Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through it...
The most successful new textbook in a generation, Ken Guest’s text shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture. ...
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compa...
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the a...
Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cultures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening explora...
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline...
In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the Engl...
A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century t...
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages...
This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual a...
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the u...
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years,...
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