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Price: $26.99
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Sale: $22.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128
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Publication Date: 2006-03-06
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for his annual course in anthropology, which he taught from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The lectures were published in 1798, with the largest first printing of any of Kant's works. Intended for a broad audience, they reveal not only Kant's unique contribution to the newly emerging discipline of anthropology, but also his desire to offer students a practical view of the world and of humanity's place in it. With its focus on what the human being 'as a free-acting being makes of himself or can and should make of himself,' the Anthropology also offers readers an application of some central elements of Kant's philosophy. This volume offers a new annotated translation of the text by Robert B. Louden, together with an introduction by Manfred Kuehn that explores the context and themes of the lectures.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $20.75
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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: $24.95
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Sale: $20.99
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanley Diamond
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301.2
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Publication Date: 1981-01-01
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Reading Level: 387
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Description: Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities -- a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. This brilliant, tough-minded book contains chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilization as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $23.82
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Louis Dumont
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 302.54
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Publication Date: 1992-02-15
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Reading Level: 294
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Description: Louis Dumont's Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective. The result of twenty years of scholarship and inquiry, the interrelated essays gathered here not only trace the genesis and growth of individualism as the dominant force in Western philosophy, but also analyze the differences between this modern system of thought and those of other, nonmodern cultures. The collection represents an important contribution to Western society's understanding of itself and its place in the world.
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Price: $15.98
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Sale: $12.90
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jacob Bronowski
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128
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Publication Date: 2002-10
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: With infectious enthusiasm and a gift for conveying the excitement of ideas, Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) discusses the impact of science on our sense of self and the need to reevaluate ethics in light of the scientific perspective. As both a practicing scientist and an author of books on poetry, he makes interesting connections between the uses of the imagination in science and in literature. Whereas science creates experiments to test hypotheses about the outside world, he notes that literature also provides "experiments" in poetry and prose, allowing readers to experience what it means to be fully human and relating the individual's inner life to that of every human being. Bronowski argues that a true humanistic philosophy must give equal place to the inner, subjective vision of the arts and the outer, objective perception of science since they are both products of one self-conscious creative imagination. In the final analysis, he emphasizes that these perspectives converge to reveal a more enlightened, universal ethics, one that fosters tolerance, mutual understanding, an appreciation of differences, and a sense that we all share a common destiny as human participants in nature's cosmic drama.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $21.00
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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: Robert L. Winzeler
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.6
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Publication Date: 2007-11-28
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this text covers what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they interpret or explain it. A key text for students of upper division courses in the anthropological study of religion.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $14.97
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Budiansky
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 636
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Publication Date: 1999-04-10
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, shows that domestication of animals is not an act of exploitation but a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy that has benefited humans and animals alike.
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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $27.75
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jr, George W. Stocking
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 1982-04-15
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Price: $10.95
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Sale: $33.75
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Manufacturer: Totem Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Boris Wiseman
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Publisher: Totem Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1998-02-25
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Reading Level: 175
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Description: Explores and illuminates the major contribution that Claude Levi-Strauss has made to contemporary aesthetic theory.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $12.90
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Erik Trinkaus
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 573.3
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Publication Date: 1993-01-19
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Reading Level: 454
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Description: A look at Neandertals, a phase of human evolution, discusses their qualities and how they were discovered, debated, studied, and analyzed over the years, describing the digs in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. 15,000 first printing.
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