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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304
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Publication Date: 2008-11-18
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: As cultures and languages disappear from the Earth at a shocking rate, it becomes all the more urgent for us to know and value the world’s many ethnic identities. National Geographic’s Book of Peoples of the World propels that important quest with concern, authority, and respect. Created by a team of experts, this hands-on resource offers thorough coverage of more than 200 ethnic groupssome as obscure as the Kallawaya of the Peruvian Andes, numbering fewer than 1,000; others as widespread as the Bengalis of India, 172 million strong. We’re swept along on a global tour of beliefs, traditions, and challenges, observing the remarkable diversity of human ways as well as the shared experiences. Spectacular photographs reveal how people define themselves and their worlds. Specially commissioned maps show how human beings have developed culture in response to environment. Thought-provoking text examines not only the societies and the regions that produced them, but also the notion of ethnicity itselfits immense impact on history, the effects of immigration on cultural identity, and the threats facing many groups today. Threading through the story are the extraordinary findings of the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Projecta research initiative to catalog DNA from people around the world, decoding the great map of human migration embedded in our own genetic makeup.
At once a comprehensive reference, an appreciation of diversity, and a thoughtful look at our instinct to belong, this uplifting book explores what it means to be human and alive.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $29.70
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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hans Silvester
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09635
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Publication Date: 2008-04-28
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: An unprecedented series of images showing the Omo people's imaginative body decoration and embellishments.
The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia's Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years. The nomadic peoples who inhabit this valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips.
In this region of East Africa, the rivers that run through the dry savannas are home to abundant flowers, papyrus, and wild fruit trees, and this luxuriance becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. Within hand's reach, a multitude of plants inspire fanciful and ephemeral self-decoration, and the Omo react spontaneously: a leaf, root, seed pod, or flower is quickly transformed into an accessory. As in the West one might don a hat, people create caps from tufts of grass. As one would knot a tie or scarf, they ornament themselves with banana leaves or a stem laden with flowers. These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar's teeth, colorful feathers, and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made from powdered stone, plants, berries, and river mud.
Here is a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, climate change, and tourism. 160 color illustrations.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Zielenziger
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 952
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Publication Date: 2007-09-04
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s. Today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends, notably a population of more than one million hikikomori: the young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society. There is also a growing numbers of “parasite singles”: single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children.
In this trenchant investigation, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan's tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan's stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $20.36
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Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles William Merton Hart::Arnold R. Pilling::Jane C. Goodale
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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Edition: 3 Fac Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0899915
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Publication Date: 1987-08
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Reading Level: 179
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $20.35
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Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Annette B. Weiner
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Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09953
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Publication Date: 1988-01-04
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski’s classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century, provides a balanced view of the society from a male and female perspective, including coverage of new discoveries about the importance of woman’s work and wealth in the society.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.18
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Manufacturer: Ecw Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Penny Brown
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Publisher: Ecw Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745.40899915
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Publication Date: 2007-12-01
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Reading Level: 32
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Description: Beautiful and easy to reproduce, the designs in this collection are a rich source of inspiration for all craftspeople and artists. Despite the growing interest in aboriginal designs, no attempt has been made to make them accessible to the arts-and-crafts market. With this collection of decorative patterns, borders, and motifs, those needing ideas for a project will be able to duplicate or simply be inspired by the stunning designs in this book.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $39.67
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Manufacturer: Skira
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Claudia Antipina::Temirbek Musakeev
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Publisher: Skira
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2007-03-27
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Never before has a book of the costumes of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia been published in American or Western European literature. This lavishly illustrated volume features the work of eminent Russian anthropologist Claudia Antipina, who died in 1996 at the age of 92. Antipina was one of only a small number of Russian anthropologists who devoted their lives to research among the nomadic Kyrgyz, and she herself lived most of her life in Kyrgyzstan. The costumes and documentation in this volume represent a substantial body of research collected by Antipina during the years of her life in Kyrgyzstan, and have never before been published. The book is illustrated with the watercolor images by Temirbek Musakeev and the photographs of French/Argentinean photographer Rolando Paiva.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 968.83004961
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Publication Date: 1989-10-23
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization -- with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol -- swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own.
"The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing."
-- The Atlantic
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $21.14
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David N. Livingstone
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 202.2
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of non-Adamic humanity, and the debates surrounding it, from the Middle Ages to the present day. From a multidisciplinary perspective, Livingstone examines how this alternative idea has been used for cultural, religious, and political purposes. He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with science -- evolution in particular -- and was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation. From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racism, Adam's Ancestors tells an intriguing tale of twists and turns in the cultural politics surrounding the age-old question, "Where did we come from?"
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $23.86
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen L. Schensul
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001
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Publication Date: 1999-08-28
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Book Two of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with an introduction to participant and non-participant observation, interviewing, and ethnographically informed survey research, including systematically administered structured interviews and questionnaires. These essential methods are the basic building blocks of data collection, providing researchers with tools to answer key questions: What's happening in this setting?; Who is engaging in what kind of activities?; and Why are they doing what they're doing? The authors describe when and how to use these basic techniques and offer numerous examples of how these methods have worked in community-based research, action research, participant action research and mixed method projects.
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