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Georgetown U. Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this pocket-size (5x7") guide, Geaves (religious studies, University of Chester) defines and succinctly explains terms used in religious studies and theology. Many terms are drawn from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, reflecting the intersection of these disciplines with religious studies. (©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Fithian Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Upon his retirement from working as a social scientist with the federal government in Washington, DC, Roth (PhD, cultural anthropology), begun a new fulltime "career" of exploring the woods around his suburban Virginia home. In diary and occasional haiku form, Roth reflects on his experiments with new ways of seeing by hanging upside down and other unique viewpoints on nature--especially the moon. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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North Atlantic Books, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Incorporating landscape narrative, speculative science writing, Buddhist commentary and other spiritual reflection, philosophical thinking, anti-Bush editorials, music and book reviews, and memorials to departed friends, Grossinger (Ph.D., anthropology, U. of Michigan) presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the meaning of humanity and nature in the post-9/11 world. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Prometheus Books, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Journalist and comedian Leon conducts a series of anthropological experiments designed to illuminate the world of conservative USA. As he is a self-described liberal his targets are rather predictable (white supremacists, cheerleaders and Christians) but his results are not, and vary from finding J. Edgar Hoover's drag name to the hunting weapon of choice of Ted Nugent to where precisely to put your knife and fork after lunch. He slightly dishevel... more information

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Washington State U. Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this edited version of her dissertation in anthropology, published as part of an award she won while at Washington State U., Galvin examines the experiences of widows in Nepal, with a focus on kinship and how it constructs and deconstructs widowhood. Specifically, she discusses how these widows are rejected from their kin group and how they deal with their new status, as well as their rituals, religion, caste, and residence choices. She us... more information

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Westview Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this book, which began as the Simon's (sociology, U. of Ottawa, Canada) dissertation, an ethnography of workers and managers in leather tanning factories in southern Taiwan is presented, with a focus on identity, nationalism, and political dimensions of their culture. Aimed at undergraduates, the book considers whether Taiwan is a Chinese or Taiwanese culture, provides a national and political context, describes social life and the influence of t... more information

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Globe Pequot Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Some loom on the horizon and some run underground, but each of these places sacred to the city gets its due in this very civil mix of memoir and anthropological study. Writer and photographer Scheff brings out the grandeur (and the slight silliness) of the Empire State Building, Central Park and the Rockefeller Center, as expected, but also carefully considers such New York institutions as the Waldorf Astoria, yellow taxis, FAO Schwartz, and the Met... more information

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AldineTransaction, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This reprint from 1969 (the first paperback printing of the volume), by Rosengren (sociology, U. of Rhode Island) and Lefton (sociology and anthropology, Case Western Reserve U.) considers the crisis in American medicine that centers on the organization of the hospital, its attitudes toward patients, and the relationship of hospitals to one another. They apply theories of sociology and organization to these topics, discussing how the traditional syst... more information

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U. of New Mexico Press, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Zona de Tolerancia is the red-light district of Guaymas, a Mexican fishing port and vacation destination on the Sea of Cortez about 400 miles south of Tucson, and it is there in the 1970s that Stuart (anthropology, U. of New Mexico) focuses in his second volume of memoir about the town. He explores the needs, wants, realities, and illusions in the lives of the working girls. The first volume is a little girl's story and a tale of love. (&cop... more information

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Transaction Publishers, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This study of economic vulnerability in a developing area, based on field research for a doctoral dissertation conducted in 1961-63, is still relevant today. Finney (emeritus, anthropology, U. of Hawaii at Manoa) studied socioeconomic change in two Tahitian communities with the advent of a wage economy and tourism. The book includes sketched maps, data tables, and photos of such occupations as coconut husker and the displacement of breadfruit by... more information

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National Geographic Society, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This guide lists 52 adventure trips all over the world for older travelers, covering both wilderness/wildlife/natural history trips and cultural/archaeological/anthropological excursions to exotic destinations, from sea kayaking in Canada to hiking the Inca Trail in Peru. Listed by region, trips range in amount of physical activity and 26 of them are described at length by fellow travelers, with information on special issues and challenges,... more information

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Counterpoint, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this personal narrative, naturalist and essayist Turner recounts his experiences examining 32,000 year-old paintings and engravings in the caves and prehistoric shelters of France and Spain. As he searches for the origins of human artistic expression, he makes connections with events both past and present and draws conclusions about what is most enduring in the human spirit. With references to the ideas of thinkers such as Keats, Thoreau, and Rilke, th... more information

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Transaction Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Berger (broadcast and electronic communication arts, San Francisco State U.) introduces important concepts in a number of methodologies that can be used to analyze material culture, and offers some examples of how the concepts can be or have been used. He focuses on material culture in relatively recent times--since people have become literate and started recording history--so the established methods of archaeological anthropology are of limited... more information

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U. of Michigan Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Van Gelder (education, Walden U.) combines research from her travels to places such as the caves of Dordogne to the inland country of Baie de Ha Ha in Quebec to examine why humans need to recognize their relationship with places, looking at themes of wildness, home, and ruins and how relationships with the nonhuman world are anthropomorphized. Prompted by her experiences in sorting through her family's history, she considers the concepts of ti... more information

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Heritage House Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This volume recounts the history of Yi Fao, the Chinese-Canadian community in New Westminster, British Columbia, through b&w photos and personal reminiscences of descendants of four families of settlers--Law, Lee, Quan, and Shiu. It covers the period 1858 to 1980 and is presented within a broader historical story based on information from local newspapers, archival records, and accounts of other community members. It came out of the exhib... more information

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Purdue University Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Ryan has developed a collaboration process called "Threeing" that has been used in the fields of education, engineering and the arts, and he has written this guide to the fundamentals of this approach for any group that needs to sustain relationships in order to achieve goals. The author divides this book into sections for theory, practice and application and uses philosophy, ecology and anthropology to describe how three-person colla... more information

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Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. From the fall of the Chinese empire to the war in Vietnam, with the Second World War and the Korean War thrown in for good measure, parts of the Asia-Pacific region have been the proving grounds for rampant ambition, colonialism, revolution and, lately, rapid commercial development. Crump, a retired academic whose interests range from mathematics and physics to law and anthropology, traces the convoluted history of the Asia-Pacific region, giving d... more information

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Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A historian at the Texas Historical Commission, Brinkman presents images of one of the oldest communities in Central Texas. Archaeological and anthropological evidence shows thousands of years of occupation in the area, he says, and permanent settlement dates to the late 1830s. It was on the early cattle trails to markets north and west, and became a center for education by the turn of the century. The sections look at people, transportation, early ... more information

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Manohar, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Streefkerk (formerly of the department of sociology and anthropology at the U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) analyzes the course of industrial development and labor relations in the state of Gujarat in western India from planned development through economic liberalization during the three decades between 1970 and 2000. His analysis focuses on how elite groups are able to exert power and influence, appropriate scarce resources, and control labor and on how pol... more information

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