Social Scientists & Psychologists Books


Freud: Inventor of the Modern MindFreud: Inventor of the Modern Mind
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Often referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud championed the...
Adventures of a PsychicAdventures of a Psychic
In this uniquely fascinating book, world-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne recounts her captivating...
Never Forget To Laugh: Personal Recollections of Bill Thetford, Co-Scribe of A Course In MiraclesNever Forget To Laugh: Personal Recollections of Bill Thetford, Co-Scribe of A Course In Miracles
This comprehensive biography integrates the facts of Bill Thetford?s life with Course teachings...
A European LifeA European Life
Michael Tracy grew up in Scotland during the war of 1939-45. After gaining scholarships to...
Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social PsychologistNot by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist
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How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a...


The Theory of the Growth of the FirmThe Theory of the Growth of the Firm
This 'goldmine of concepts for understanding business and industrial organization' was...
B.F. Skinner: Benign AnarchistB.F. Skinner: Benign Anarchist
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This work, written by a former student, colleague and friend, provides a biography of B.F....
Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of PsychoanalysisFreud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
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For those interested in the history of psychoanalysis in general and Freud's inner circle in...
Frantz Fanon: A BiographyFrantz Fanon: A Biography
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This book, though enormous, was an easy and entertaining read. I have really only one...
HIGH ADVENTURE LIFE LUCY (Women in American Protestant Religion 1800-1930)HIGH ADVENTURE LIFE LUCY (Women in American Protestant Religion 1800-1930)
Pioneer American Methodist Woman Leader.


The Guaymas Chronicles: La MandaderaThe Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera
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I was given this book by the author, who is my cousin. He is an extraordenery person but I was...
Zone of Tolerance:  The Guaymas ChroniclesZone of Tolerance: The Guaymas Chronicles
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This is the 2nd half of the 2 book story. "Guaymas Chronicles - La Mandadera" was the...
Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native AmericaNotes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America
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The title of this lively collection of Jace Weaver's essays comes from Felix Cohen, the...
Jung: A Journey of Transformation: Exploring His Life and Experiencing His IdeasJung: A Journey of Transformation: Exploring His Life and Experiencing His Ideas
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This is one of the best introductions to the thought and life of Carl Jung. It covers all of...
Horse SenseHorse Sense
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections (A dramatic reading by Michael York)Memories, Dreams, Reflections (A dramatic reading by Michael York)
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections C.G. Jung. A classic autobiography introduces the work of...
In and Out the Garbage PailIn and Out the Garbage Pail
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This book appears to be a less colorful reprint of the original that was published by Real...
Tales from the Middle Border (Borderland Books)Tales from the Middle Border (Borderland Books)
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Richard Quinney has spent a lifetime getting "here," back home to a Wisconsin farm,...
Nothing Was the Same: A MemoirNothing Was the Same: A Memoir
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Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison-who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist...
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume VPortraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume V
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(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) Offers a glimpse into the personal and scholarly lives of some of...

Margaret Mead: A BiographyMargaret Mead: A Biography
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When Coming of Age in Samoa was published in 1928, the book quickly became a bestseller and...
Academic Skating on Thin IceAcademic Skating on Thin Ice
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Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer...
Carl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary an Oral HistoryCarl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary an Oral History
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Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), a founder of the humanistic psychology movement, is one of the most...
Pain Behind the Smile: My Battle with BulimiaPain Behind the Smile: My Battle with Bulimia
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As I read this book I remembered my aspects of my own eating disorder. I felt as though demons...
Renewal of Life: Healing from the HolocaustRenewal of Life: Healing from the Holocaust
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The author, a world-renowned psychoanalyst, was rescued from Nazi-occupied France as a child and...

The Other American : The Untold Life of Michael HarringtonThe Other American : The Untold Life of Michael Harrington
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The Other American is required reading for any activist on the left with an interest in how the...
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
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Douglas Coupland (born 1961), the prolific Canadian novelist, has written a short book about the...
The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)
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"Rainer Funk's edited book is immensely valuable because it presents Fromm's...
To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret MeadTo Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific...
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume VPortraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume V
Best Price: $34.27
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) Offers a glimpse into the personal and scholarly lives of some of...

Margaret Mead: A BiographyMargaret Mead: A Biography
Best Price: $6.71
When Coming of Age in Samoa was published in 1928, the book quickly became a bestseller and...
Academic Skating on Thin IceAcademic Skating on Thin Ice
Best Price: $4.98
Peter Worsley's studies at Cambridge were interrupted by war service as a communist officer...
Carl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary an Oral HistoryCarl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary an Oral History
Best Price: $86.89
Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), a founder of the humanistic psychology movement, is one of the most...
Pain Behind the Smile: My Battle with BulimiaPain Behind the Smile: My Battle with Bulimia
Best Price: $0.64
As I read this book I remembered my aspects of my own eating disorder. I felt as though demons...
Renewal of Life: Healing from the HolocaustRenewal of Life: Healing from the Holocaust
Best Price: $19.70
The author, a world-renowned psychoanalyst, was rescued from Nazi-occupied France as a child and...

The Other American : The Untold Life of Michael HarringtonThe Other American : The Untold Life of Michael Harrington
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The Other American is required reading for any activist on the left with an interest in how the...
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
Best Price: $16.32
Douglas Coupland (born 1961), the prolific Canadian novelist, has written a short book about the...
The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)
Best Price: $22.08
"Rainer Funk's edited book is immensely valuable because it presents Fromm's...
To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret MeadTo Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific...
Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great MindsPauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds
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"Pauli & Jung: The Meetings of Two Great Minds," David Lindorff, IL, Quest Books,...

Tender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse InvestigatorTender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator
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I gave this book 4 stars because it was a very good, easy read. The author did a great job, and...
Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: An American Healer (Profiles in Healing series)Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: An American Healer (Profiles in Healing series)
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I am so glad to first read about Milton Erickson from this book. I am so glad to have a window...
Almost Famous: An AutobiographyAlmost Famous: An Autobiography
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Here is an autobiography that only a clinical psychologist could write. Dr. Munter's story...
The Dark Menace of the UniverseThe Dark Menace of the Universe
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Last month Tom Filsinger, Associate Professor of Psychlogy at Jamestown Community College in...
Horace Mann: His Ideas And IdealsHorace Mann: His Ideas And Ideals
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness IndustryThe Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's...
My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern MagicianMy Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
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This book is an autobiography. But it differs from most as it is also a teaching tool, with the...
All the Strange HoursAll the Strange Hours
A Conversation with Loren Eisely with Dr. Eisely (All The Strange Hours: The Excavations of a...
Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and TeachingsJung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings
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After breezing through this book - as it seemed fitting to do - I was left wondering why Lachman...
I Am Not What I Am: A Psychologist's Memoir Notes on Managing Personal MisfortuneI Am Not What I Am: A Psychologist's Memoir Notes on Managing Personal Misfortune
This is a compelling book. To understand that a life can be lived fully and with great gusto-...

Woman with Demons: The Life of Kamiya MiekoWoman with Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko
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Kamiya Mieko, the Japanese writer, psychiatrist, professor, and mystic, was a far more complex...
Biographical Dictionary of AnthropologistsBiographical Dictionary of Anthropologists
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This biographical dictionary provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are...
When the Music Stopped: Discovering my MotherWhen the Music Stopped: Discovering my Mother
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This is a story about a fascinating woman, the writer's mother Gitta Gradova, a brilliant...
Fool For Christ: The Intellectual Politics of J.S. WoodsworthFool For Christ: The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national...
The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place (Texts and Contexts)The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place (Texts and Contexts)
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Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places...

Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two PsychologistsPerceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists
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What stands as Eleanor Gibson's concluding remarks on her life as a psychologist is, in...
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan BorderAmritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed...
Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist (Southwest Center Series)Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist (Southwest Center Series)
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Archeology today is a Science, with a capital "S". To work sucessfully in that...
The Road from Frijoles Canyon: Anthropolitical Adventures on Four ContinentsThe Road from Frijoles Canyon: Anthropolitical Adventures on Four Continents
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What a great read. I always wondered what Anthropoligists do, now I know, they study...
William Ewart Gladstone And His Contemporaries: Fifty Years Of Social And Political ProgressWilliam Ewart Gladstone And His Contemporaries: Fifty Years Of Social And Political Progress
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...

High Adventure: Life Of Lucy Rider Meyer,High Adventure: Life Of Lucy Rider Meyer,
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Pioneer American Methodist Woman Leader.
The Diary of a Pick Up Artist: Memoirs of an Average Frustrated ChumpThe Diary of a Pick Up Artist: Memoirs of an Average Frustrated Chump
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Adam Lyons tells the story through his own personal Diary of his ascent from being a single...
Trickster: An Anthropological MemoirTrickster: An Anthropological Memoir
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I have always been fascinated by anthropology, but only lately have I started to study it in any...
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)
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Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence...
Psychopath TestPsychopath Test
This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a...

Father, Have I Kept My Promise?Father, Have I Kept My Promise?
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In 1937 Edith had received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna, and high...
A Working Stiff's Manifesto: Confessions of a Wage SlaveA Working Stiff's Manifesto: Confessions of a Wage Slave
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Despite what the title might suggest, "A Working Stiff's Manifesto" is hardly a...
Victory After The Fall: The Memories Of Civil Rights Activist H.k. MatthewsVictory After The Fall: The Memories Of Civil Rights Activist H.k. Matthews
While I don't doubt the author's experience is interesting, if one credits their...
Digging Up a PastDigging Up a Past
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Known as a historian, conservationist, leading public intellectual, and, most famously, the...
Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the PalaeolithicDorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
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Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge...

The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's MemoirsThe Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs
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Her family had heaps of money, and some said her father was the richest man in England, though...
Muchas Vidas Muchos Maestros (Spanish Edition)Muchas Vidas Muchos Maestros (Spanish Edition)Carl Gustav Jung: Su Vida, su Obra, su Influencia (Spanish Edition)Carl Gustav Jung: Su Vida, su Obra, su Influencia (Spanish Edition)Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global PolisOtto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis
Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given...
Autobombo (Spanish Edition)Autobombo (Spanish Edition)
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Estoy seguro de que hasta el argentino que jamas ha oido mencionar su nombre una vez se pondra...

G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep and The Strange Life of P.D. OuspenskyG.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep and The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky
A bargain price for two hard-to-find books. Wilson provides an excellent introduction to the...
Freud A to ZFreud A to Z
A lively guide to the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis From Anna O. to Zionism,...
A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A MemoirA Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir
Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor...
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat HospitalRule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
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An excellent book, it makes you think deeply about questions that have no answers. When a person...
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 (Vol 3)John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 (Vol 3)
This is the third and final volume of this biography. Dealing with the period from 1937, when...

Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a PsychoanalystFinal Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst
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It might come as a shock to some readers to discover what goes on in the dark halls of...
People In Trouble (Emotional Plague of Mankind)People In Trouble (Emotional Plague of Mankind)
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You know why Dr. Reich appeared paranoid is because know it alls like the previous reviewer...
Greatness and Limitations (Meridian)Greatness and Limitations (Meridian)
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I cant believe how much i learned from this book. And i have never taken a phsyc. course! This...
Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social PsychologistNot by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist
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I wouldn't have guessed I had much in common with Elliot Aronson. From a distance, he...
Alexander Graham Bell: A LifeAlexander Graham Bell: A Life
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While this is an interesting work, unfortunately it is also fatally flawed. In 2001 the...

Adam SmithAdam Smith
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now...
A Doctor's Legacy: A Memoir of Merlin K. DuVal Founding Dean of Arizona's First Medical SchoolA Doctor's Legacy: A Memoir of Merlin K. DuVal Founding Dean of Arizona's First Medical School
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'He had a sorcerer's name and the bearing of a prince' - thus Linda Valdez...
Recollections: An AutobiographyRecollections: An Autobiography
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Viktor Frankl has presented us with snap shots of the key events in his life. These...
Harold Innis (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)Harold Innis (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)
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His name may not be as well known as that of his colleague and spiritual descendent, Marshall...
Servant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna OdysseyServant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna Odyssey
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Gabriel Brandis's book is paradoxical - he gives in many ways a very intimate look into the...

The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality DisorderThe Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder
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Most of us think of Multiple Personality Disorder in terms of 'Sybil,' or 'The Three...
The WHEEL OF LIFE: MEMOIR OF LIVING & DYING CASSETTE: A Memoir of Living and DyingThe WHEEL OF LIFE: MEMOIR OF LIVING & DYING CASSETTE: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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IF you want to be touched and moved by love and tears...this is it. one of the great books that...
Freud at 150: Twenty First Century Essays on a Man of GeniusFreud at 150: Twenty First Century Essays on a Man of Genius
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The year 2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, the father of...
Rudyard Kipling Part 1 of 2Rudyard Kipling Part 1 of 2
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Kipling’s words give the key to understanding his real, but sadly limited,...
Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970sBeyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s
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B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century...

Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
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Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography...
Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud HutInnocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
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I had the good fortune to discover this book when it was first printed, and have since read it...
Edward P. Dozier: The Paradox of the American Indian AnthropologistEdward P. Dozier: The Paradox of the American Indian Anthropologist
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Edward P. Dozier was the first American Indian to establish a career as an academic...
The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing (Southwest Center Series)The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing (Southwest Center Series)
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In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological...
 
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