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MacClancy: Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Paperback
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  • Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Paperback
  • edited by Jeremy MacClancy. 456 pages. 2002
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MacIntyre: A Short History of Ethics. A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. Paperback

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  • Short History of Ethics. A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. Paperback
  • A. Alasdair MacIntyre. xx, 273 pages. 2002. To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development.

Mahdi: Crossroads. The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage. Paperback
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  • Crossroads. The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage. Paperback
  • edited by Louise Mahdi / Christopher Carus / Nancy Geyer / Michael Meade
  • 452 pages. 1996

Malinowski: Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
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  • Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
  • by Bronislaw Malinowski
  • xxxii, 527 pages, many illustrations. 1922, reprint. This volume can be considered the founding document of economic anthropology, and remains the best one to read. It emphasizes the great significance of primitive economics by singling out the notable exchange system of the Trobriand Islands for special consideration.

Manor: Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States. Paperback
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  • Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States. Paperback
  • edited by James Manor
  • xviii, 301 pages. 2006. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states.

Mariampolski: Ethnography for Marketers. A Guide to Consumer Immersion. Paperback
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  • Ethnography for Marketers. A Guide to Consumer Immersion. Paperback
  • Hy Mariampolski
  • 264 pages. 2006. Ethnography for Marketers is designed as a standard training and reference resource to help corporate managers and marketers design and implement ethnographic studies. It is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying ethnography or research methods in a variety of programs including business, sociology, anthropology and education.

Marsden: Fundamentalism and American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. Paperback
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  • Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925
  • George M. Marsden. 2nd rev. ed. 2006
  • Paperback, 368 pages, Line drawings and halftones, 234 x 156 mm
  • For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that.
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Maury: Indigenous Races of the Earth. Cloth
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  • Indigenous Races of the Earth. Including monographs on special departments of philogy, iconography, cranioscopy, paleontology, pathology, archaeology, comp. geography, and natural history.
  • by Alfred Maury, J. Aitken Meigs, Francis Pulszky
  • 656 pages, with maps, many illustrations. Reprint of the 1857? edition. Published in India, looks very old. Reduced price. Not able to deliver a better copy

Mauss: The Gift. The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Paperback
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  • Gift. The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Paperback
  • by Marcel Mauss
  • 164 pages, notes, indexes. 2001. When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory

Mauss: The Gift. The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Paperback
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  • Gift. The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Paperback
  • by Marcel Mauss
  • xviii, 164 pages, names & sunject indexes. 1990, reissued 2000. When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory

McAlister: Rara! Voudo, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora. Paperback, includes a 24-track CD
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  • Rara! Voudo, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora. Paperback, includes a 24-track CD
  • by Elizabeth McAlister. 248 pages. 2002. Rara is an annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of Vodou march into public space to take an active role in politics. Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered and transnational dimensions

McIntosh: Beyond Chiefdoms. Pathways to Complexity in Africa. New edition. Paperback
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  • Beyond Chiefdoms. Pathways to Complexity in Africa. New edition. Paperback.
  • Susan Keech McIntosh
  • x, 176 pages, with 7 tables, 15 figures, 12 maps. 2005. Introduces an African perspective on archaeological theorizing about complex societies.

McManners: The Oxford History of Christianity. 2nd edition. Paperback
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  • Oxford History of Christianity. 2nd edition. Paperback
  • John McManners
  • 778 pages, Illustrations chronology, index. 2002. An account of Christianity in all its historical and geographical diversity. This book traces the growth and development of Christianity from the earliest communities of believers to a world religion whose adherents number over 2000 million

McManners: The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. 2nd edition. Paperback
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  • Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. 2nd edition. Paperback
  • John McManners.
  • xi, 724 pages, with illustrations, chronology, index. 1990, 2001. An account of Christianity in all its historical and geographical diversity. This book traces the growth and development of Christianity from the earliest communities of believers to a world religion whose adherents number over 2000 million

McRobbie: The Aftermath of Feminism. Gender, Culture and Social Change. Paperback
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  • Aftermath of Feminism. Gender, Culture and Social Change. Paperback
  • Angela McRobbie. Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
  • 192 pages

Meskell: Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present. Paperback
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  • Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present. Paperback
  • by Lynn Meskell
  • xii, 248 pages, with 30 illustrations. 2004. Drawing on a wide range of objects, artefacts and artwork, from the Valley of the Kings to Las Vegas, the author provides an analysis of the aesthetics of ancient Egyptian culture and looks into some of its more intriguing mysteries, including our ongoing fascination with it.

Metcalf: They Lie, We Lie. Getting on with Anthropology. Paperback ( Borneo )
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  • They Lie, We Lie. Getting on with Anthropology. Paperback ( Borneo )
  • Peter Metcalf
  • 168 pages, 13 photos. 2001. In the spirit of the award-winning Getting to Know Waiwai, They Lie, We Lie is a thoughtful and entertaining warts-and-all account of ethnographic fieldwork. Metcalf transforms his book into an engaging and readable book by focusing on his relationship with a particular difficult, aristocratic and influential Lelak woman - Kasi.

Meyer, Pels: Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Paperback
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  • Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Paperback
    edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels. viii, 390 pages. 2003
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Miethe, Deibert: Fight Time. The Normative Rules and Routines of Interpersonal Violence
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  • Fight Time. The Normative Rules and Routines of Interpersonal Violence
    Terance D. Miethe and Gini R. Deibert
  • 157 pages. 2007. Violence has been and continues to be a central feature of U.S. society. Although the contexts for violence vary substantially, interpersonal aggression is incredibly patterned in social characteristics, such as time, place, offender/victim profiles, and in the rules of engagement that underlie its initiation, escalation, and desistance in anger-provoking situations.

Migdal: State in Society. Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another. Paperback
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  • State in Society. Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another. Paperback
  • by Joel Migdal
  • 304 pages. 2001

Mitchell: Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Paperback
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  • Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Paperback
  • by Timothy Mitchell
  • xiii, 413 pages. 2002

Mol: Globalization and Environmental Reform. The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy. Paperback
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  • Globalization and Environmental Reform. The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy. Paperback
  • Arthur P.J. Mol. 214 pages. 2001. In this book Arthur Mol seeks to provide a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality

Monaghan, Just: Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Paperback
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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Paperback
  • by John Monaghan and Peter Just. 176 pages, halftones, line drawings. 2000

Morley: Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches
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  • Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches. Paperback
  • Neville Morley
  • 256 pages. 1999. This work provides a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject. Topics include democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality

Morris: Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Paperback
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  • Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Paperback
  • Ian Morris
  • 284 pages, 48 diagrams, 12 tables. 1992. Shows how the excavated remains of burials are a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

Morris: Religion and Anthropology. A Critical Introduction. Paperback
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  • Religion and Anthropology. A Critical Introduction. Paperback
  • Brian Morris.
  • 360 pages. 2006. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists. Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism.

Moser: Encounters with Violence in Latin America . Paperback
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  • Encounters with Violence in Latin America . Paperback
  • Caroline Moser, Cathy McIlwaine
  • 288 pages, 69 line drawings. 2003. Latin America is one of the world's fastest developing regions, yet also a hub area for crime and violence, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. Drug crime, robbery, international trafficking, gang violence and domestic violence destabilise countries' economies and harm their people and social structures

Mosse: Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Paperback
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  • Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Paperback
  • by David Mosse. xvii, 315 pages. 2005

Munck: Contemporary Latin America. Paperback
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  • Contemporary Latin America. Paperback
  • by Ronaldo Munck
  • xvi, 198 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables, 2 maps. 2003. Lands and Peoples - Historical Context - Political Economy - Political Governance - Social Patterns - Social Movements - Cultural Politics - Latin America in a Changing World - Futures Imperfect?

Nayar: The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology. Paperback
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  • The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology
  • Pramod K. Nayar 2010
  • Paperback, 568 pages, illustrations, 245 x 172 mm
  • Explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space
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Nederveen Pieterse: Development Theory Deconstructions/Reconstructions. Paperback
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  • Development Theory Deconstructions / Reconstructions. Paperback
  • Jan Nederveen Pieterse. xviii, 252 pages. 2nd edition, 2009 / 2010
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Nincic: Renegade Regimes. Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics. Paperback
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  • Renegade Regimes. Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics. Paperback
  • by Miroslav Nincic
  • viii, 219 pages. 2007. He argues that comprehensive economic sanctions can lead to a restructuring of the renegade regime's ideology and economy that ultimately strengthens its grip on power.

Nolan: Development Anthropology: Encounters in the Real World
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  • Development Anthropology: Encounters in the Real World
  • by Riall W. Nolan
  • 345 pages. 2002. Nolan explains how anthropology is used in international development projects to people who are or intend to be active in planning and carrying out programs of directed change in culturally diverse environments. He argues that the development industry is at present ill-equipped to manage the demands of sustained and focused cross-cultural collaboration, and sets out to help change that

O'Reilly: Key Concepts in Ethnography. Paperback
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  • Key Concepts in Ethnography. Paperback
  • Karen O'Reilly
    240 pages. 2008. At last, an accessible, authoritative, non-nonsense guide to the key concepts in one of the most widely used methodologies in social science: Ethnography

Osterhammel: Globalization: A Short History. Paperback
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  • Globalization: A Short History. Paperback
    by Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson. Translated by Dona Geyer
    xi, 182 pages. 2005 (paperback 2009)
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Ostrom: Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Paperback
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  • Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
  • Elinor Ostrom. Nobel prize winner 2009!
  • Paperback, 298 pages, 20 b/w illus. 6 tables, 228 x 152 mm

  • The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons.
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Pagden. European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. Paperback
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  • European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. Paperback
  • by Anthony Pagden
  • 224 pages. 1994. After Columbus discovered America Europeans wondered how the discovery of the New World would affect them. In this book the author examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans interpreted their encounters with America

Panter-Brick: Hunter-Gatherers. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Paperback
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  • Hunter-Gatherers. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Paperback
  • Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton and Peter Rowley-Conwy, editors
  • 360 pages, some tables, glossary, index. 2001. Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume.

Parkin: Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Paperback
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  • Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Paperback
  • edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone
  • xiii, 479 pages, with glossary and index. 2004

Parkin: Palms, Wine, and Witnesses, Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community
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  • Palms, Wine, and Witnesses, Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community. Paperback
  • by David J. Parkin
  • 113 pages. 1994. This well-known, theoretically informed ethnography continues to offer a valuable examination of economic development among the Giriama of Kenya.

Peacock: The Anthropological Lens. Harsh Light, Soft Focus. 2nd Edition. Paperback
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  • Anthropological Lens. Harsh Light, Soft Focus. 2nd Edition. Paperback
  • James L. Peacock. 174 pages. 2002. It includes new topics such as globalization, gender and postmodernism, and reflects recent changes in perspective and language.

Pearson: Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Ritual, Sex and Magic. Paperback
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  • Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Ritual, Sex and Magic. Paperback
  • by Joanne Pearson
  • 192 pages. 2007. What is Wicca?  Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'?

Peters: The Politics of Bureaucracy. Paperback
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  • Politics of Bureaucracy. Paperback, 25x18cm
  • B. Guy Peters. xii, 388 pages. The fifth edition of this comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. Written by a leading authority in the field. New: a new chapter on administrative reform, more material on administration in developing countries, more coverage of the European Union and more discussion of international bureaucracies revision and up-dating to take into account the wealth of new literature that has emerged in recent years.

Petersen: Understanding Ethnic Violence. Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Paperback
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  • Understanding Ethnic Violence. Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Paperback
  • Roger D. Petersen
  • 312 pages 4 line diagrams 11 tables. 2002. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Peters-Golden: Culture Sketches. 3d edition. Paperback
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  • Culture Sketches. 3d edition. Paperback
  • by Peters-Golden
  • 288 pages. 2001

Piot: Remotely Global. Village Modernity in West Africa. Paperback
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  • Remotely Global. Village Modernity in West Africa. Paperback
  • Charles Piot. xiv, 226 pages, with 12 halftones, 2 maps. 1999

Ploeg v.d.: The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization. Paperback
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  • New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and
  • Globalization. Paperback. By Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg. 2009
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Price: Co-Wives and Calabashes. Paperback
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  • Co-Wives and Calabashes. Paperback
  • by Sally Price
  • xxxi, 224 pages. 1993

Price: Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa. Paperback
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  • Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa. Paperback
  • Richard Price
  • 402 pages, 17 halftones, 5 maps. 2008. This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century.

Rabinow: Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Paperback
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  • Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Paperback
  • by Paul Rabinow. Edition 13. 2007