Physical anthropology & ethnography books

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Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America

Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth...

Author: Jennifer Tilton
ISBN: 9780814783115
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Explores the complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American cities  Read More >>

Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of...

Author: Carole McGranahan
ISBN: 9780822347712
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Argues that some histories, including Tibetans armed resistance against the Chinese, are arrested, deliberately...  Read More >>

Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States

Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in...

Author: Barbara Ryan
ISBN: 9780252077753
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of...

Author: Carole McGranahan
ISBN: 9780822347514
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Argues that some histories, including Tibetans armed resistance against the Chinese, are arrested, deliberately...  Read More >>

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru...

Author: Kathryn Burns
ISBN: 9780822348689
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Kathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped...  Read More >>

The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism

The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights...

Author: Rose Ernst
ISBN: 9780814722480
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Offers an examination of how those working for change grapple with shifting racial dynamics  Read More >>

Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology

Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology...

Author: Douglas W. Owsley ,  Margaret A. Jodry
ISBN: 9781603442084
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The Arch Lake human burial site, discovered in 1967 in eastern New Mexico, contains the third-oldest known remains...  Read More >>

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru...

Author: Kathryn Burns
ISBN: 9780822348573
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Kathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped...  Read More >>

Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown Court Procedure

Adversarial Case-Making: An Ethnography of English Crown...

Author: Thomas Scheffer
ISBN: 9789004187269
Format: Hardback
$372.24

This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.  Read More >>

The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy

The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights,...

Author: Karen Engle
ISBN: 9780822347699
Format: Paperback
$71.15

An analysis of how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant legal framework for indigenous...  Read More >>

The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy

The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights,...

Author: Karen Engle
ISBN: 9780822347507
Format: Hardback
$250.67

An analysis of how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant legal framework for indigenous...  Read More >>

New Frontiers in Ethnography

New Frontiers in Ethnography

Author: Sam Hillyard ,  Christopher Pole
ISBN: 9781849509435
Format: Electronic book text
$364.98

Intends to address continuities and innovations within the ethnographic canon. This title uses Hammersley's (1991)...  Read More >>

Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human, in Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries, and Zoos

Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human,...

Author: Jon Cohen
ISBN: 9780805083071
Format: Hardback
$39.95

In the autumn of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome. The author offers an insider's...  Read More >>

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond...

Author: Mario Blaser
ISBN: 9780822345459
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects...  Read More >>

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Author: Richard Wrangham
ISBN: 9780465020416
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species  Read More >>

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

Author: Ken Ashwell, Bmedsc
ISBN: 9786612818004
Format: Electronic book text
$1108.80

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Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond...

Author: Mario Blaser
ISBN: 9780822345305
Format: Hardback
$237.47

An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects...  Read More >>

The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the...

Author: Roger Echo-Hawk
ISBN: 9781598745757
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This provocative book confronts the fallacy of race and American Indian racialism, and challenges us to move American...  Read More >>

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama ,  Derek Parker Royal
ISBN: 9780292737433
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of...  Read More >>

The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race

The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the...

Author: Roger Echo-Hawk
ISBN: 9781598745740
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This provocative book confronts the fallacy of race and American Indian racialism, and challenges us to move American...  Read More >>

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama ,  Derek Parker Royal
ISBN: 9780292722811
Format: Hardback
$89.95

Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of...  Read More >>

Electrical Dynamics Dendritic Space

Electrical Dynamics Dendritic Space

Author: Sergiy Mikhailovich Korogod ,  Suzanne Tyc-Dumont
ISBN: 9781282636965
Format: Undefined
$813.12

The authors explain how the whole dendritic arborization contributes to the generation of various output discharges...  Read More >>

Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan

Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity,...

Author: Gabriella Lukács
ISBN: 9780822348245
Format: Paperback
$60.59

An exploration of Japan s television culture focused on primetime serials called trendy dramas, popular primetime...  Read More >>

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