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  • A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa--the period of "running around…

    Rumspringa - To Be or Not to Be Amish

    By Tom Shachtman rating of short cover   ( 830 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2007 ISBN: 9781466805132 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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  • From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitz’s…

    On Looking - Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

    By Alexandra Horowitz rating of short cover   ( 112 customer ratings) Scribner, January 2013 ISBN: 9781439191279 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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  • The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman…

    I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

    By Rigoberta Menchú rating of short cover   ( 2096 customer ratings) Verso, January 2010 ISBN: 9781844674718 Language:  English
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  • In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared…

    The Serpent and the Rainbow

    By Wade Davis rating of short cover   ( 1759 customer ratings) Simon & Schuster, October 2010 ISBN: 9781451628364 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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  • "provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology." ~American Ethnologist "groundbreaking" ~The Teachers College Record DECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY is…
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    Decolonizing Anthropology, 3rd edition: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for…

    By Faye V Harrison rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) American Anthropological Association, January 2011 ISBN: 9780983682202 Language:  English
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  • A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is…

    Bright-sided - How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined…

    By Barbara Ehrenreich rating of short cover   ( 3619 customer ratings) Henry Holt and Co., October 2009 ISBN: 9781429942539 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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  • Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened…

    The Journey of Man - A Genetic Odyssey

    By Spencer Wells rating of short cover   ( 398 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, October 2012 ISBN: 9780307830456 Biological Sciences, Genetics Language:  English
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  • The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters…

    The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

    By Bryan Sykes rating of short cover   ( 2366 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, December 2010 ISBN: 9780393079807 Biological Sciences, Genetics Language:  English
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  • It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu.What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the…

    Top Dog - The Science of Winning and Losing

    By Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson rating of short cover   ( 104 customer ratings) Grand Central Publishing, February 2013 ISBN: 9781455515165 Management & Leadership, Motivational Language:  English
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  • From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbyeSara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There’s a…

    Exit - The Endings That Set Us Free

    By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot rating of short cover   ( 47 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2012 ISBN: 9781429942744 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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