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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxi, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An examination of how individuals strive for social status and how this creates our culture as a whole Contrary to belief, status signaling isn't just the province of the immature or insecure but a fundamental human need to secure social standing. It drives our behavior, forms our tastes, determines what we buy, and ultimately shapes who we are. It's what's behind "cool" and what drives fashion, music, food, sports, slang, travel, hairstyles, and...
4) Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race-revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases-continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com.
Author
Series
Phoenix books volume P204
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
Abridged ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 364 p. illus. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology volume no. 16
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Using examples from their own research in Indonesia and Mexico, John Monaghan and Peter Just give the reader a sense of what it is like to be an anthropologist doing the unique fieldwork that sets anthropology apart from other social sciences. They also provide an account of the 'big' questions that have concerned anthropologists since the beginnings of the field: What is unique about human beings? How are groups of people - family, class, tribe,...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xxiv, 402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of humanity is the story of textiles--as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel traces this surprising history, exposing the hidden ways textiles have made our world. The origins of chemistry lie in the...
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
viii, 221 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tourism and Culture provides detailed case studies that explore the complexity of modern tourism relationships. The book challenges the often assumed primacy of the relationships between "hosts" and their "guests," arguing that virtually all forms of tourism are mediated by parties who stand outside of such immediate relationships. Individual contributions to the book describe tourism developments in specific locales, offering a variety of perspectives...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[1985]
Edition
First Touchstone edition, 1986 --title page verso.
Physical Desc
639 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociology, criminology, economics, medicine, biology, and psychology and exploring the effects of such factors as gender, age, race, and family, two eminent social scientists frame a groundbreaking theory of criminal behavior.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
340 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The creator of the Sporkful, shares tips and techniques for getting the best flavor from every food and provides the answers to some of life's most important gastronomical questions, including "Is an open-faced sandwich actually a sandwich?"
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (approx. 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four lectures on the philosophy and the history of the study of religion presented by Charles B. Jones, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxxix, 435 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor. Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society--governed by the marketplace--is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists' work. He shows us that another way is possible: the alternative...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
[ix], 304 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft." And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
viii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Early in the 20th century, anthropology student Gilbert Wilson made the first of several trips to an Indian reservation in North Dakota to examine agricultural techniques used among the Hidatsa Indians. This intriguing book is the result of his research. More than a survey of primitive agriculture, however, the work sensitively investigates the activities of a unique culture. With the help of Buffalobird-woman, a Hidatsa native, Wilson not only created...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 114 pages : maps ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
In this course of lectures Prof. Fischer surveys anthropology, the study of human societies and comparative customs with a special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.
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