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Product Description: Forget the old ideologies force-fed to us in our schools. They don't make sense and have failed us all for centuries. The warnings are sounding louder than ever. Throughout the world, violent maniacs claim control of our lives, amassing fortunes and evermore power at our expense...read more

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9781499333329 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 1, 2014, cover price $9.75 | About this edition: Forget the old ideologies force-fed to us in our schools.

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Product Description: The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict. Here at last is the eagerly awaited publication of a posthumous work by the man widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Vaupés Amazonian societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780231130219 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict.

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Product Description: The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict. Here at last is the eagerly awaited publication of a posthumous work by the man widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Vaupés Amazonian societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780231130202 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict.

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Product Description: On Providencia, a tiny island in the southwest Caribbean, the metaphor of "crab antics" is commonly used to illustrate the dynamics of social life. For Peter Wilson, who spent over a year on the island, crab antics became a key image in his attempt to identify and analyze the standards by which people judge each other's worth, and to explain how values of social differentiation provide a basis for social order...read more

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9780881338492 | Reissue edition (Waveland Pr Inc, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: On Providencia, a tiny island in the southwest Caribbean, the metaphor of "crab antics" is commonly used to illustrate the dynamics of social life.

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9780881336696 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, April 1, 1992), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: In this exciting new book the author of Man, the Promising Primate takes domestication as the starting point for his continued inquiry into human evolution. Peter J. Wilson believes that the most radical and far-reaching innovation in human development was this settling down into a built environment, and he argues that it had a crucial effect on human psychology and social relations...read more

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9780300042436 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $30.00 | also contains Introduction to Nursing Research: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice

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9780300050325 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1991), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In this exciting new book the author of Man, the Promising Primate takes domestication as the starting point for his continued inquiry into human evolution.

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Speculates on man's specific evolution into the 'promising primate'--a paradoxical combination of endless potential and a vulnerable need to exchange promises and, thus, establish social, familial, and cultural ties

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9780300029888 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Speculates on man's specific evolution into the 'promising primate'--a paradoxical combination of endless potential and a vulnerable need to exchange promises and, thus, establish social, familial, and cultural ties

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Product Description: This is an anthropological study of a rubber tapping community in Jandram Hilir in Selangor, West Malaysia. Its main focus is how such a community interacts with the outside world. In its 171 pages the author looks at Malay villager stereotypes of outsiders, how villagers react to outside events, how the economics of the village governs its interaction with outsiders and the basis of social relations amongst the villagers themselves...read more

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9780875363226 | Human Relations Area Files, June 1, 1968, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This is an anthropological study of a rubber tapping community in Jandram Hilir in Selangor, West Malaysia.

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