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| Leading anthropologist Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication and considers the concepts of space and time as tools for... With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.
The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past.... In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the...
"A vitally important contribution to anthropology. . . . Most importantly, although the critique is sharply directed, the tone of the volume... Informed by five years of fieldwork in Sudan, the author studies indigenous and "outsider" perspectives on the traditional practice of...
Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming,... In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious...
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies as relevant today as it was in 1934, Ruth Benedict"s groundbreaking study is the book that... In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author and scientist Hauser debates that the dominant view of moral judgment in humans is not that...
""Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics," in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal... "An Archaeology of Capitalism "offers an account of landscape and material culture from the later Middle Ages to the beginnings of the...
This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology... This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology...
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