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Zeitoun
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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on ...
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition
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Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
The fifth-anniversary edition of the best-selling work on the development of racial identity. . Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered ...
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Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge
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William A Haviland
Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of "Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge" provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make ...
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Cultural Anthropology
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Barbara Miller
Designed to give your students the extra support they need to succeed in your classroom, our Study Edition of Miller's Cultural Anthropology offers perforated chapter practice tests at the end of the textbook, an optional Practice Test Solutions Manual with access to professional tutoring, and an Instructor's Testing Manual with solutions to the ...
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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities
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Lawrence Cunningham
CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and ...
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Conformity & Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
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James P Spradley
An ideal complement to standard anthropology texts or as a stand-alone text/reader, the best-selling Conformity and Conflict continues to offer an in-depth look at anthropology as a powerful way to study human behavior and events. The 37 articles cover a broad range of theoretical perspectives and demonstrate basic anthropological concepts. The ...
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Communication Between Cultures
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Larry A Samovar
Provides students with an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and the practical skills for improving their communication with people from other cultures. The book includes numerous compelling examples that force students to examine their own assumptions and cultural biases. It is divided into four interrelated parts: Part I ...
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Race, Class, & Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study
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Paula S Rothenberg
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Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Conrad Phillip Kottak
Written by a prominent scholar in the field, this concise, up-to-date introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics with contemporary changes in the field. Since no single or monolithic theoretical perspective orients this book, instructors with a wide range of views and approaches can use it effectively. The ...
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Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States
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Dr. Vincent N Parrillo
The most up-to-date and comprehensive text available for the study of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. With the growing emphasis in courses on diversity in the United States, this book informs students about the nation's past and present multicultural realities. The book begins with an analysis of the stranger as a social ...
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Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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James G Peoples
Using engaging stories and clear writing, "Advantage Books, Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology", Eighth Edition introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered around globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey focus on the social and cultural consequences of globalization, emphasizing culture change and ...
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Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives
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Martin N Marger
Explores race and ethnic relations in a global context, while extensively covering groups and issues in the United States. The text's unique comparative approach is increasingly important and relevant in light of the growing ethnic diversity in a variety of societies.
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The Second Shift
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
As the majority of women entered the workforce, sociologist and Berkeley professor Hochschild was one of the first to talk about what really happens in dual-career households. This landmark study of two-career parents ranks in significance with "The Feminine Mystique" and "The Second Sex."
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The Yanomamo
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Napoleon A Chagnon
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, this classic ethnography, now in its fifth edition, focuses on the Yanomamo. These truly remarkable South American people are one of the few primitive sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This new edition includes events and changes that have occurred since 1992, including a recent trip by the author ...
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
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Janet L Abu-Lughod
A beautifully-written--almost poetic--ethnography of the Bedouins in Egypt as well as a study of gender relations through analysis of their oral lyric poetry.
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The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi
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Richard B Lee
This classic study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert, described changes that have come, as recently as 1991, to the Kung rituals, beliefs, social control, marriage and kinship. It documents their emerging determination to take hold of their own destiny - despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless ...
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
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Robert H Bork
In this book Robert Bork identifies what he sees as the important issues of our time and what needs to be done if the American nation is to avoid further decline.
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The Cultural Dimension of International Business
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Gary P Ferraro
For junior/senior level undergraduate/graduate courses in Anthropology of Business, International Business, Applied Anthropology, International Marketing, and International Management. This is only book that demonstrates how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology can positively influence the conduct of international business. The text ...
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Robert N Bellah
A new edition, with a new introduction, of one of the most widely discussed interpretations of American society in the 20th century. The authors' attack on "utilitarian individualism' and their antidote for societal ills--a quest for democratic community--has become more relevant with the passage of time.
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American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination
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Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.
This brief and inexpensive text provides a concise introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the prominent ethnic groups in America. As a result, the book examines each ethnic group from ...
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Adventures in the Human Spirit
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Philip Bishop
For a one semester survey course in Introduction to Humanities. This single-volume text is a historical survey of the western humanities. Written to be accessible to students with little background in the arts and humanities, Adventure in the Human Spirit provides a balanced introduction to the major arts, philosophy, and religion. This text ...
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
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Steven Johnson
From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.
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Slaves in the Family
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Edward Ball
A personal history of slavery in the South, written by a descendant of South Carolina slaveowners who traced the histories of the slave families owned by his ancestors and searched out their descendants. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Division of Labor in Society
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Emile Durkheim
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