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| Pre-Owned The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method Paperback Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method (Paperback - Used) 0897895169 9780897895163 This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging creativity and ideology. Originally cited in IAmerican Anthropologist R as must reading for all... more | $9.96 $8.77 FREE shipping go to store |
| From the Preface by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine psychiatry and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered... more | go to store |
| Prescribing Faith : Medicine Media and Religion in American Culture more | FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780393052015. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 320. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. In the tradition of The Culture of Narcissism and Listening to Prozac a resonant exploration of the paradoxes of... more | $8.68 $6.74 FREE shipping go to store |
| Though sharing many terms of debate Fulbe persons passionately argue about Muslim ideals and pagan practices about Fulbe tradition and national reform and about local histories and global flows. In Fulbe culture social worlds are articulated and... more | $51.37 $41.59 FREE shipping go to store |
| Snakes in American Culture: A Hisstory (Paperback) The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences. Little has been published about them in the fields of popular culture or the history of medicine. Focusing primarily on American culture and history from the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries (Hardcover) In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed... more | go to store |
| Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine (Paperback) Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| 9781894974868. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Pages: 192. 192 p. B/w photos. For almost three decades Edward Curtis photographed the First Peoples of the North American West and studied their cultures. As part of his fieldwork he cruised the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their right to die -initially by refusing medical treatment and... more | $37.95 $29.95 go to store |
| Technical Knowledge in American Culture : Science Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s more | $30.95 $20.69 FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780817307936. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 280. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 280 p. History of American Science and Technology. This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| In this pathbreaking study Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. From the 1893 World s Fair to Body Shop advertisements di Leonardo focuses on the intimate and shifting relations between popular... more | $136.17 $129.15 FREE shipping go to store |
| Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more | $35.65 $15.96 FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780806128085. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 430. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 430 p. These essays explore the blending of structural and historical approaches to American Indian anthropology... more | $24.95 $10.78 FREE shipping go to store |
| Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings... more | $6.08 $5.15 FREE shipping go to store |
| Indians and Anthropologists : Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology (Paperback) In 1969 Vine Deloria Jr. in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later anthropologists have become more sensitive... more | $24.95 $22.95 go to store |
| Medicine as Culture: Illness Disease and the Body (Paperback) Medicine as Culture has become the classic text for the sociology of health and illness combining perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology anthropology social history and cultural studies. The books teases out how... more | $60.76 $46.98 FREE shipping go to store |
| Communicating Disease focuses on the intersections of literature and medicine. It unravels the intricate entanglement of culture and disease and is devoted to the representation of life through medical narratives exploring its value to both the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| In the 1930s a party led by Professor W. C. Holden led these investigations into the Yaqui Native American tribes of Sonora Mexico revealing much about their culture and characteristics. Noting a relative absence of Yaqui studies in Native American... more | $16.62 $11.98 go to store |
| Foundations of Anthropology: Science of Culture PB: A Study of Man and Civilization (Paperback) Leslie White was one of the most important and controversial figures in American anthropology. This classic work initially published in 1949 contains White s definitive statement on what he termed culturology. In his new prologue to this reprint of the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Gramsci Culture and Anthropology (Edition 1) (Paperback) In the last twenty years Antonio Gramsci has become a major presence in British and American anthropology especially for anthropologists working on issues of culture and power. This book explores Gramsci s understanding of culture and the links between... more | $33.20 $30.54 go to store |
| Since 1965 West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that... more | $36.95 $32.01 FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780822959250. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 296. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Composition Literacy and Culture. American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance presents an original critical and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| From self-help books and nootropics to self-tracking and home health tests to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology medicine and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (Paperback) The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality Muncie Indiana-in the mid-1920s using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740) these works... more | $32.00 $30.00 FREE shipping go to store |
| Pre-Owned Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (Paperback) 0156595508 9780156595506 The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality Muncie Indiana-in the mid-1920s using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740) these works... more | $5.45 $4.87 FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780801480997. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Within a society that long considered lesbian motherhood a contradiction in terms... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Anthropology of the Sacred: Native American Religions of Central and South America (Hardcover) The New World came into being in the Europeans encounter with the indigenous religions and cultures of Central and South America. Yet these religions remain little known or are filtered through inadequate categories such as animism superstition or... more | $144.59 $48.93 FREE shipping go to store |
| 9780226472645. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 464. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Unspecified. Women in Culture and Society. Attempting to define the exotic this text focuses on the shifting... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Interplay Arts + History + Theory: Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (Paperback) Tribal art has been one of the greatest inspirations for twentieth-century Western artists. Picasso Matisse Ernst and Brancusi responded in unforgettable ways to masks sculpture and other forms of indigenous African Oceanic and American art. The... more | go to store |
| Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Paperback) New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations there was hardly any mention of the fact that for the majority... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (Hardcover) Josephine McDonagh examines the concept of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by analyzing texts drawn from economics philosophy law and medicine as well as literature. McDonagh highlights the ways in which child... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Hardcover) New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations. During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations there was hardly any mention of the fact that for the majority... more | $88.00 $81.00 FREE shipping go to store |
| Race Language and Culture (Paperback) This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book Race Language and... more | $56.91 $49.29 FREE shipping go to store |
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