Category: Anthropology

Here is a thoroughly engaging history of one line of human science research and its consequences for the hapless, and often helpless, subject of study: the indigenous peoples of Tasmania. Research questions arising from skeletal remains were posed and pursued on the assumption that these vanishing forebears bore no relation to, nor had any intrinsic meaning for, aboriginal Tasmanians of today. The author finds these premises incorrect, exposing both the biases of research done for political ends, and documenting their galvanizing effect on high-profile native issues.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Diamond, Jared

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Viking Adult : December 2004

Seller ID: 59955

ISBN-13: 9780670033379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise. 250,000 first printing.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Diamond, Jared M.

Price: $10.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 1999

Seller ID: 82929

ISBN-13: 9780393317558

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunni...
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High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean

By: Freeman, Carla

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : March 2000

Seller ID: 61122

ISBN-13: 9780822324393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism--production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities--in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called "informatics." It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies. Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line i...
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (Lafcadio Hearn Collection)

By: Hearn, Lafcadio

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing : December 1989

Seller ID: 85721

ISBN-13: 9780804811453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This book introduces a world that few early Western visitors to Japan ever saw. This is the world of unusual customs, bizarre superstitions, and enchanting scenery. Included in this classic volume are Hearn's well-known essays on gardens, festivals, the household shrine, and other aspects of Japanese daily life.
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

By: Junger, Sebastian

Price: $13.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers : May 2016

Seller ID: 81371

ISBN-13: 9781443449588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today's returning veterans face in modern society.There are ancient tribal human behaviors-loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation-that flare up in communities during times of turmoil and suffering. These are the very same behaviors that typify good soldiering and foster a sense of belonging among troops, whether they're fighting on the front lines or engaged in non-combat activities away from the action. Drawing from history, psychology, and anthr...
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Plagues and Peoples

By: McNeill, William H.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor : January 1976

Seller ID: 83196

ISBN-13: 9780385121224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill expl...
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Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies

By: Mukerji, Chandra; Schudson, Michael

Price: $10.95

Publisher: University of California Press : September 1991

Seller ID: 33688

ISBN-13: 9780520068933

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rethinking Popular Culture selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries in a fresh and innovative fashion.Eclectic and wide-ranging, Rethinking Popular Culture includes works by authors in the humanities and social sciences. The essays touch on a variety of features of popular culture, from photography to fashion, romance novels to television, jokes to food habits.The editors' comprehensive i...
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The Kon-Tiki man: Thor Heyerdahl

By: Ralling, Christopher; Heyerdahl Thor

Price: $14.95

Publisher: BBC Books : January 1990

Seller ID: 83116

ISBN-13: 9780563209201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Maasai

By: Salvadori, Cynthia, Fedders, Andrew

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Collins : April 1973

Seller ID: 25850

ISBN-13: 9780002119474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures

By: Scholem, Gershom,Ottmann, Klaus,Corbin, Henry,Huyghe, Rene,Benz, Ernst,Zahan, Dominique,Izutsu, Toshihiko,Portmann, Adolf

Price: $31.95

Publisher: Spring Publications : May 2005

Seller ID: 85715

ISBN-13: 9780882145549

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Gershom Scholem's paper on "Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism" and Henry Corbin's paper on "The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology."
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Messages on Stone Selections of Native Western rock Art

By: Stokes, William Michael; Stokes, William Lee

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Starstone Publishing : 2002

Seller ID: 51170

ISBN: 281BQL1002628

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Samurai (Pelican books)

By: Varley, H. Paul

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Penguin : January 1974

Seller ID: 85693

ISBN-13: 9780140217940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Child and the Republic

By: Wishy, Bernard

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc : January 1972

Seller ID: 45184

ISBN-13: 9780812210262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Category: Anthropology