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New Arrivals $18.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters David Westbrook $25.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips Roy Blount $21.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing Sarah E. Wagner $26.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Daniel L Everett $30.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture Fabio Parasecoli $36.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Of Matters Modern: The Experience of Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Debraj (edt) Bhattacharya $50.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Lisa Magarrell $42.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication Susan D. (edt) Blum $65.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Conquistadores de La Calle: Child Street Labor in Guatemala City Thomas A. Offit $28.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World (New Directions in Latino American Culture) Ruth (edt) Behar $14.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English John Mcwhorter $40.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures Wade Davis General The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) Your Price $16.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Sale Books Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest by Francoise Heritier Publisher Comments The sharing of a sexual partner between relatives has always been taboo. In this stunning work, anthropologist Franandccedil;oise Handeacute;ritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history, from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby Publisher Comments Continuing the journey begun in his acclaimed book The Cosmic Serpent, the noted anthropologist ventures firsthand into both traditional cultures and the most up-todate discoveries of contemporary science to determine nature's secret ways of knowing... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Anthropology to your inbox Cultural Anthropology Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Linguistics Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips by Roy Blount Publisher Comments Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em?—Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how... (read more) Your Price $25.00 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies North America 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to... (read more) Your Price $15.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Shamanism Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck Publisher Comments A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Central and South America Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Physical Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calender End-Date by John Major Jenkins Publisher Comments While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's galactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human... (read more) Your Price $20.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Ancient Egypt Exploring Ancient Egypt (Places in Time) by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of... (read more) Your Price $14.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Sub Saharan Africa Contraversions #13: The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia by Hagar Salamon Publisher Comments A fascinating ethnography of the Ethiopian Jews living in Israel and their memory of life among the majority Ethiopian Christians.... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Display African Ceremonies with CD (Audio) by Carol Beckwith Publisher Comments A newly designed, affordable one-volume edition of this definitive work on the traditional rituals of Africa, containing more than half the photos that were in the original edition plus new images that will focus fresh attention on specific ceremonies... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your Price $24.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies

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