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A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal 1720-1994
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by Adrian Adams, Jaabe So, So Adams
Hardcover (August, 1997)
A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
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by Cai Hua
Hardcover (01 May, 2001)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Cai Hua's research raises fascinating questions about love: This is a marvelous work of research on a society (the Na, otherwise called the Moso) with fundamentally alternative traditions of family and sexual life.

A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit
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by A. Oscar Kawagley
Paperback (March, 1995)
All over the Map: Rethinking American Regions
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by Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, Peter S. Onuf
Paperback (January, 1996)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An admirable collection.: These four professors are at the top of the historical profession, and their thoughts on the regions in whose histories they specialize will fascinate any reader.

American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches
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by Patricia Seed
Hardcover (October, 2001)
Analyzing & Interpreting Ethnographic Data
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by Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane LeCompte
Paperback (19 August, 1999)
(2 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: That's It, I'm Outta Here....: This was the third installment of the "ETHNOGRAPHER'S TOOLKIT" series I have suffered through (against my will,

Anasazi America: 17 Centuries on the Road from Center Place
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by David E. Stuart
Paperback (July, 2000)
(9 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Serious Anasazi Interest: The Anasazi America is a book which answers the request for *more detail* about the Anasazi of the Chaco Canyon region.
Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States
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by Stephen L. Dyson
Hardcover (October, 1998)

Ancient Mesopotamia
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by Susan Pollock, Rita P. Wright
Paperback (01 May, 1999)
(3 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Through a glass darkly: I did not find the book as dry as the one reviewer did. The author is well informed and provides lots of interesting information as well as good bibliography.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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by Frank McCourt
Hardcover (September, 1996)
(1580 reviews) 4.47 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes."Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Anthropology of Real Life : Events in Human Experience
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by Philip Carl Salzman
Paperback (January, 1999)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Events of Our Lives: My introductory cultural anthropology students and I started reading this book in early September this fall.
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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by Bronislaw Malinowski
Paperback (March, 1984)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A classic: This is a real classic in the history of anthropology, published in 1922, and unlike another classic from the same decade,

Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings
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by Milton Bennett
Paperback (July, 1998)
(3 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A very mixed bag of articles to read with eyes wide open: "Basic Communications of Intercultural Communication" is a collection of thirteen essays on a variety of cross-cultural topics,
Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland,
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by Brigitte Jordan, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Paperback (January, 1993)

Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide
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by Andrea Olsen, John Elder
Paperback (November, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Body and Earth: Andrea Olsen's book wakes up your conscious being and brings back your connectedness to earth. It makes you grateful for gravity and the nature that surrounds you and you might begin to be in awe of yourself and others.
Body/Meaning/Healing (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
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by Thomas J. Csordas
Paperback (July, 2002)

Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs
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by Christopher Pinney
Paperback (March, 1998)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Ground-breaking, but leaves rough ground...: There are not many books or articles out there that treat the subject of photography in India in any sort of analytical fashion,
Children of the Forest: Africa's Mbuti Pygmies
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by Kevin Duffy
Paperback (December, 1995)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A well-written, easy to follow guide through another world: Kevin Duffy takes us to places we can only imagine in this book. He rarely skips any details as he describes his time with the Mbuti pygnies of the Congo,

Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience
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by Dusanka Miscevic, Peter Kwong
Hardcover (February, 2000)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An excellent work for students of Chinese American studies.: This weighty oversized title is a 'must' for any serious collection of ethnic history: Chinese Americans covers the immigrant experience for Chinese Americans,
Contemporary Field Research : Perspectives and Formulations
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by Robert M. Emerson
Paperback (20 March, 2001)

Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
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by Ruben Martinez
Paperback (07 September, 2002)
(42 reviews) 4.4 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Not since Ted Conover's Coyotes has a book revealed the underground culture of illegal immigration from Mexico as well as Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez. This up-and-coming author writes of what he calls "a Mexican Manifest Destiny" that continually pierces the southern borderline of the United States--a "line [that] is still more an idea than a reality."
Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global Systems
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by John H. Bodley
Paperback (01 July, 1999)

Culture Theory
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by David Kaplan, Robert A. Manners
Paperback (March, 1986)
Cultures under Siege : Collective Violence and Trauma
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by Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Naomi Quinn
Paperback (November, 2000)

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
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by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Paperback (July, 1999)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Constructing Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies: Looking at Western research practices from the 'underside' of a positivist paradigm deeply entrenched and diffused throughout public and private educational,
Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal State
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by Carol J. Greenhouse, Roshanak Kheshti
Paperback (November, 1998)

Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research
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by Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane LeCompte
Paperback (19 August, 1999)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: To The Point Skills Teaching: This text provides an excellent overview of the processes and considerations in good ethnographic research.
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
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by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet
Paperback (September, 1998)

Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria
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by Katherine J. Hagedorn
Hardcover (01 October, 2001)
(8 reviews) 3.12 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Extremely disappointing: It is hard to express how disappointed I was with Divine Utterances. To reiterate a previous review: lets hope that this is not the future of ethnography.
Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires
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by Stephen L. Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane Lecompte
Paperback (19 August, 1999)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Ethnographer in training Review: Over all, the book is well laid out, and the information is quite accessible. Example numbers and graphics set off the numerous case studies.

Ethnicity (Oxford Readers)
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by John Hutchinson, Anthony D. Smith
Paperback (December, 1996)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Amazingly Helpful: This book was an amazing aide in the writing of my research paper. It was great to get the ideas and point of view of som many different anthropologists.
Ethnographer's Toolkit: Using Ethnographic Data, Researcher Roles & Research Partnerships,
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by Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane LeCompte
Textbook Binding (06 October, 1999)

Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology
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by Lucien M. Turner, Stephen Loring, Robert Watt
Paperback (01 October, 2001)
Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa
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by Moustafa Gadalla
Paperback (01 August, 1999)
(10 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Egyptians and trans-atlantic slave trade.: "BLACK AMERICANS" READ THIS BOOK!!!! Gadella's work has exposed my patriarchal Ancient Egyptian roots.

Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
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by Carolyn Nordstrom, Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Paperback (January, 1996)
First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist
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by Barbara Gallatin Anderson
Paperback (November, 1989)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Class assignment worth rereading: This book offer alot of details on the anthro field and it was not just the techinical details but actually personal experiences that added a life-view to the profession.

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii
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by Haunani-Kay Trask, Hauani-Kay Trask, Haunani-Kay Trask
Paperback (June, 1999)
(8 reviews) 4.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: She's right. Get over it.: Trask's work, From a Native Daughter, is quite an interesting read. .... ... Trask's twelve page indictment of tourism as a form of cultural colonialism is both accurate and delivered with such fortitude that analytical opposition is virtually insurmountable.
From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on International
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by Jack David Eller
Paperback (January, 1999)

Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
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by Michael Burawoy, Joseph A. Blum, Et Al, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve H. Lopez, Sean Riain
Paperback (02 October, 2000)
Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology
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by H. Russell Bernard
Paperback (30 May, 2000)

Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health : Assessment and Treatment of Diverse Population
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by Israel Cuellar, Freddy Paniagua
Hardcover (March, 2000)
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'Ik Lives in Alaska Today
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by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Paul, II John, William Tyson
Paperback (July, 2000)

If I Am Not For Myself
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by Ruth Wisse
Paperback (August, 2001)
In the Metro
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by Marc Auge, Tom Conley
Paperback (October, 2002)

In the Society of Nature : A Native Ecology in Amazonia
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by Philippe Descola, Meyer Fortes, Edmund Leach, Jack Goody, Stanley Tambiah
Paperback (January, 1997)
Interpretive Ethnography : Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century
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by Norman K. Denzin
Paperback (January, 1997)

Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal
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by Laura M. Ahearn
Paperback (November, 2001)
Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study
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by Conrad M. Arensberg
Paperback (November, 1988)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Old School Anthropology: I may be a young and aspiering anthropologist, but for one of my classes we were requested to read this ethnography.

Kafr El-Elow: Continuity and Change in an Egyptian Community
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by Hani Fakhouri
Paperback (May, 1987)
Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts
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by Daniel Byman
Paperback (March, 2002)

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