The volume describes the Chinampa Agricultural System, its history and its role in Aztec empire-building. It contains a chapter on the history of Aztecs and the ...more on ebook "Chinampas: Their Role in Aztec Empi..."

Separating fact from fiction, this work shows the reader where to find the civilizations that have vanished or exist with only slight clues left among ruins. As ...more on ebook "Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civi..."

In a series of long essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals presents an in-depth look at many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, ...more on ebook "Black Rednecks and White Liberals..."

Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the ...more on ebook "Can Islam Be French?: Pluralism and..."

Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton covers a scope of major topics in human skeletal biology and will be an indispensable research guide to biological ...more on ebook "Biological Anthropology of the Huma..."

The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It ...more on ebook "Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of th..."

Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now ...more on ebook "Abraham's Children: Race, Identity,..."

Cyborgs@Cyberspace? is a compelling and innovative analysis of technology from a cultural perspective. It turns an anthropological ...more on ebook "Cyborgs@Cyberspace?..."

In this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the ...more on ebook "Berber Culture on the World Stage..."

No longer viewed as a characteristic unique to humans, brain lateralization is considered a key property of most, if not all, vertebrates. This field of study ...more on ebook "Comparative Vertebrate Lateralizati..."

It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals

The status of American Indians has long been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have ...more on ebook "A Companion to the Anthropology of ..."

Complicated Lives examines the greatest conundrum of the modern world: why, despite being richer, healthier and more empowered than ever before, do we continue ...more on ebook "Complicated Lives: The Malaise of M..."