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A Far Corner: Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on T...
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Genghis Khan The Emperor Of All Men
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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My Life as an Indian: The Story of a red Woman and a White man in The Lodges of The Blackfeet
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Chinese Girl in the Ghetto
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a ...
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My Butch Career: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while...
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The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $13.98 - Original price $13.98Original price $13.98$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the 1950s, anthropologist Colin Turnbull lived among the pygmies of the Congo river for three years - this is his account of life among the trib...
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The Structure of Days Out: With storytellers, hunters and their descendants in a Native Alaskan Community, 1973-1981
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Tom Lowenstein taught English in London and at Northwestern University between 1965 and 1974 . He first went to Tikigaq in 1973 and returned there ...
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From Superman to Man
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A classic work of fiction from the Harlem RenaissanceJoel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against th...
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hi...
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A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth...
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The Loneliness Files
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites...
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Patterns Of Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." — New York TimesA remarkable introd...
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against huma...
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first d...
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united cult...
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Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious ...
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, educat...
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Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial worldIn Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians...
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Tristes Tropiques
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropologyThis watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for "a hu...
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Unraveling Time: Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after chang...
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Your Black Friend Has Something to Say: A Memoir in Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Your Black Friend Has Something To Say is a powerful debut and an intimate examination of race and identity. For thirty years Melva Graham has live...
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Five Modern No Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Five No plays--one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world--from one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers. - "Mis...
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Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY in the Americas puts texts from English and French Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia, and the Uni...
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Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition group...
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