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A supplement for courses in Anthropology.This special topics reader includes articles from the New York Times, journals, and popular sources. It presents an intriguing introduction to currently debated issues in physical anthropology. The readings have been carefully selected and organized to challenge students with the basic inquiries about these controversial topics. ... Read more

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Designed to accompany Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook, Third Edition by Byers (Allyn & Bacon, 2007) this laboratory manual provides students in academic laboratory courses hands-on experience with the major processes of forensic anthropology.

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As expected
Had a bit more writing in it than stated in the listing but overall good quality. ... Read more

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Teeth are among the best sources of evidence for both identification purposes and studies of demography, biological relationships, and health in ancient human communities. The anthropologist's specimen may be a cast that a dentist has taken from a living mouth, or actual teeth from an archaeological site or forensic case. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical guide to all essential aspects of dental anthropology, including excavation, identification, microscopic study, and tooth age determination. Dental Anthropology is a concise yet comprehensive resource designed for students and researchers in anthropology and archaeology. ... Read more

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If your future career involves teeth...
If your future career or profession involves teeth, then this is a text for you. A comprehensive guide to anatomy, variation, development, and disease on the subject. Includes a collection of drawings, pictures, and graphs to assist with learning. A great addition to the textbook arsenal of any bioarchaeologist, forensics student, or dental student.

Great for bioarchaeologists, forensics or dental students!
This book was written by my professor at University College London. It is really thorough and it explains everything you need to know about teeth. ... Read more

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In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike. ... Read more

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This book introduces readers to anthropological enquiry, and examines the major issues and themes in physical anthropological and archaeological investigation. It strongly emphasizes WHAT physical anthropologists and archeologists do with the information they study.Chapter topics include evolution, the primates, human variation, Paleolithic cultures, and the roles of the applied anthropologist.For those individuals who understand that an enhanced global awareness is essential for people preparing to take their place in the fast-paced, increasingly interconnected world of the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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Exploring Biological Anthropology is a core concepts version of the successful text, Biological Anthropology. It provides students with a strong foundation in biological anthropology without some of the extended examples found in the original text.  Exploring Biological Anthropology offers concise coverage of core material, while maintaining thorough coverage of traditionally important topics.  ... Read more

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good info
i had to get this book for an Anthropology class. Even if you just want to find out about the different aspects of Anthropology it is a good book. All textbooks however are usually expensive so buying a used one might be a better way to go. ... Read more

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For undergraduate introductory physical anthropology, biological anthropology or human origins courses.  

Biological Anthropology, 2/e continues to build upon the strength and success of the first edition by integrating the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up.

Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical anthropology into biological anthropology, incorporating the evolutionary biology of humankind based on information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior.  The second edition of Biological Anthropology combines the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the foundations of the field with modern innovations and discoveries.

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Great quality
The book is in perfect condition and shipped in decent time. I'd recommend this seller to others.

Excellent textbook
This book was used for my Intro to Human Evolution course. I entered the subject with very little prior knowledge and am now leaving majoring in it. This book is not too difficult to read and covers a lot of information in an interesting and thorough manner. Not only did I learn a lot from reading this text, but I also enjoyed it. It was very accessible with out being dummied down. There's a lot of interesting articles within the book about specific topics within each unit. I would highly recommend this. ... Read more

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Anthropology 1e was the first introductory anthropology text to integrate a four-field perspective and address topics such as research methods, ethics, theory, globalization, gender, race and ethnicity throughout. Continuing with this tradition in Anthropology 2e, author Barbara Miller is joined by three of the brightest new scholars in archaeology and biological anthropology to provide complete and current coverage of each of the four fields of anthropology.

• It incorporates up-to-date research and the latest discoveries and their impact on the “classics” in anthropology.
• It illuminates the basics of the four fields and demonstrates how they are connected.
• Through carefully chosen examples and exercises it shows how anthropology is relevant to today's world. 
• Beautifully illustrated, it maximizes the effectiveness of the art program by building pedagogy into the captions of photos, figures, tables and maps.
• It is an original and unique text, which provides students with the most faithful and holistic representation of anthropology available today.

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school book
wow! I originaly ordered this book from someone else on Amazon after two weeks waiting they e-mailed me saying that they could not send me the book (code for they no longer had it). I found this person and I am glad I did not only did it still get here in time for my first class(a thing I did not think would happen given how late I had to order it) but it was $20 cheaper than the first one I ordered I am so happy.:)I will definatly keep a eye out for you when I need more school books. ... Read more

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This concise introduction to biological anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. The text emphasizes themes and theories: facts are presented as supportive evidence rather than dissociated pieces of information. Each chapter poses questions that get at the heart of the field, answers them, and then reexamines them in the same way that scientists generate and test hypotheses. Unlike all other brief biological anthropology texts, this is not an abridged version of a longer text. Its presentation is fluid, well integrated, and covers all the standard topics in a carefully managed level of detail. Well-paced explanations, an inviting tone, and examples of the everyday uses of biological anthropology make the text a pleasure to read. ... Read more

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Biological Anthropology Text
I used this textbook for a class and it was highly informative and, at the same time, readable. Even if you're not using it for a class, it's a good book to have if you want to learn about the basics of physical (biological) anthropology. Highly recommended.

Great tool
This book is one that my professor has used for a number of terms and will continue to use it.I found that it was nice having the definitions to words listed on the side of the page which helped me with comprehension.This book gives a good amount of information in concise short chapters.

Biological Anthropology
I ordered this book for a class, and it came on time and in really good condition. ... Read more

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Master the concepts of physical anthropology with LAB MANUAL AND WORKBOOK FOR PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY! With hands-on lab assignments that help you apply physical anthropology perspectives and techniques to real situations, this lab manual help you understand difficult topics such as human osteology, forensic anthropology, anthropometry, primates, human evolution, and genetics. Margin definitions, key terms, helpful hints, exercises, and an index emphasize important topics and make studying easy. ... Read more

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The Failures of the Seller in the 21st Century and More
What can I say about this seller? Why would he put an item up for sale if he didn't have it, or didn't intend on sending it? Was he just in it for the money? Is he a drug fiend? I don't know.

Whatever the reason for his thievery (and thievery it was, to the tune of $26.49!), the item was never received. It was never sent. It may have never even existed.

There is a special place in Hell reserved for sellers like this that screw the customer over, making them wait 3 weeks to file a claim that will take a further 2 weeks to clear.

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I liked the tone, but confusing skeleton
What I found confusing were the skeletons.In my class we had to know which sides the bones were from. It could have been explained better how to tell the front from the back and which sides the bones were from. I liked the tone of the book and the author seemed like she wanted people to be interested and inspired by anthropology. I would have liked vocabulary, like distal, posterior etc to be explained and shown more clearly.

Good Book
Needed it for my Physical Anthropology class, pretty good but diagrams too small, but otherwise pretty good.

confusing
As a teaching assistant using the new edition of the lab manual, my students and I continualy ran into problems with this addition.Not only is it full of typos (eg. labeling A. africanus as A. robustus), but it is also confusing in the types of questions asked.Plus, the chapters themselves are arranged differently and lack in detail.

An anthropology student's nightmare
My professor has chosen to use this lab book for her "Introductory Biological Anthropology" course. On average, my classmates and I spend around four or five hours hunting for answers hidden within. The common theory we have is that somewhere there is a textbook that might accompany it. The diagrams are not very helpful - tiny black and white pictures that we are supposed to compare in size, shape, etc. The questions are very vague - before I started to type this review, I was using google to try to find some sort of answers for my lab before meeting with almost half of my class to go over what we've each individually found. At the end of term, I am definately having a book burning party for this manual! ... Read more

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Environmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment.

• Provides the historical perspective that is typically missing from recent work in environmental anthropology
• Includes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume’s editors
• Offers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations
• Divided into five thematic sections: (1) the nature/culture divide; (2) relationship between environment and social organization; (3) methodological debates and innovations; (4) politics and practice; and (5) epistemological issues of environmental anthropology
• Organized into a series of paired papers, which ‘speak’ to each other, designed to encourage readers to make connections that they might not customarily make

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Culture and the Environment - A Relationship
This book was a part of my Environmental ANthropology Undergraduate course. Out of the three main books we used, this one stands as my favorite. It provides a wonderful variety of case studies and various points of view from all over the world. I highly recommend this book both for course work and for your own everyday knowledge. ... Read more

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The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, life and death may be redefined as partial or contingent --brain death-- or reconstituted altogether --virtual or artificial life. On the other hand, the finality and reality of death resists such classifications. This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural comparison. The political economy of body parts, organ and tissue harvesting, bio-prospecting, and the patenting of life-forms are explored herein, as well as governance and regulation in cloning, organ transplantation, tissue engineering, and artificial life systems procedures. ... Read more

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Life and Death
The book focuses on the transformation of our concepts of life and death, revealing an unexpected variety and complexity of approaches, results and implications. Though written nearly exclusively by anthropologists - as the subtitle clearly indicates -, many of them favouring constructivist conceptions of science, the authors resisted the temptation which characterized so many analyses of the past decades, to simply condemn the natural sciences as something awful that should be stopped or controlled as much as possible. Instead, most essays greatly illuminate the grey areas between recent scientific research and the sociopolitical questions that arise, and are thus interesting for all people touching it. ... Read more

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Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz provide the first critical history and in-depth appraisal of this movement, examining key works, filmmakers, and theorists, from André Bazin and the Italian neorealists, to American documentary films of the 1960s, to extended discussions of the ethnographic films of Herb Di Gioia, David Hancock, and David MacDougall. They make a new case for the importance of observational work in an emerging experimental anthropology, arguing that this medium exemplifies a non-textual anthropology that is both analytically rigorous and epistemologically challenging.

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Physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. This book presents and reviews data on physical anthropology, including such topics as: sex determination of human skeletal and dental remains in palaeodemographic reconstructions; age and sex differences in aggregated and disaggregated upper limb osteoarthritis, muscle marker, external metric, and cross-sectional variables of 131 prehistoric California Amerinds to determine asymmetry patterns; a review of the variation in the angle of the femoral neck-shaft angle and its relation to climatic adaptation; and, others. ... Read more

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Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She argues for the use of vision as a critical tool with which anthropologists can address issues of knowledge and technique. The first part of the book critically examines anthropology's history, focusing on the work of key individuals--Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--in the context of early modern art and cinema. In the book's second part, Grimshaw considers the anthropological films of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. ... Read more

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