Physical anthropology & ethnography books

A tour of hoaxes, tricks and outrageous gimmicks, this book is the product of the American showman P. T. Barnum...  Read More >>

The story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground...  Read More >>

Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological...  Read More >>

Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality....  Read More >>

Includes full-page illustrations of works by more than fifty internationally recognized photographers  Read More >>

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today's world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive...  Read More >>

This edition, published in 1924, is an early work of scientific anthropology from a pioneer in the field. Haddon...  Read More >>

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An authentic picture of culture among young adults of colour  Read More >>

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The follow-up companion to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth (Cambridge, 1997), this volume focuses on applied...  Read More >>

Examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and...  Read More >>

Examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and...  Read More >>

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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the...  Read More >>

Although famous throughout Europe for his mind-reading skills, Stuart C. Cumberland (1857–1922) was a staunch critic...  Read More >>

'Pepper's Ghost' was a popular stage illusion in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be a precursor to...  Read More >>

By examining oral history collected during two years of fieldwork, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant investigates why...  Read More >>

Up-to-date and comprehensive, Transgenics in Endocrinology reviews the most recent developments in the analysis...  Read More >>

A detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalization...  Read More >>

This book is unique in its approach in that each chapter covers women in their everyday lives and the problems,...  Read More >>

What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five...  Read More >>

Dic fOl'tHl'hreitende Automatisienlllg Un; erel' 'l'echllik hringt e; mit sich, dal3 Fragen del':: teuerung und...  Read More >>