The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication
 Interesting but some if its views are revolting: I obtained this book as a new paperback for the princely sum of £..., evidently as it was in a reject shop. I went for this book as a scientific read and it does contain some useful and valuable [... more]
$21.00
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Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal ...
Mostly the author Dreaming, not the Aborigines: I bought this book not long after it was first published in 1991. I was attracted to the book because the form and binding looked good and I didn't have any books about Australian Aborigines yet. As far as [... more]
$29.95
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The Study of Human Nature: A Reader
Must Have: This fascinating book consist on a compilation of the best writing on the subject of what is to be human. Since the books included here are the bible , other sacred books, Decarte, etc, it is absurd to rate the writer's talents. They have been [... more]
$34.95
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in ...
Back In Print, Finally.: After my paperback copy of SEM decayed from several readings, I was more than a little disappointed to see that it had gone out of print. I'm glad that its finally back. Absolutely, Bateson is a "sloppy thinker," just [... more]
$22.00
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Claude Levi-Strauss
Difficult: Perhaps it is because the ideas themselves are so difficult but I found this work very hard to understand. Leach uses much technical terminology and perhaps this helps those within the world of ethnology but I found myself double and triple- [... more]
$16.00
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Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss
Not essential Levi-Strauss, but worthwhile: Didier Eribon's conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, the father of Structural Anthropology and one of the leading intellectuals of 20th century France, are enlightening and occasionally entertaining. You get [... more]
$25.00
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Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern ...
Book Description: When the human understanding of beasts in the past is studied, what are revealed is not only the foundations of our own perception of animals, but humans contemplating their own status. This book argues that what is revealed in a wide [... more]
$19.95
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Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and ...
A Different World: This is a very well-written and sympathetic biography of a great human being who struggled through many of his human impulses yet he remained true to himself till the end, the courage to live with enormous integrity. The author has [... more]
$39.00
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Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
An interesting biography of the great anthropologist: Franz Boas was one of the founders of American anthropology. Born in Germany, he first studied geography. After an expedition to Baffin Island and encountering Eskimos, he became interested in the [... more]
$50.00
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Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays in Boasian ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780299145545 ISBN: 0299145549 Number Of Pages: 358 Publication Date: 1998-11-09 [... more]
$24.95
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Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land (American Studies ...
Author: Margaret Caffrey Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0924 EAN: 9780292746558 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0292746555 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: 1989-02 [... more]
$19.95
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
Amazon.com Review: "Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not." So wrote Isaiah Berlin in & [... more]
$35.00
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