ANTHROPOLOGY

SCC Library
Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on the basis of the data available to him.

WMC Library
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South is a clear assessment of the growing mutual respect and strengthening bond between modern Native Americans and the researchers who explore their past.

PDC Library - WMC Library
A study of the politics of anthropology itself, examining the survival of theses or schools of thought and the influence of certain individuals and departments.

Hopi Center Library
Examining the changing image of the Bushman, Barnard provides a new contribution to an established anthropology debate. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org

LCC Library
Durrenberger and Erem show how seeing the world through an anthropological lens enhances our understanding of such current topics as globalization, the new economy, jobs and careers, world trade, the condition of inner cities, and racial and ethnic relations.

LCC Library
The emerging field of macrobioarchaeology gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 BC to the late nineteenth century.

PDC Library
The story of how the technologies and innovations, big and small propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannas of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.

SCC Library
Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the idea of an imminent borderless world, underscoring the impact borders have on a range of issues, such as economic development, inter- and intra-state conflict, global terrorism, migration, nationalism, international law, environmental sustainability, and natural resource management.

LCC Library
An argument for a subtle interpretation of Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 work “Criminal Man” his theories that criminals could not escape their biological destiny, and emphasizing that Lombroso himself acknowledged the multifaceted nature of criminal behavior and is much more complicated than merely pinning his ideas onto the left-right political spectrum.

PDC Library (REFERENCE COLLECTION)
A systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago.

SCC Library
Historical sources and references to current ideas in neighboring disciplines of archaeology, paleoanthropology, genetics, art and material culture, ethnomusicology, urban and development studies, politics, economics, psychology, and religious studies.

PDC Library
Specialists in political evolution draw on data from ethnography, archaeology, and history and apply fresh insights to enhance the study of the chiefdom. The papers present penetrating analyses of many aspects of the chiefdom, from how this form of political organization first arose to the role it played in giving rise to the next major stage in the development of human society--the state.

LCC Library
Anthropologists at the Rhodes- Livingstone Institute for Social Research, Lusaka, and/or in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, discuss within a common framework modern fieldwork methods as tools for examining a number of problems of current anthropological interest.

Hopi Center ans SCC Libraries
Drawing on their vast knowledge of both living and prehistoric social groups, the authors describe the changes in logic that create larger and more hierarchical societies, and they argue persuasively that many kinds of inequality can be overcome by reversing these changes, rather than by violence.

SCC Library
A wealth of case material, demonstrating the many manifestations of religious violence, but also more prevalent forms. This book goes a long way toward helping us understand the nature of violence generally, its complicated connections with religion, and how society in the future might avoid being blindsided by the worst aspects of human nature.

SCC Library
Argues for equal role of women in human evolution. This text in feminist history starts with the demolition of the Biblical myth that woman was an afterthought to the creation of man. It is a useful work in Women's Studies and Anthropology.

LCC Library
General overviews of every variety of disease and their carriers. Ethne Barnes answers questions you never knew you had about the germs that have threatened us throughout human history.

WRV Center Library
The Fossil Trail takes us on a sweeping tour of the study of human evolution, offering a colorful history of fossil discoveries and a revealing insider's look at how these finds have been interpreted--and misinterpreted--through time.

WMC Library REFERENCE COLLECTION
Physical anthropology is the comparative study of humans as biological organisms, their evolution, and their physiological and anatomical functions. The discipline also encompasses the study of the origins, evolution, behavior, and ecology of primates. 2 volume set.

LCC Library
This book follows Margaret Mead when she became the cultural ambassador from America to Britain in 1943, through her downfall in the Cold War. Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences.