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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
$34.95PaperbackRead moreThis accessible study of ayahuasca shamanism introduces its ritual practices including healers’ spiritual relationships with the native plants used in its ceremonies.
- Author: Beyer, Stephan V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0826347304
- Language: English
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By: Peter Coviello
Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes about Prehistoric Women
$19.99PaperbackRead more**As featured on Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast**
‘Lady Sapiens deserves praise for its willingness to challenge the status quo and present an accessible alternative view of human prehistory’ Science M… [more below]- Author: Cirotteau, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915054788
- Language: English
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live–how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die–in this “… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1451659113
- Language: English
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Am I Too Old to Save the Planet?: A Boomer’s Guide to Climate Action
$15.95PaperbackRead moreThink you’ve waited too long to do something about climate change? Think again. Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer’s Guide to Climate Action explains how America’s most promising generation all
- Author: MacDonald, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1803414847
- Language: English
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By: Belser, Alex
Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine
$21.95PaperbackRead moreAs psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility … [more below]
- Author: Belser, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1957869038
- Language: English
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Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartAny tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the
- Author: Kiskaddon, Dustin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1503635600
- Language: English
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By: Swift, Sonja
Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartA unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.
Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed
- Author: Swift, Sonja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1771606282
- Language: English
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn intimate portrait of the Big Apple
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called “Last Stop.” They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destin- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169705
- Language: English
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By: Clastres, Pierre
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
$26.95PaperbackRead moreIn this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among al
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299019
- Language: English
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Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth
$28.95HardcoverRead more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
“An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland.” —New York Times Book Review “This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking- Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362282
- Language: English
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Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse
$32.00PaperbackAdd to cart“If there’s anything that has prevented human beings from being human beings, then it is the discourse of racist ideas. Being Human Being cogently and clearly reveals the illusion, disruption, and dis
- Author: Asante, Molefi Kete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 03, 2021
- ISBN10: 1942774095
- Language: English
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By: Malkin, Craig
Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“[Dr. Malkin’s] reassuring tone and plethora of case histories offer considered advice and generous encouragement.” — Kirkus Reviews
When most of us hear the word narcissism or narcissist, we envision
- Author: Malkin, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062348116
- Language: English
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By: Bourdieu, Pierre
Outline of a Theory of Practice
$35.00PaperbackAdd to cartOutline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #16
- Author: Bourdieu, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: June 02 1977
- ISBN10: 052129164X
- Language: English
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By: Peter Menzel
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habit… [more below]
- Author: Menzel, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0984074422
- Language: English
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By: Marrs, Texe
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhen the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion were first discovered, Freemasons and Zionist Jews everywhere screamed and complained that these 24 Protocols are a hoax, a forgery, even a blood taint… [more below]
- Author: Marrs, Texe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1930004567
- Language: English
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By: Jorgensen, Jeana
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies
$14.99PaperbackAdd to cart“If you have ever dreamed of taking a class from the highly regarded scholar Dr. Jeana Jorgensen, this comprehensive text will grant your wish. Dr. Jorgensen’s presentation of material in Folklore 10
- Author: Jorgensen, Jeana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985159202
- Language: English
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By: Wade Davis
The Wayfinders
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and Nat
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0887848427
- Language: English
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartA passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics–former
- Author: Deresiewicz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858631
- Language: English
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By: Kundnani, Arun
What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism
$24.95HardcoverRead moreThis scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally- Author: Kundnani, Arun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1839762764
- Language: English













