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Is Peace Inevitable?: Aggression, Evolution, and Human Destiny
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Author: Santiago GenovesBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First U.K. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the interplay between human aggression and the potential for...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
The Flight of the Kingfisher
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Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical,...
Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora
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War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the...
Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
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Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the USA as a widely appealing cultural, artistic and social form. In this text, Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors...
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live-and How Their Wealth Harms Us
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you...
The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion
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Author: Weston La BarreBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First G.B. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book is a classic search for the origins of religion,...
The Last Cannibals
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Author: Jens Bjerre; Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow and Company, 1957, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Last Cannibals by Jens...
Prehistoric Man in the New World
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Author: Jesse D. Jennings / Edward NorbeckBinding: SoftbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1974, Sixth Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the origins and...
The Spears of Twilight: Life and death in the Amazon jungle
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The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone...
The Many Worlds of RH Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist
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The Egyptians
This is an account of the Egyptians from the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the present day. Egypt has the longest, continuous, known history of any country...
Who Prospers?: How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success
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Identity and Everyday Life
The notion of "everyday life" is ubiquitous in the contemporary intellectual scene. While scholars frequently use this concept to signal a romantic return to the "common people," Berger and Del...
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region The Mississippi Valley region has long played...
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately...
Primitive Man As Philosopher
Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux,...
The Making of Mankind
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Author: Richard E. LeakeyBinding: HardbackPublished: E.P. Dutton, 1981, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Making of Mankind offers Richard E. Leakey's insights into human evolution, focusing...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
China Wakes
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Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
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Author: Douglas NewtonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings It highlights the artistic richness found within small villages, showcasing works of art...
The Truth About Cinderella: Darwinian View of Parenting
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The Runaway Brain: The evolution of human uniqueness
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The Origin of Humankind
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Tikopia Ritual and Belief
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Author: Raymond Firthbinding: HardbackPublished: Beacon Press, 1967Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsImmerse yourself in the captivating world of Tikopia Ritual and Belief by...
The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft Across the Atlantic for 101 Days
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Author: Santiago Genovésbinding: HardbackPublished: Times Books, 1980Condition: book: Good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe Acali Experiment chronicles a daring social experiment conducted in 1973, where a diverse group...
Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon
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Author: Nicholas Guppybinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1958Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsWai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon is a work by Nicholas...
Black Kingdoms: Black Peoples
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Author: Anthony Atmore, Gillian Stacebinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis, 1985Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the rich heritage of West African civilizations and cultures. It...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
An Introduction to Political Communication
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Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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The Hunting Hypothesis
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Simply Human Beings
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The Making of Mankind
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The Way of Tradition
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Photography and Anthropology
Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Early anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in...
Aida
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The West Indies: The Lands and Peoples Series
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People in the Sun: The Native People of Australia and the Islands of the South West Pacific (SIGNED)
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The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Picture Atlas of the Peoples of the World
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