Physical anthropology & ethnography books

5929 books were found.

Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity...

Author: Zoila S. Mendoza
ISBN: 9780822341307
Format: Hardback
$152.95

Explores the early-twentieth-century development of the ""folkloric arts"" - particularly music, dance, and drama...  Read More >>

Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in...

Author: Laura Doyle
ISBN: 9780822341598
Format: Paperback
$54.95

A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded...  Read More >>

Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in...

Author: Laura Doyle
ISBN: 9780822341352
Format: Hardback
$202.95

A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded...  Read More >>

The Ascent of Man

The Ascent of Man

Author: Henry Drummond
ISBN: 9781604591811
Format: Paperback
$39.57

According to Drummond, most scientists concentrate on the struggle for life, but overlook what he calls the struggle...  Read More >>

Rethinking Ethnicity

Rethinking Ethnicity

Author: Richard P Jenkins
ISBN: 9781412935821
Format: Hardback
$436.00

Suitable for students of ethnicity and ethnic relations, this book draws on specific examples to demonstrate the...  Read More >>

Fundamentals of Zooarchaeology in Japan

Fundamentals of Zooarchaeology in Japan

Author: Akira Matsui ,  Matsui
ISBN: 9784876987351
Format: Hardback
$357.85

 Read More >>

Bodies and Voices: The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Bodies and Voices: The Force-Field of Representation...

Author: Merete Falck Borch ,  Eva Rask Knudsen
ISBN: 9789042023345
Format: Hardback
$409.20

A wide-ranging collection of essays centred on readings of the body in contemporary literary and socio-anthropological...  Read More >>

Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale

Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and...

Author: Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi ,  Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
ISBN: 9780252032677
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A tribute to Jane C Goodale, this work discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring,...  Read More >>

The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction,...

Author: Thomas H. Guderjan ,  L. Antonio Curet
ISBN: 9780817354268
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the architectural features. This work reveals what daily Maya...  Read More >>

The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction,...

Author: Thomas H. Guderjan ,  L. Antonio Curet
ISBN: 9780817315658
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the architectural features. This work reveals what daily Maya...  Read More >>

Contours of Culture: Complex Ethnography and the Ethnography of Complexity

Contours of Culture: Complex Ethnography and the Ethnography...

Author: Paul Atkinson ,  Sara Delamont
ISBN: 9780759107052
Format: Hardback
$142.95

In Contours of Culture the authors address practical and theoretical problems of using ethnographic methods in the...  Read More >>

Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean

Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in...

Author: Edward Simpson ,  Kai Kresse
ISBN: 9781850658696
Format: Paperback
$60.00

Compares and contrasts anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on...  Read More >>

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An...

Author: Mitchell Sedgwick
ISBN: 9780415446785
Format: Hardback
$315.00

 Read More >>

The Idea of English Ethnicity

The Idea of English Ethnicity

Author: Robert J. C. Young (Wadham College, Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781405101295
Format: Paperback
$68.95

In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness...  Read More >>

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from...

Author: Ginetta E. B. Candelario
ISBN: 9780822340379
Format: Paperback
$45.95

An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic...  Read More >>

The Idea of English Ethnicity

The Idea of English Ethnicity

Author: Robert J. C. Young (Wadham College, Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781405101288
Format: Hardback
$186.95

In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness...  Read More >>

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from...

Author: Ginetta E. B. Candelario
ISBN: 9780822340188
Format: Hardback
$170.95

An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic...  Read More >>

The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Community in Provincetown

The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and...

Author: Sandra L. Faiman-Silva
ISBN: 9780252075339
Format: Paperback
$71.99

An illuminating case study of sexuality and community  Read More >>

Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia

Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia

Author: Norman E. Whitten ,  Dorothea Scott Whitten
ISBN: 9780252074790
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian...  Read More >>

The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage...

Author: Paul D. McLean
ISBN: 9780822341000
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Writing letters to powerful people to win their favour and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief,...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List