Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia–and why killing the dead is better than killing the living
Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global acc- Author: Blair, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 069122479X
- Language: English
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart“If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do,” write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Monaghan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853465
- Language: English
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea–a closed world of increasing global importance–hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Revi… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523912
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Teaching Tools for Anthropology Careers
$25.00 Add to cartHow do you prepare anthropology graduates for meaningful careers?
This book contains 37 tools that provide straightforward guidance about career readiness for programs and individual instructors. The t
- Author: Nolan, Riall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991219822
- Language: English
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East of Dreams
$18.95 Read moreDisplaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.
The work- Author: Martin, Nastassja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379341
- Language: English
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World
$29.95 Add to cartA transformative way of understanding addiction–and an invitation to find connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for us
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addicti- Author: Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0691245800
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$19.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER – NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO – NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE
“Gossip is the only- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1538757419
- Language: English
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Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
$24.00 Add to cartFood justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a world where everyone has enough? What does it mean to
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Reese, Ashanté M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324076461
- Language: English
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El Antropolog a Cultural: Una Perspectiva Cristiana = Cultural Anthropology = Cultural Anthropology
$17.99 Add to cartEl tema se presenta desde una perspectiva cristiana. Los autores, bas?ndose en su amplia experiencia pastoral, misionera y acad?mica, le ofrecen a usted una introducci?n a este tema y para la apreciac
- Author: Grunlan, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0829703438
- Language: Spanish
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Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures
$28.00 Add to cartInnovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems–buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins–maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape
For decades, Detroit reside
- Author: Caverly, Nicholas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640256
- Language: English
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Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World
$18.95 Add to cartNow is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.
In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh po- Series: Canons
- Author: Temelkuran, Ece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1837263043
- Language: English
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A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
$19.00 Add to cartThis instant New York Times bestselling political book is “an essential companion for anyone who suspects that politics is in fact for everyone, and that the time to put skin in the game is right now”… [more below]
- Author: McGowan, Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668066440
- Language: English
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
$40.00 Add to cartTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century.
The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to c
- Author: Nicholson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246509
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartDrawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber’s most important essays and interviews.
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is somethi- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397642
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now.” — James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and b- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892078
- Language: English
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Studying the Image: Critical Issues in Anthropology for Christians
$34.00 Add to cartThe field of anthropology provides rich insights into the world of people and cultures. But it also presents challenges for Christians in the areas of cultural relativism, evolutionary theory, race an… [more below]
- Author: Meneses, Eloise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1532636679
- Language: English
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Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
$29.95 Add to cartMuch of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the essen… [more below]
- Series: Japanese Society
- Author: Befu, Harumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1876843055
- Language: English
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The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$29.99 Add to cartExplore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology–the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.
What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family s- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593966813
- Language: English
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Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
$38.93 Add to cartIn Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of educati… [more below]
- Author: Nájera, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030534
- Language: English
