behavior of humans and other social animals ranges horizontally from a congruence...  Read More >>

Tangweera: Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages

Tangweera: Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages...

Author: C. Napier Bell ,  Philip A. Dennis
ISBN: 9780292781030
Format: Paperback
$56.95

The autobiographical account of a 19th century British man's childhood on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua.  Read More >>

Evolutionary Politics

Evolutionary Politics

Author: Glendon Schubert
ISBN: 9780809314317
Format: Paperback
$59.40

This synthesis of research into the behavior of humans and other social animals ranges horizontally from a congruence...  Read More >>

A Continuing Trial of Treatment: Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

A Continuing Trial of Treatment: Medical Pluralism in...

Author: Stephen Frankel ,  Gilbert Lewis
ISBN: 9781556080760
Format: Paperback
$762.96

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Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering

Author: J. Williams ,  R. K. Patient
ISBN: 9781852210717
Format: Paperback
$23.95

The aim of this book is to describe how DNA cloning is used to isolate and manipulate DNA and to present the basic...  Read More >>

Taphonomy: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature

Taphonomy: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature

Author: Christopher P. Koch
ISBN: 9780912933054
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Social and Applied Aspects of Perceiving Faces

Social and Applied Aspects of Perceiving Faces

Author: Thomas R. Alley
ISBN: 9780805801637
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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SONGPRINTS CASSETTE ONLY

SONGPRINTS CASSETTE ONLY

Author: Judith Vander
ISBN: 9780252015311
Format: Audio
$28.91

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Biomedicine Examined

Biomedicine Examined

Author: M. Lock ,  D. Gordon
ISBN: 9781556080722
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit...  Read More >>

Biomedicine Examined

Biomedicine Examined

Author: M. Lock ,  D. Gordon
ISBN: 9781556080715
Format: Hardback
$580.77

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Evolution and Human Kinship

Evolution and Human Kinship

Author: Austin L. Hughes (Research Associate, Biology Department, Research Associate, Biology Department, University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9780195052343
Format: Hardback
$126.95

Hughes here presents a theoretical approach to human social behaviour that is rooted in evolutionary biology and...  Read More >>

Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems

Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the...

Author: Jadran Mimica ,  Roy Wagner
ISBN: 9780854968541
Format: Paperback
$83.99

From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and...  Read More >>

Ethnicity and Assimilation: Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Japanese, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Whites

Ethnicity and Assimilation: Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos,...

Author: Robert M. Jiobu
ISBN: 9780887066481
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This is a study of the main ethnic groups in California and is the only study that offers a direct comparison of...  Read More >>

The Eskimos

The Eskimos

Author: Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
ISBN: 9780806121260
Format: Hardback
$52.67

This superb ethnographic study, illustrated by 120 remarkable color photographs, explodes the conventional idea...  Read More >>

Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind

Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and...

Author: Roy Harvey Pearce ,  Arnold Krupat
ISBN: 9780520062276
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Examines the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the novels of the 18th and...  Read More >>

Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research

Ethnostatistics: Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative...

Author: ROBERT P GEPHART
ISBN: 9780803930261
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This volume discusses ethnostatistics - the interpretative study of the construction and use of statistics in social...  Read More >>

They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups

They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic...

Author: June Drenning Holmquist
ISBN: 9780873512312
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Why did emigrants come to Minnesota, where did they settle, what did they do and how did they maintain their ethnicity?...  Read More >>

The Eighth Day: Social Evolution As the Self-Organization of Energy

The Eighth Day: Social Evolution As the Self-Organization...

Author: Richard Newbold Adams
ISBN: 9780292720619
Format: Paperback
$47.95

This book argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social...  Read More >>

You Owe Yourself a Drunk: Ethnography of Urban Nomads

You Owe Yourself a Drunk: Ethnography of Urban Nomads...

Author: James P. Spradley
ISBN: 9780819168566
Format: Paperback
$100.95

An account of the experiences of men who are repeatedly arrested for public drunkenness. This book challenges the...  Read More >>

Trace Elements in Environmental History: Proceedings of the Symposium Held from June 24th to 26th, 1987, at Gottingen

Trace Elements in Environmental History: Proceedings...

Author: Gisela Grupe ,  Bernd Herrmann
ISBN: 9783540187189
Format: Hardback
$129.36

This book contains the contributions to an European symposium on ""Trace Elements in Environmental History,"" held...  Read More >>

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