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Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Developm: Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters (Hc) (Hardcover)

Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S.... more

Pre-Owned Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions (Anthropology Culture and Society) Paperback

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Culture and Human Development: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Research for the Social Sciences (Paperback)

As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common important questions have been raised about the nature of culture-specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development... more

Pre-Owned Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (Paperback) 0205494757 9780205494750

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Pre-Owned Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (Paperback) 0205494757 9780205494750

For courses in Cross-Cultural Development An interdisciplinary exploration of cross-cultural human development throughout the lifespan Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Developmen t focuses on cultural similarities and differences in human... more

Pre-Owned Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development Paperback

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Culture and Human Development: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Research for the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

This timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes combining psychological and sociological approaches with crosscultural research to examine phenomena such as the transfer of culture between generations and the... more

Pre-Owned Human Evolution and Culture : Highlights of Anthropology 9780136036357

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Pre-Owned Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology (Paperback) 013603635X 9780136036357

For one semester/quarter introductory courses in General Anthropology (Four Fields). This book presents the highlights of the popular Anthropology 12thedition by the same author team. The size of the book (19 chapters) makes it useful for quarter... more

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies: Activating Cultural and Social Change: The Pedagogies of Human Rights (Paperback)

In this thought-provoking book a diverse range of educators activists academics and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture. Addressing approaches... more

Inside Cultures: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)

This concise contemporary option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interaction between humans and their environment the tension between human universals and... more

International and Cultural Psychology: A Psychology of Culture (Paperback)

Looks at culture and its function through the lens of a unique and empirically supported theory that emerged from social psychologyIdentifies core human needs and cultural responses to satisfying those needsProvides a micro meso and macro perspective more

Pre-Owned Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography (Paperback 9781860649073) by Joel Bonnemaison Professor John Agnew

9781860649073. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 176. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. With dust jacket. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Maps. International Library of Human Geography. Drawing upon... more

Pre-Owned Cengage Advantage Books: Culture Counts : A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 9781111301538

Framed around the concept of culture Nanda and Warms brief book shows you how culture matters in driving and explaining human behavior as well as the dynamic nature of culture that interrelates various cultural systems in adaptive (or maladaptive)... more

Issues in Cultural Theory: Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium (Paperback)

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature and emotive power that the word evolution entails. Though commonly relegated to modern-day science the concept of evolution... more

Pre-Owned Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography (Paperback 9781860649080) by Joel Bonnemaison Professor John Agnew

9781860649080. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 176. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. International Library of Human Geography. Culture and Space provides an engaging introduction... more

Adolescent Cultures School and Society: Hip-Hop(e): The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop (Paperback)

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and... more

Pre-Owned Being Human: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Paperback) 0130903027 9780130903020

Combining the features of an introductory text with the vitality of ethnographic accounts this book presents the concepts relating to culture and social organization applies them to specific cultures and concludes with a survey of issues and... more

Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development (Paperback - Used) 0521378044 9780521378048

This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology psychology and linguistics is an outgrowth of the internationally known Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development. It raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology... more

Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition 0195338502 (Paperback - Used)

Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition Tenth Edition encourages students to think critically about culture and to view the world in new ways. The authors incorporate cutting-edge theory into solid coverage of traditional topics and... more

Pre-Owned Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission Among Hunter-Gatherers Volume (Hardcover 9780520276925) by Peter David Jordan

9780520276925. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 424. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 424 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Origins of Human Behavior and Culture 7. Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings 9780939693481 Paperback 2nd edition

9780939693481. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 576. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 576 p. Moore s Cultural Anthropology Second Edition is an introduction to the study of cultures via an updated... more

Pre-Owned Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission Among Hunter-Gatherers Volume (Paperback 9780520276932) by Peter David Jordan

9780520276932. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 424. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 424 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Origins of Human Behavior and Culture 7. Technology as Human Social Tradition... more

Pre-Owned Through the Lens of Anthropology : An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture 9781442608634

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise but comprehensive introductory textbook that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology s four major subfields: archaeology and biological cultural... more

Women Culture and Development : A Study of Human Capabilities 9780198289647 Used / Pre-owned

This acute examination of the quality of women s life addresses a variety of particularly urgent questions. It develops a universal account of women s quality of life and in doing so confronts issues of cultural relativism. An account of gender justice... more

Urban Worlds: The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities (Paperback)

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the relationship... more

The Challenges of Cultural Psychology (Hardcover)

This book considers cultural psychology from historical theoretical and epistemological perspectives building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters... more

One World Archaeology Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (Hardcover)

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that... more

American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique (Hardcover)

Most human bodies have two arms two legs hands feet a head. Yet the body as we perceive it is ultimately a cultural construct defined by the values and meanings each individual and each culture ascribes to it. Beyond its corporeal realities the... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology (Paperback 9780205957194) by Carol R. Ember Melvin Peter N. Peregrine

9780205957194. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. 14th edition. Pages: 496. 496 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Explains how and why human cultures vary so greatly across space and time Cultural Anthropology 14/e helps students... more

On Thinking: Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication (Paperback)

This text covers the relationship between brain imaging techniques and social and cultural psychology. By analyzing the cultural influences on human cognition and its neural mechanisms it brings us closer to solving the big question of nature versus... more

Amazonia : Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise Revised Edition (Paperback)

When first published in 1971 Amazonia was a pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cultural ecology. Betty Meggers argued that the Amazon s luxurious vegetation concealed significant limitations for human exploitation placing a ceiling on... more

Pre-Owned Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise Revised Edition (Paperback) 1560986557 9781560986553

When first published in 1971 Amazonia was a pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cultural ecology. Betty Meggers argued that the Amazon s luxurious vegetation concealed significant limitations for human exploitation placing a ceiling on... more

Classroom Complete Press Culture- Society & Globalization

Understand culture and society around the globe with our comprehensive resource. We explore topics such as loss of cultural diversity global environmental problems protecting human rights and global health by examining themes like history of... more

Same Sex Different Cultures: Exploring Gay And Lesbian Lives (Paperback)

Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays lesbians and bisexuals around the world Same Sex Different... more

Inside the College Gates : How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education (Paperback)

This book is intended to bring greater nuance to the study of inequality and higher education. Rather than focusing on human capital and students experiences inside the classroom the author highlights the ways in which the experiential core of college... more

The Chosen Primate (Paperback)

The great debates about human origins cultural history and human nature confront us with two opposing images of human beings. One view emphasizes biology the other emphasizes culture as the foundation of human behavior. In The Chosen Primate Adam Kuper... more

Local Knowledge : Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Paperback)

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of... more