Physical anthropology & ethnography books

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Rich explores the nature and meaning of race and racism in British society...  Read More >>

In this beautifully written book, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that, although...  Read More >>

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Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametrically opposed....  Read More >>

This is the book everyone wishes he had been given before going off to college: an intellectual primer on all of...  Read More >>

Anthropologist Loretta Fowler here examines the history and culture of the Gros Ventres over two centuries, seeking...  Read More >>

Anthropologist Loretta Fowler here examines the history and culture of the Gros Ventres over two centuries, seeking...  Read More >>

This volume summarizes the findings of the Harvard Solomon Islands Medical-Anthropological expeditions of the late...  Read More >>

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A careful selection from the work of the greatest living ethnographer of the Pacific Northwest.  Read More >>

This book concerns the use of the drug qat in North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic), a country lying on the southwestern...  Read More >>

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What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in recent decades? Jonathan Rieder explores this question in...  Read More >>

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Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as "" ... Thus, it has been known for quite some time...  Read More >>

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Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu­ tions that the social sciences might...  Read More >>

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A catalogue that comprises the pottery from the Chimu culture. It is suitable as a working tool for scientists and...  Read More >>

This annotated bibliography, the first book-length survey of the historic development of inquiry in physical anthropology,...  Read More >>

Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively...  Read More >>

Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo...  Read More >>

Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as "" ... Thus, it has been known for quite some time...  Read More >>

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