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1	The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $4.20! new only from $18.29! \| first editions
2	Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. As Man , the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, put it in its review of the book: His audacity in desacrilising the godlike founding fathers of our ... see all copies from $2.27! new only from $39.83!
3	Ethnography Through Thick & Thin more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book "Writing Culture", which he coedited with James Clifford. "Ethnography through Thick and Thin" updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $32.81! \| SVS
4	The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology more books like this by Anna Grimshaw add to wishlist Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $13.95! \| SVS
5	La Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico more books like this by Beverly Chinas add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.81!
6	Indians in Overalls more books like this by Jaime De Angulo add to wishlist An account, by the original and eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angelo, of his first linguistically oriented field trip, in 1921, to the Achumawi tribe of northern California. see all copies from $7.12! new only from $45.27! \| first editions
7	Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami more books like this by Kenneth Good, David Chanoff add to wishlist Anthropologist Kenneth Good went to the rain forests of the Amazon to study the Yanomami. He found more than one of the few remaining peoples untouched by modern "civilization." During more than a decade of observation, Good found himself accepted, indeed virtually adopted, by the tribe and eventually fell in love with a young Yanomami woman. In ... see all copies from $23.30! new only from $43.13! \| SVS
8	Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology in Highland Papua New Guinea more books like this by David M Hayano add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.09! \| first editions
9	Not a hazardous sport more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Tiring of the horrors of West Africa, an area which he has spent much of his professional life studying, anthropologist Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and spent a number of months at the end of 1985 on the island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study, unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley found plenty to wonder ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.30! \| first editions
10	Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras more books like this by Nita Kumar add to wishlist "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?" In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectual adapts to the field and builds deeply ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.78! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama more books like this by Kenneth Good add to wishlist This is an account of an anthropologist's foray into the heart of the Amazon jungle. When Kenneth Good began his work with the Yanomama Indians, he planned to stay with them in the jungle for 15 months. Twelve years later he was still there. The tribe described as violent, bloody and persistently aggressive, delighting in murder, living on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.90! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork more books like this by Allaine Cerwonka, Liisa H Malkki add to wishlist Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisational in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life more books like this by Stanley Tambiah add to wishlist Stanley J. Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists, and a man of extraordinary versatility, originality and intellectual breadth. His substantial contributions to anthropology deal with topics including kinship and social organization, hill tribes and valley peoples, ... see all copies from $6.89! new only from $6.89! \| first editions
14 view cover	How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example more books like this by Marshall Sahlins add to wishlist When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are debated in this text. Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $22.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption & Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America more books like this by Sergei Kan (Editor) add to wishlist "Strangers to Relatives" is an intimate and illuminating look at a typical but misunderstood part of anthropological fieldwork in North America: the adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Adoption and naming have long been a common way for Native peoples in Canada and the United States to deal with strangers who ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
16 view cover	Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work more books like this by Philip R. DeVita add to wishlist see all copies from $14.79! new only from $66.22!
17 view cover	Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology more books like this by Vered Amit (Editor) add to wishlist This volume is a new addition to the Routledge series of biographical dictionaries. With almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors, the Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology is destined to become the definitive one-stop reference source for authoritative information on the life and work ... see all copies from $46.75! new only from $46.75! \| SVS
18 view cover	Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent more books like this by Ron Emoff (Editor), David Henderson (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context, yet are a vital part of research at undergraduate level and beyond. see all copies from $6.37! new only from $26.46! \| first editions
19 view cover	Knowing How to Know: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present more books like this by Narmala Halstead add to wishlist Through the idea of the "extended field," this volume examines issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides fresh insights into the problems of ethnographic knowledge construction. It is a key text for new fieldworkers, established researchers and those looking for material to support modules on these issues. see all copies from $23.62! new only from $31.73!
20 view cover	Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan more books like this by Judy Thompson add to wishlist Recording Their Story describes the life of James Teit, one of Canada's earliest ethnographers, and his work among the Tahltan people of northern British Columbia almost a century ago. Teit's work collecting artifacts, taking photographs, recording songs, transcribing myths and gathering information about social organization, ceremonial life, ... see all copies from $19.91! new only from $24.94! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Ceremony: An Anthropologist's Misadventures in the African Bush more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist A London anthropologist chronicles the low moments and the high comedy of his time in Africa with the Dowayo tribe and the area they live in. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.98! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale more books like this by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (Editor), Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (Editor) add to wishlist A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, "Pulling the Right Threads" discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $18.43! \| SVS
23 view cover	Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea more books like this by Tobias Schneebaum add to wishlist In this biography, Schneebaum seeks to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering his life as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years amongst the Asmat. The result justaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead and New York, plagued by AIDS, and its own sad spirits. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia more books like this by Michael E O'Hanlon (Editor), Robert Welsch (Editor) add to wishlist Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $23.00! \| SVS
25	Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle more books like this by Tobias Schneebaum add to wishlist A unique journey into the culture of the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people barely touched by modern civilization. Schneebaum's odyssey is a sensitive account of a vanishing society open to sexual relations between men. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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