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Handbook - The Fortnightly Club for the Study of Anthropology (1898) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Routledge Studies in Anthropology Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide Book 13 (Hardcover)

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land air and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to... more

Studies in Anthropology and History The Textual Life of Savants Book 18 (Paperback)

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Case Studies in Anthropology Fulbe Voices: Marriage Islam and Medicine In Northern Cameroon (Paperback)

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

Pre-Owned Indigenous Peoples And Diabetes: Community Empowerment And Wellness (Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology) Paperback - USED

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Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology: Ó¦mie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature (Hardcover)

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta... more

Pre-Owned Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority Diaspora (Hardcover 9780812243031) by Ra anan S. Boustan Oren Kosansky Marina Rustow

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Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: Writing Anthropologists Sounding Primitives : The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict (Hardcover)

Writing Anthropologists Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing sound studies and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early... more

Pre-Owned Meaning Medicine and the Placebo Effect : 9 (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 9) Paperback

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Stuck inside my head: My autobiography based off of the studies of philosophy anthropology and psychology (Paperback)

KINDERGARTEN THE TEACHER HAD BEEN GIVING SEEDS FOR FLOWERS OUT TO THE CLASS. IT WAS SPRING RIGHT AFTER MY BIRTHDAY I GOT FORGET ME NOTS MY QUIET GENTLE EXTERIOR SUITED THESE LITTLE PURPLE BLUSIH FLOWERS SAD ON THE OUTSIDE BECAUSE FORGET ME NOT SHE SAYS... more

Pre-Owned With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson s Disease in America s Heartland (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Paperback

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Studies in Environmental Anthropology Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics: A Darrell Posey Reader (Paperback)

Darrell A. Posey who died in 2001 was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International... more

Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology (Paperback - Used) 0136050735 9780136050735

An essential supplement to a forensic anthropology text this reader provides case studies that demonstrate innovative approaches and practical experiences in the field. The book provides both introductory and advanced students with a strong sense of... more

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology: The Heart of the Pearl Shell : The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea the flow of pearl shells is the heart of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social... more

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology: Maring Hunters and Traders : Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (Series #8) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

This title is part of UC Press s Voices Revived program which commemorates University of California Press s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice reach and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893 Voices Revived... more

Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology: Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo: Sweetness Under Pressure (Hardcover)

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of �aghṭ translated as pressure or stress and another related... more

Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology: Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador (Paperback)

Investigating the efforts of the Kichwa of Tena Ecuador to reverse language shift to Spanish this book examines the ways in which indigenous language can be revitalized and how creative bilingual forms of discourse can reshape the identities and... more

Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology (Hardcover)

An essential supplement to a forensic anthropology text this reader provides case studies that demonstrate innovative approaches and practical experiences in the field. The book provides both introductory and advanced students with a strong sense of... more

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Law Anthropology and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things (Hardcover)

The product of a collaboration between leading theorists in law and anthropology this book develops an innovative analysis of legal practices. Specifically it focuses on how law constructs persons and things and develops new approaches to the question... more

Pre-owned Human and Divine Being : A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein Paperback by Wallenfang Donald; Cavadini John C. (FRW) ISBN 1498293360 ISBN-13 9781498293365

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Pre-Owned The Christian Vision of Humanity: Basic Christian Anthropology (Zacchaeus Studies: New Testament) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Other Tribes Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures (Paperback 9780521271974) by James a Boon

9780521271974. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 320. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Unspecified. Any interpretation of another culture is itself embedded in a specific cultural context and... more

Other Tribes Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures Histories Religions and Texts (Paperback)

Any interpretation of another culture is itself embedded in a specific cultural context and historical moment. In this book James A. Boon investigates the history dialectics and practice of the symbolic analysis of cultural diversity. His aim is to... more

Pre-Owned Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics): The Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Paperback

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General Anthropology DANTES / DSST Test Study Guide (Hardcover)

2023 Edition Our DANTES study guides are different! The General Anthropology DANTES/DSST study guide TEACHES you what you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just pages of sample test questions. Our easy to understand... more

Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology: Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology : Opened by the World (Hardcover)

Starting with the experience of wonder José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology one that posits a lifeworld saturated by an excessive Generosity and a primordial receptivity in humans through which they commune with are... more

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture : An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology Medicine and Psychiatry (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

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

Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality: The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers (Hardcover)

The place of Hilary of Poitiers in the debates and developments of early Christianity is tenuous in contemporary scholarship. His invaluable historical position is unquestioned but the coherence and significance of his own thought is less certain. In... more

Studies in Rhetoric and Culture: Astonishment and Evocation: The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology (Hardcover)

All societies are shaped by arts media and other persuasive practices that can awe captivate enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to... more

Anthropology: Documentary as Autoethnography: A Case Study Based on the Changing Surnames of Women (Paperback)

In a system where my identity that is to say my surname was taken from me when I got married an act supported by both the state and families I simply became a wife. When I refused both that stereotype and the marital surname I became curious about... more

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care: Knowledge Power and Practice : The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (Series #36) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

These original essays which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale the essays are based on research in historical and... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback) 089789233X 9780897892339

The world is fast becoming a global factory in which workers entrepreneurs and multinational corporations find themselves producing for the world capitalist market. This collection of original essays explores in concrete anthropological detail the ways... more

Studies in the Social and Cultural Found Language Culture and Society: Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology Book 23 (Paperback)

Language our primary tool of thought and perception is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others.... more

Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Decolonising the Study of Religion: Who Owns Buddhism? (Hardcover)

This book analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of Buddhism and will be of interest to Religious Studies Buddhism Japanese religions anthropology Asian Studies. more

New Departures in Anthropology: The Anthropology of Intensity (Hardcover)

What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies how... more

New Departures in Anthropology Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge (Hardcover)

In this provocative new study one of the world s most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches rather than threatens the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to... more

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion: The Anthropology of Protestantism (Hardcover)

Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism materiality economy language and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline... more

Body Soul and Life Everlasting : Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate Used [Paperback]

This widely acclaimed study of biblical anthropology is available once more along with a substantial new preface by the author. Fully engaged with theological philosophical and scientific discussions on the nature of human persons and their destiny... more