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Tristes Tropiques
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Tristes Tropiques

By Claude Levi-Strauss , Doreen Weightman (translator) , John Weightman (translator)

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Elderhood

By Louise Aronson ,

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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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Becoming Animal

By David Abram ,

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Stone Age Economics
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Stone Age Economics

By Marshall Sahlins ,

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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
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Money

By Felix Martin ,

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The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
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The Resonance of Unseen Things

By Susan Lepselter ,

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Stealing with the Eyes
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Stealing with the Eyes

By Will Buckingham ,

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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Gods of the Upper Air

By Charles King ,

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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan
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Revolution in Rojava

By Michael Knapp , Anja Flach , Ercan Ayboga

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Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax
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Do Parents Matter?

By Robert A. LeVine , Sarah LeVine ,

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New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Juan Altamiras
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New Art of Cookery

By Vicky Hayward ,

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The Anti-Witch
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The Anti-Witch

By Jeanne Favret-Saada , Matthew Carey (translator) ,

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The History of Emotions: An Introduction
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The History of Emotions

By Jan Plamper ,

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Home: How Habitat Made Us Human
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Home

By John S. Allen ,

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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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Breasts

By Florence Williams ,

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Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas
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Of Cannibals and Kings

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How Animals Grieve
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How Animals Grieve

By Barbara J. King ,

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Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos
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Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos

By Knud Rasmussen ,

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Europe and the People Without History
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Europe and the People Without History

By Eric R. Wolf ,

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Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City
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Rio de Janeiro

By Luiz Eduardo Soares ,

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Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos
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Fields of Desire

By Holly High ,

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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States
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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States

By Andrew Monson (editor) , Walter Scheidel (editor) ,

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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present
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Inside the Lost Museum

By Steven Lubar ,

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Father of the Rain
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Father of the Rain

By Lily King ,

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The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie
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The Archaeology of Race

By Debbie Challis ,

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Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks
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Economy of Words

By Douglas R. Holmes ,

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Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
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Best Practice

By Kimberly Chong ,

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The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
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The Gift

By Marcel Mauss , Ian Cunnison (translator) ,

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The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia
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The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia

By Bronislaw Malinowski ,

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The Rites of Passage
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The Rites of Passage

By Arnold Van Gennep , Monika B Vizedom (translator) , Gabrielle L Caffee (translator)

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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun
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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi

By A. Wilson ,

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Introduction to Anticipation Studies
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Introduction to Anticipation Studies

By Roberto Poli ,

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices
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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence

By Jennifer R. Wies (editor) , Hillary J. Haldane (editor) ,

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The Donkey in Human History: An Archaeological Perspective
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The Donkey in Human History

By Peter Mitchell ,

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Illegal Alien
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Illegal Alien

By Robert J. Sawyer ,

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Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues
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Beastly Questions

By Naomi Sykes ,

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Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion
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Emotional Worlds

By Andrew Beatty ,

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EcoMind
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EcoMind

By Frances Moore Lappé ,

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