From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people...
"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times A remarkable intr...
Life can sometimes thrust us into troubling circumstances that threaten to undo our thin mastery over those things that matter most. In this mov...
Until recently, to be in a 'public place' meant to feel safe. That has changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to quickly r...
Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of dista...
Bateson uses her background as an anthropologist and her own reflections on our rapidly changing world to propose a new vision of learning throug...
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human pe...
The incredible true story of a journey to the heart of the Amazon, published alongside Complicite's critically acclaimed stage production 'The En...
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...
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