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9781590515938 | Other Pr Llc, March 17, 2015, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different...read more

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9780226178790 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 8, 2014, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.

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9780226178820 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 8, 2014, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.

The American anthropologist recalls the people and events of her childhood and early career, revealing the major influences on her private and public life.

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9781465422989 | Dk Pub, June 30, 2014, cover price $14.99
9780317600650, titled "Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.25 | also contains Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years | About this edition: The American anthropologist recalls the people and events of her childhood and early career, revealing the major influences on her private and public life.

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9781465422972 | Dk Pub, June 30, 2014, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Sheamus debuted in 2009, and quickly established himself as one of the most dominant Superstars of his generation.

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Product Description: This volume celebrates the life and work of Robin Fox and the idea of a biosocial science. From his early studies of kinship, primates, the brain, evolution, the incest taboo, and aggression, to his later work on literature, politics, civilization, law, the Bible, Shakespeare, and the history of ideas, Robin Fox inspired many with an evolutionary vision of humanity that goes beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries and embraces the “universal history of mankind...read more
By Michael Egan (editor)

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9781412853774 | Transaction Pub, May 22, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This volume celebrates the life and work of Robin Fox and the idea of a biosocial science.

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Product Description: "I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds. Around me fell the shadow of the viaduct that carried a highway over the railroad yards. From the edge of the yards, I squinted as I watched the railroad cars being switched from track to track...read more

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9780670603190 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo

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9780140095500 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1985), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo

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9781596006034 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 25, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "I crouched quietly in the patch of tall weeds.
9781596006041 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 25, 2005), cover price $39.25

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9781587886751 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.
9781587886775 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.
9781587886768 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2001), cover price $78.25 | About this edition: Offers a personal account of the author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes and presents a factual glimpse into the world of the modern-day hobo.

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Product Description: This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago. It presents a major reevaluation of Starr’s place as the missionizer of anthropology, illuminates the consequences of the professionalization of anthropology, and yields a greater understanding of the United States as it moved into a position of global power...read more

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9780759120976 | Altamira Pr, November 8, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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Product Description: Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother’s and daughter’s separate perspectives of their experiences before, during, and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of lives of women and children during a transformative period in Eastern Europe and opens a window to the crucial events of that epoch...read more
By Golda Finkler (contributor)

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9781936235902 | Academic Studies Pr, May 1, 2012, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history.

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9781618112170 | Academic Studies Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history.

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When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture and his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.

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9780195178524 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 19, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology.

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9780195178531 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 10, 2010, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: George W. Stocking, Jr., has spent a professional lifetime exploring the history of anthropology, and his findings have shaped anthropologists’ understanding of their field for two generations. Through his meticulous research, Stocking has shown how such forces as politics, race, institutional affiliations, and personal relationships have influenced the discipline from its beginnings...read more

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9780299249847 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 18, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: George W.

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Product Description: A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown?Youngstown, Ohio?to study an ?exotic? group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada. This is 1964; she?ll be ?the expert, ? and they?ll be ?the subjects.? The Paiute elders have other ideas...read more

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9781442601772 | Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, August 1, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown?

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9781442601789 | Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, August 1, 2010, cover price $28.95

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In the rural Midwest during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, two fourteen-year-old boys join an archaeological dig and unearth the story of the Great Plains peoples, from the Ice Age hunters through the final days of the Indian Wars.

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9780520066786 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $85.00

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9780803224377 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the rural Midwest during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, two fourteen-year-old boys join an archaeological dig and unearth the story of the Great Plains peoples, from the Ice Age hunters through the final days of the Indian Wars.

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Product Description: In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C. Parker, joined the ranks of professional archaeology...read more

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9780816526550 | Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C.

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9780816526567 | Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C.

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Product Description: Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist's Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career. It presents Moshe Shokeid's explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life, which he closely observed in three major arenas of contemporary Jewish life: Moroccan Jews who immigrated from the Atlas Mountains to become farmers in the semi-arid Negev fields; Israeli-born citizens who left their homes to start a new life in America; and, finally, American gay Jews who chose to preserve their cultural heritage and remain involved in synagogue life as part of the mosaic of New York Jews...read more

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9781934843369 | Academic Studies Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist's Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career.

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9780913167281 | Blackwell Pub, July 1, 1989, cover price $33.95

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9781444307047 | Blackwell Pub, May 12, 2009, cover price $36.95

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Product Description: A pioneering anthropologist, social theorist, railroad lawyer, and advocate for Native Americans, Lewis Henry Morgan was the only American to be cited by Darwin, Marx, and Freud. By many accounts, he was the most influential American social scientist of the nineteenth century...read more

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9780826218186 | Univ of Missouri Pr, April 15, 2009, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: A pioneering anthropologist, social theorist, railroad lawyer, and advocate for Native Americans, Lewis Henry Morgan was the only American to be cited by Darwin, Marx, and Freud.

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9780252027901 | Univ of Illinois Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Julian Steward (1902-72) is best remembered in American anthropology as the creator of cultural ecology, a theoretical approach that has influenced generations of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

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9780252076350 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, January 2, 2009), cover price $26.00

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Product Description: Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley (1907–77) was a highly respected writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems easily read and understood by the general public. Much of his work covered anthropology, ecology, and human evolution, topics in which Eiseley himself was extensively educated...read more
By Scott Slovic (introduced by)

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9780803219069 | Bison Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley (1907–77) was a highly respected writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems easily read and understood by the general public.

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Product Description: The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda demystifies what Castaneda sought to hide and delivers a detailed portrait of an enigmatic, driven seeker that passes beyond mere description to the very assemblage point of Carlos Castaneda...read more

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9781879514973 | Arete Communications, January 1, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda demystifies what Castaneda sought to hide and delivers a detailed portrait of an enigmatic, driven seeker that passes beyond mere description to the very assemblage point of Carlos Castaneda.

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9781879514966 | Arete Communications, October 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda demystifies what Castaneda sought to hide and delivers a detailed portrait of an enigmatic, driven seeker that passes beyond mere description to the very assemblage point of Carlos Castaneda.

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Product Description: Robert Redfield is remembered today primarily as an anthropologist, but during his lifetime Redfield's cross-disciplinary activity reflected a strong interest in infusing anthropological practice with sociological theory. Like a handful of other anthropologists, including A...read more
By Robert Redfield (editor) and Clifford Wilcox (introduced by)

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9781412806947 | Transaction Pub, July 30, 2008, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Robert Redfield is remembered today primarily as an anthropologist, but during his lifetime Redfield's cross-disciplinary activity reflected a strong interest in infusing anthropological practice with sociological theory.

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Product Description: Edward Sapir (1884–1939) was one of the foremost linguists and anthropologists of his time. He is most widely known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages. A founder of ethnology, which considers the relationship of culture to language, he was also principal developer of the American (descriptive) school of structural linguistics...read more
By E. F. K. Koerner (editor)

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9780415255073 | Routledge, October 16, 2007, cover price $970.00 | About this edition: Edward Sapir (1884–1939) was one of the foremost linguists and anthropologists of his time.

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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classic The Myth of the Negro Past delineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book Man and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation. After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits’s private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn’s biography recognizes Herskovits’s many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.

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9780803221871 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Melville J.

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9780803222472 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900–1975). Between the early 1940s and mid-1960s, White’s work was widely discussed, and he was among the most frequently cited American anthropologists in the world...read more

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9780803236813 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A.

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9780803222540 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A.

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Product Description: Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century...read more

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9780803215221 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations.

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