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Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	Ziad, Waleed	HARDCOVER	11/16/2021	$45.00	Not yet available
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border	Billé, Franck Humphrey, Caroline	HARDCOVER	11/16/2021	$29.95	Not yet available
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology	Redman, Samuel J.	HARDCOVER	10/19/2021	$39.95	Not yet available
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World	Khan, Aisha	HARDCOVER	07/13/2021	$39.95
Shooting Cameras for Peace / Disparando Cámaras para la Paz: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict / Juventud, Fotografía y el Conflicto Armado Colombiano	Fattal, Alexander L. Klatt, Andrew Ramírez, María Clemencia	PAPERBACK	12/01/2020	$39.95
Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City	Hirth, Kenneth G. Carballo, David M. Arroyo, Barbara	HARDCOVER	07/07/2020	$75.00
Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas	Kosiba, Steve Janusek, John Wayne Cummins, Thomas B. F.	HARDCOVER	05/12/2020	$75.00
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India	Subramanian, Ajantha	HARDCOVER	12/03/2019	$52.00
What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War	Wagner, Sarah E.	HARDCOVER	11/05/2019	$29.95
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography	Jordan-Young, Rebecca M. Karkazis, Katrina	HARDCOVER	10/15/2019	$29.95
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress	Bucar, Liz	PAPERBACK	08/13/2019	$21.00
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures	Everett, Caleb	PAPERBACK	04/22/2019	$18.95
The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West	Arora, Payal	HARDCOVER	02/25/2019	$35.00
The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic	Fielding, Russell	HARDCOVER	10/08/2018	$27.95
Still Points	Gardner, Robert Pressman, Adele	HARDCOVER	09/10/2018	$50.00
Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice	Tiesler, Vera Scherer, Andrew K.	HARDCOVER	06/04/2018	$75.00
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India	Doron, Assa Jeffrey, Robin	HARDCOVER	03/26/2018	$29.95
Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music	Monson, Ingrid Oja, Carol J. Wolf, Richard K.	HARDCOVER	01/15/2018	$45.00
The New Pakistani Middle Class	Maqsood, Ammara	HARDCOVER	11/13/2017	$49.50
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress	Bucar, Liz	HARDCOVER	09/04/2017	$29.95
Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari	Barbash, Ilisa	PAPERBACK	05/29/2017	$39.95
Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World	Feros, Antonio	HARDCOVER	04/03/2017	$48.00
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures	Everett, Caleb	HARDCOVER	03/13/2017	$27.95
The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History	Stuurman, Siep	HARDCOVER	02/20/2017	$54.50
Painted Words: Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism	Boone, Elizabeth Hill Burkhart, Louise M. Tavárez, David	PAPERBACK	01/09/2017	$69.95
Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World	Costin, Cathy Lynne	HARDCOVER	10/31/2016	$75.00
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience	Rotman, Youval	HARDCOVER	09/19/2016	$43.50
African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century	Butticci, Annalisa	HARDCOVER	04/04/2016	$42.00
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior	Gray, Peter B. Garcia, Justin R.	PAPERBACK	03/14/2016	$25.50
The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural Ecology	Chhabra, Tarun	HARDCOVER	11/30/2015	$65.00
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way	Huth, John Edward	PAPERBACK	11/16/2015	$23.00
Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians	Chehabi, H. E. Neville, Grace	PAPERBACK	10/26/2015	$24.95
Counter-Diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns “Home”	Christou, Anastasia King, Russell	HARDCOVER	10/19/2015	$75.00
Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan	Bondy, Christopher	HARDCOVER	09/07/2015	$39.95
The Journey of “A Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs	Odo, David	HARDCOVER	08/03/2015	$45.00
Vesuvius	Darley, Gillian	PAPERBACK	05/04/2015	$30.00
Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities	Lin, Wei-Ping	HARDCOVER	02/23/2015	$39.95
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History	Thum, Rian	HARDCOVER	10/13/2014	$45.00
Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People	Brown, Michael F.	HARDCOVER	09/15/2014	$40.00
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman	Kopenawa, Davi Albert, Bruce Elliott, Nicholas Dundy, Alison	HARDCOVER	11/15/2013	$42.00
Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century	Clifford, James	HARDCOVER	11/04/2013	$48.00
The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life	Doron, Assa Jeffrey, Robin	HARDCOVER	04/02/2013	$34.50
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World	Mithen, Steven	HARDCOVER	11/26/2012	$25.95
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations	Mintz, Sidney W.	PAPERBACK	10/22/2012	$30.00
The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery	Fash, William L. López Luján, Leonardo	PAPERBACK	04/02/2012	$35.00
Endocrinology of Social Relationships	Ellison, Peter T. Gray, Peter B.	PAPERBACK	03/05/2012	$30.00
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement	Deutsch, Nathaniel	HARDCOVER	11/29/2011	$42.50
Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World, Revised Edition	Kowalski, Jeff Karl Kristan-Graham, Cynthia	PAPERBACK	11/28/2011	$50.00
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally	Davis, Sarah H. Konner, Melvin	PAPERBACK	09/19/2011	$30.00
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding	Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer	PAPERBACK	04/15/2011	$24.00

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