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Rappaport: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Paperback
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  • Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Paperback
  • by Roy A. Rappaport
  • 535 pages, notes, references, index. 1999. A comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance and a study of its main component, ritual.

Reardon: Doing Your Undergraduate Project. Paperback
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  • Doing Your Undergraduate Project. Paperback
  • Denis Reardon
  • 264 pages. 2006. Doing an Undergraduate Project is a practical step-by-step guide to managing and developing a successful undergraduate project. The book covers all aspects of project management, explaining in a clear and structured way how to undertake a project and helping readers to identify and acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry out the research and writing.

Renfrew, Morley: Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Paperback
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  • Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Paperback
  • by Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley. xviii, 282 pages. 2009

Robben, Sluka: Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Second edition. Paperback
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  • Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader.
  • Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka (eds.)
  • Second edition, 2011. Paperback, 672 pages, 27 illustrations. Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.
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Robben: Death, Mourning, And Burial: A Cross-cultural Reader. Paperback
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  • Death, Mourning, And Burial: A Cross-cultural Reader
  • Antonius C. G. M. Robben 2005

  • Paperback, 336 pages, 246 x 173 mm

  • designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals. It serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying.
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Robbins, Lucas: New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century. Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective
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  • New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century. Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective
  • edited by Th. Robbins and Ph. Ch. Lucas
  • 376 pages. 2004. Examines the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent new religious movement scholars, this book provides insight into the challenges facing religion in the 21st century

Robbins: Political Ecology. A Critical Introduction. Paperback
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  • Political Ecology. A Critical Introduction. Series Critical Introductions to Geography. Paperback. Paul Robbins. 264 pages. 2004

Roberts: Hope and its Hieroglyph, A Critical Decipherment of Ernst Bloch's "Principle of Hope". (Studies in Religion, No 57). Paperback
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  • Hope and its Hieroglyph, A Critical Decipherment of Ernst Bloch's "Principle of Hope". Paperback
  • by Richard H. Roberts
  • xv, 248 pages, with introduction, index. 1990

Rockman, Steele: The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation. Paperback
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  • Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation. Paperback
  • Edited by Marcy Rockman, James Steele
  • 272 pages, 40 line drawings, 8 photos. 2003. This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process.

Rosaldo: Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Paperback
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  • Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia. Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Paperback
  • edited by Renato Rosaldo
  • ix, 228 pages. Map. 2003

Rothenberg: Hand's End. Technology and the Limits of Nature. Hardcover
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  • Hand's End. Technology and the Limits of Nature. Hardcover
  • David Rothenberg
  • 256 pages, bibliography, index, illustrated. 1993. This text offers a philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. The book examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of various philosophers

Rothenbuhler, Coman: Media Anthropology. Paperback
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  • Media Anthropology. Paperback
  • Eric W. Rothenbuhler and Mihai Coman
  • 368 pages. 2005. This is a state-of-the-art overview of anthropological approaches to the study of media. An international team of contributors identify the major concepts, methods and bibliography involved and provide examples of current research

Rouget: Music and Trance. A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession. Paperback
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  • Music and Trance. A Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession. Paperback
  • by Gilbert Rouget
  • xix, 395 pages, 8 half-tones. 1985

Roy: Some Trouble with Cows. Making Sense of Social Conflict. Paperback
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  • Some Trouble with Cows. Making Sense of Social Conflict. Paperback
  • by Beth Roy
  • 250 pages, with 3 maps. 1994

Rubel, Rosman: Translating Cultures. Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology. Paperback
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  • Translating Cultures. Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology. Paperback
  • edited by Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman
  • 320 pages, illustrations bibliography, index. 2003

Rupke: Religion of the Romans. Paperback
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  • Religion of the Romans.
  • Jorg Rupke
  • 2007. Paperback, 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations, 229 x 155 mm. Rupke gives a thorough and engaging account of the multiplicity of cults worshipped by peasant and aristocrat alike, the many varied rites and rituals daily observed, and the sacrifices and offerings regularly brought to these immortals by the population of Ancient Rome and its imperial colonies.
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Sahlins: Stone Age Economics. Paperback
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  • Stone Age Economics. Paperback.
  • By Marshall Sahlins
  • 368 pages. 2003. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most important and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the original affluent society. The book examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors.

Sahlins: The Western Illusion of Human Nature. Paperback
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  • The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of
  • Marshall Sahlins 2008

  • Paperback, 224 pages, 178 x 115 mm
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Sassower: Knowledge without Expertise. On the Status of Scientists. Paperback
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  • Knowledge without Expertise. On the Status of Scientists. Paperback
  • by Raphael Sassower
  • xvi, 158 pages. 1993

Saville-Troike: The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction. 3rd edition. Paperback
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  • Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction. Third edition. Paperback
  • by Muriel Saville-Troike
  • ix, 326 pages. This introduction presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others, and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work.

Scheper-Hughes: Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Paperback
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  • Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Paperback.
  • by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • xiii, 614 pages. 1993

Schiller: Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia
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  • Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia
  • by Anne Schiller
  • xii, 178 pages. 1997. This ethnographic study shows how the Ngaju Dyaks, rain forest dwellers of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) are responding to modernity. It depicts how they are attempting to fashion a modern identity for themselves, especially by remodelling their indigenous religion.

Schuurman: Globalization and Development Studies. Challenges for the 21st Century. Paperback
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  • Globalization and Development Studies. Challenges for the 21st Century. Paperback.
  • Frans J. Schuurman
  • viii, 212 pages. 2001

Schweitzer: Dividends of Kinship. Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. Paperback
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  • Dividends of Kinship. Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. Paperback
  • by Peter P. Schweitzer
  • 221 pages. 2000. This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.

Scott: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Paperback
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  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Paperback
  • by James C. Scott
  • 460 pages. 1998

Scott: Weapons of the Weak. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Paperback
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  • Weapons of the Weak. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
  • James C. Scott
  • 414 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, 234 x 150 mm, 640 grams
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Seale: Qualitative Research Practice, with Tim Rapley, Interviews. New edition. Paperback
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  • Qualitative Research Practice, with: Tim Rapley, Interviews. New edition. Paperback
  • Edited by Gobo, Giampietro, Gubrium, Jaber F., Seale, Clive, Silverman, David
  • 640 pages, illustrations. 2006

Segal: Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion

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  • Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion
  • Edited by Robert A. Segal
  • 496 pages. September 2008, in stock

Shafritz, Hyde, Parkes: Classics of public administration. Paperback
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  • Classics of public administration. Paperback
  • J.M. Shafritz, A.C. Hyde and S.J. Parkes
  • viii, 606 pages. 6th edition, 2007

Shah: In the Shadows of the State : Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Paperback
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  • In the Shadows of the State : Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
  • Alpa Shah 2010

  • Paperback, 288 pages, 20 illustrations, 238 x 151 mm

  • In the Shadows of the State brings together ethnographic and theoretical analyses to show that the local use of global discourses of indigeneity often reinforces a class system that harms the poorest people.
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Shore, Wright: Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power. Paperback
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  • Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power. Paperback
  • edited by Cris Shore and Susan Wright
  • xiv, 294 pages. 1997. The authors argue that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organization of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life

Shore: Elite Cultures. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
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  • Elite Cultures. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
  • Edited by Cris Shore and Stephen Nugent. 272 pages, 8 photos. 2002. Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North America and Africa, the contributors explore the inner worlds of meaning and practice that define and sustain elite identities.

Sillitoe: Participating in Development. Paperback
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  • Participating in Development. Paperback
  • Edited by Paul Sillitoe, Alan Bicker and Johan Pottier
  • 288 pages, 28 line drawings, 6 tables and 1 photo. 2002. This thought-provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations

Silva: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. Paperback
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  • How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
  • Paul J. Silva 2007

  • Paperback, 168 pages, illustrations, 202 x 130 mm
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Smithsonian Institution: Celebration. A World of Art and Ritual. Paperback
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  • Celebration, A World of Art and Ritual. Paperback, ca. 18x28cm
  • by the Smithsonian Institution Office of Folklife Programs
  • 214 pages, with numerous illustrations. 1982

Soto, de: The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism. New edition. Paperback
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  • Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism. New edition. Paperback
  • Hernando de Soto
  • xxxix, 273 pages. 2002. In this work on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies. In the preface, he makes the connection between the Shining Path in the 1980s and the Taliban.

Spyer: The Memory of Trade Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island. Paperback
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  • Memory of Trade. Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island.
  • by Patricia Spyer
  • 384 pages, 15 photographs, 3 maps. 2000. An ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Spyer’s study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres, the ‘Aru’ and the ‘Malay’.

Sridhar: Anthropologists Inside Organisations. South Asian Case Studies. Hardcover

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  • Anthropologists Inside Organisations. South Asian Case Studies. Hardcover
  • Devi Sridhar
  • 228 pages. 2008. In the past ten years there has been a shift in the field of anthropology towards working with and studying organisations. The book emphasises methodology and fresh empirical research. It also provides rich and detailed examples of how different researchers have managed to work within constraints imposed by organizations.

Staveren: The Values of Economics: An Aristotelian Perspective. Paperback
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  • Values of Economics: An Aristotelian Perspective. Paperback
  • Irene van Staveren
  • 256 pages. 2001. 2005. This volume argues that economics is, and always has been, about human values, which guide, enable, constrain and change economic behaviour

Stewart, Strathern: Landscape, Memory and History. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
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  • Landscape, Memory and History. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
  • edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
  • 246 pages. 2003

Stoler: Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Paperback
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  • Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Paperback
  • Ann Laura Stoler
  • 314 pagina's, illustrated, 2008. Examines the nature of colonial governance as seen through its archival habits and conventions, and in doing so offers a series of nuanced meditations on the nature of archives and the spirit with which students of empire should approach them.

Stollzoff: Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica
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  • Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica
  • by Norman C. Stolzoff
  • xxviii, 298 pages. 2000

Strassler: Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java. Paperback
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  • Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
  • Karen Strassler 2010
  • Paperback, 408 pages, illustrations, 235 x 152 mm
  • In "Refracted Visions", a copiously illustrated ethnography including more than thirty colour images, Karen Strassler argues that popular photographic practices such as these have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Contending that photographic genres cultivate distinctive ways of seeing and positioning oneself and others within the affective, ideological, and temporal location of Indonesia, she examines genres ranging from state identification photos to pictures documenting family rituals
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Struever: Koster. Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Paperback
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  • Koster. Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past. Paperback
  • By Stuart Struever and Felicia Antonelli Holton
  • 258 pages, 12 pages illustrations (Koster, Kampsville, Illinois)

Sutherland: Gypsies: The Hidden Americans
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  • Gypsies: The Hidden Americans
  • Anne Sutherland
  • 330 pages. 1975, 1986. The Gypsies portrayed in this book are the Vlax-speaking Rom, the largest group of Gypsies in the United States, numbering 500,000. Not officially recognized as a minority in the U.S. until 1972, Gypsies have led an almost entirely invisible existence here. Now in this fascinating work Sutherland has produced an in-depth look at the full range of everyday social life among the Rom.

Sutlive, Jr.: The Iban of Sarawak. Chronicle of a Vanishing World
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  • Iban of Sarawak. Chronicle of a Vanishing World
  • Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr.
  • 210 pages. 1988. The Iban are one of the bestdescribed societies of hill farmers in the world. This study analyzes the world of the Iban and demonstrates how an elaborate set of beliefs and rituals binds together the individualistic Iban into a strong community. The Epilogue describes the dramatic and wideranging changes occurring among the Iban—changes representative of similar developments in the lives of tribal people throughout the world

Tambiah: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality. Paperback
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  • Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality. Paperback
  • by Stanley J. Tambiah
  • 199 pages, 18 halftones. 1990. Dealing with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion, this book reviews the debates in Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the scientific revolution, reconsiders interpretative approaches to magic in anthropology and discusses rationality and relativism.

Taylor: Indonesia: Peoples And Histories. Paperback
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  • Indonesia: Peoples And Histories. Paperback
  • by Jean Gelman Taylor
  • xxi, 420 pages. 2004

Thomas: Refiguring Anthropology : First Principles of Probability and Statistics. Hardback
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  • Refiguring Anthropology : First Principles of Probability and Statistics. Hardback
  • by David Hurst Thomas
  • 532 pages. 1986. This volume’s lucid and lively style generates a working knowledge of statistical inference and cognate testing procedures. A practicing archaeologist, Thomas sets out to achieve the goal of producing a useful, readable text targeted specifically for students interested in the various sub-disciplines of anthropology.

Tilley, Spyer, a.o.: Handbook of Material Culture. Hardback
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  • Handbook of Material Culture. Hardback
  • Edited by Chris Tilley, Patricia Spyer, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler, Mike Rowlands
  • 576 pages, illustrations. 2006. 'It is a piece of material culture itself in which the 33 internationally-known authors (most are university professors) cast their net wide and get stuck into a richley-referenced set of studies, several of them illustrated'  British Archaeology