Category: Anthropology

The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography

By: Agar, Michael H.

Price: ¥550

Publisher: US, Academic Pr : 1980

Seller ID: RWARE0000061687

ISBN-13: 9780120438501

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This edition of an introductory text opens with a chapter that brings ethno graphy up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numer ous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography , Agar shows how the fundamentals endure.
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The Rastafarians : sounds of cultural dissonance

By: Barrett, Leonard E.

Price: ¥500

Publisher: Boston, Beacon Press : 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000057993

ISBN-13: 9780807010273

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paradise Island -- Domination and resistance in Jamaican history -- Ethiopi anism in Jamaica -- Beliefs, rituals, and symbols -- An ambivalent routiniz ation -- Dissonance and consonance -- After Selassie : the Rastafarians sin ce 1975 -- Where go the Rastafarians?
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Anthropology and Modern Life

By: Boas, Franz

Price: ¥600

Publisher: US, Dover Publications : 1987

Seller ID: RWARE0000061675

ISBN-13: 9780486252452

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or eth nic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much mor e. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel. Editorial Reviews About the Author Franz Boas (1858-1942) was professor of anthropology at Columbia University.
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Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East In dies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-Europe

By: Boon, James A. A.

Price: ¥600

Publisher: US, University Of Chicago Press : 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000044666

ISBN-13: 9780226064635

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Examining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ideas and disciplines.
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Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

By: Good, Byron J.

Price: ¥650

Publisher: US, Cambridge University Press : 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000058954

ISBN-13: 9780521425766

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Medicine supposedly offers a scientific account of the human body and of il lness, and it follows that scientific medicine treats all forms of folk med icine as little more than superstitious practices. Professor Good argues th at this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical pr actice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing o n his own anthropological research in America and the Middle East, his anal ysis of illness and medicine explores the role of cultural factors in the e xperience of illness and the practice of medicine.
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Anthropologists and Anthropology

By: Kuper, Adam

Price: ¥1,170

Publisher: US,

Seller ID: RWARE0000063515

ISBN-13: 9780876639306

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Adam Kuper takes the story up to the present day, and a new final chapter t races the emergence of a modern European social anthropology in contrast wi th developments in American cultural anthropology over the last two decades .Anthropology and Anthropologists provides a critical historical account of modern British social anthropology.
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Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Int roduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Soc

By: Leach, Edmund

Price: ¥500

Publisher: US, Cambridge University Press : 1976

Seller ID: RWARE0000058953

ISBN-13: 9780521290524

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists,' and thei r different theories: the general incest theory and of animal sacrifice. Th is book is designed for the use of teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced wi th structuralist argument. It provides the prolegomena necessary to underst and the final chapter of Levi-Strauss's massive four-volume Mythologiques. Some prior knowledge of anthropological literature is useful but not essent ial. The principal ethnographic source is the Book of Leviticus; this ...
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The Raw and the Cooked (Mythologiques)

By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Price: ¥8,000

Publisher: US, University Of Chicago Press : 1983

Seller ID: RWARE0000059234

ISBN-13: 9780060904418

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."-Natural History.
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The View from Afar

By: Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Price: ¥1,000

Publisher: US, University Of Chicago Press : 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000061689

ISBN-13: 9780226474748

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, includin g family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representa tion, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more than forty year s of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they we re thirty years ago. "Hardly a field remains untouched-sociobiology, linguistics, botany, geneti cs, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, mora lity, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wond erful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times th...
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Anthropology: A Human Science

By: Mead, Margaret

Price: ¥1,250

Publisher: U.S.A., D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INC : 1964

Seller ID: RWARE0000062523

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Anthropological Theory Today

By: Miller, James G. Carrier & Daniel

Price: ¥650

Publisher: US, Blackwell Publishers : 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000061677

ISBN-13: 9780745620237

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This important book makes a bold statement about the nature and value of an thropological theory at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Golden Road to Modernity

By: Nash, M.

Price: ¥700

Publisher: US, Univ of Chicago Pr : 1965

Seller ID: RWARE0000046360

ISBN-13: 9780226568607

Condition: Very Good

The Himalayan Woman: A Study of Limbu Women in Marriage and Divorce

By: Shirley Kurz Jones, Rex L.; Jones

Price: ¥500

Publisher: US, New York, New York, U.S.A. : 1976

Seller ID: RWARE0000055082

ISBN-13: 9780874843798

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Conformity and conflict : readings in cultural anthropology

By: Spradley, James P.

Price: ¥500

Publisher: New York, Longman : 1997

Seller ID: RWARE0000058957

ISBN-13: 9780673525109

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique

By: Vincent, J.

Price: ¥800

Publisher: US, Wiley-Blackwell : 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000061341

ISBN-13: 9780631224402

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critiq ue, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and conte mporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnot es, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students , scholars, and instructors alike. Editorial Reviews Review "The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power , colonialism, ...
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The Wisdom of Bones : In Search of Human Origins

By: WALKER, Alan and Pat SHIPMAN

Price: ¥500

Publisher: US, Phoenix : 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000061094

ISBN-13: 9781857998740

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles

By: Zellner, W. W.

Price: ¥600

Publisher: US, Worth Pub : 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000045567

ISBN-13: 9780312133177

Condition: Good

This updated text takes an interdisciplinary look at eight extraordinary gr oups of people throughout American history. Each chapter is organized aroun d a sociological principle which is then illustrated by a descriptive expla nation of the lifestyles of these unique groups.
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Category: Anthropology