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Listening to Sea Lions: Currents of Change from Galapagos to Patagonia

Our Bodies, Whose Property?

by Anne Phillips

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners...


Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History

by A. F. Robertson

'Greed' is a visceral insult. It jabs below the belt, evoking guilty sensations of gluttony and lust. It taunts the rich and powerful, penetrating the cover of modern ideologies and institutions. Today, old-fashioned...


The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account

by Jeremy Northcote

This book is based on the author's ten-year research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas. Through a detailed examination of the participants, issues, strategies and underlying factors that...


The Eurasian Miracle

by Jack Goody

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression...


Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

by T.R. Reid

Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or  The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge,...


Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

by Rachel Newcomb, David Crawford & Kevin Dwyer

Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of...


Refuge

by Adrie Kusserow

An anthropologist writes poems about globalization, culture, war, and fieldwork in South Sudan, Uganda, Botswana, and across the world.


Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World

by Solimar Otero

"Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World" explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana,...


Ecce Educatrix Tua: The Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary for a Pedagogy of Holiness in the Thought of John Paul II and Father Joseph Kentenich

by Danielle M. Peters

This book discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium. Peters highlights the Blessed Virgin Mary as educator...


The Archaeology of Disease

by Charlotte A Roberts & Keith Manchester

The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries that humans suffered from in antiquity. In order to give a vivid...


Neanderthal: Neanderthal Man and the Story of Human Origins

by Paul Jordan

Paul Jordan takes us on a vivid journey through the history of our most famous cousin in search of the origins of all mankind


Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration: Cross-Border Lives

by Susanne Wessendorf

Presenting rich empirical data gathered among second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy, and drawing on studies undertaken in other parts of Europe and the US, this book investigates why as...


Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

by Wyatt Bonikowski

Bonikowski examines how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed in novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf. Situating his study with respect...


Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space

by Annette N. Markham

Alienating for some, yet most intimate and real for others, emerging communications technologies are creating a varied array of cyberspace experiences. Nowhere are the new and old more intertwined, as familiar...


Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

by Dale Maharidge, Bruce Springsteen & Michael S. Williamson

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories,...


Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

by Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman & Katherine Ledford

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky...


Race and Racism: An Introduction

by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

In her newest book, anthropologist Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban examines the foundations of race in American society. She offers a simple and accessible explanation of the biology of race and a cross-cultural perspective...


Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures

by Victor de Munck

A concise methods book, Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures emphasizes that all methods are related as parts of a research design and must be chosen with respect to the larger research objective...


Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar & Jonas Salk

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors...