Cultural & Social
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We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf
$19.95 Add to cartWe Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insig… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803259859
- Language: English
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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity
$19.95 Read moreA thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality–at the table and beyond–that’s part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our da… [more below]
- Author: Basil, Priya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525657851
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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Way Things Ought to Be
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with … [more below]
- Author: Limbaugh, Rush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982188464
- Language: English
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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
$16.99 Read moreA Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer
Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1786070650
- Language: English
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
$25.00 Add to cartThe past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained st… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065232
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
$25.00 Add to cartAre you considered a “dingbatter,” or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little “sigogglin,” or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending time with yo… [more below]- Author: Wolfram, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1469629992
- Language: English
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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
$35.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593700678
- Language: English
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Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice
$41.08 Read moreWritten by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, appr… [more below]
- Author: Lave, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1108727433
- Language: English
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Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex
$34.95 Add to cartUjarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #6
- Author: Saladin D’Anglure, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0887558305
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
$30.00 Add to cartHugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the f
- Author: Brody, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0865476381
- Language: English
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Los Arabes of New Mexico: Compadres from a Distant Land
$22.95 Add to cartAt the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to
- Author: Ghattas, Monika White
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0865349118
- Language: English
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White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
$23.99 Add to cartDaniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: “Daniel, you may be white, but don’t let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white cu
- Author: Hill, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0830843930
- Language: English
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
$19.95 Read moreGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 080484755X
- Language: English
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
$19.95 Add to cartGrave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and dis… [more below]
- Series: Fourth World Rising
- Author: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803269080
- Language: English
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
$24.95 Add to cartHidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generati… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803260989
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
$17.00 Add to cartA revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most … [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110292
- Language: English
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Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
$39.95 Add to cartFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology a… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
- Author: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496216911
- Language: English
