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The animal connection
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Pat Shipman |
Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive--after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat--but in this he… |
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The body of the conquistador
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Rebecca Earle |
"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish Ame… |
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The Anthropology of experience
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Edward M. Bruner |
"Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative… |
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Anthropology
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Carol R. Ember |
This text provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the four fields of anthropology. The book helps students understand humans in all their variety and why such variety ex… |
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Cultural Anthropology
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Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms |
Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to skillfully explore and study today’s world. Readers will better understand social structures b… |
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The work of the dead
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Thomas Walter Laqueur |
"The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work o… |
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The Invention of Humanity
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Siep Stuurman |
665 pages : 25 cm |
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After ethnos
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Tobias Rees |
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others -- of how social structures se… |
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Magic, science and religion
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Bronislaw Malinowski |
In his handling of science, magic, and religion, Malinowski essentially accepted the traditional Western conception of a dual reality-the reality of the natural world, grounded in observation and rat… |
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Ethnography #9
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Alan Klima |
"ETHNOGRAPHY #9 looks at Thai spiritual and financial practices, and at the relationship of these local practices to global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value. Through his examination of mone… |
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De la tente à la ville
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Rahal Boubrik |
"La société sahraouie était, durant des siècles, une société nomade. Or, un passage de la tente à la maison en ville s'est amorcé à partir du milieu du siècle dernier pour prendre forme à la fin des … |
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Male and female
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Margaret Mead |
The substance of this book was given as the Jacob Gimbel lectures in sex psychology under the auspices of Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, California, November, 19… |
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