Anthropology

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Building a New Biocultural Synthesis

Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Edited by Alan H. Goodman & Thomas Leland Leatherman
Subjects: Anthropology, Health & Medicine
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Shows the potential for a reintegrated, critical, and politically relevant biocultural anthropology

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

Innovation and Individuality in African Development

Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali

By Dolores Koenig, Tieman Diarra, and Moussa Sow
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Directly confronts myths of an exotic Africa, full of insoluble problems

The Allure of the Foreign

Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America

Edited by Benjamin Orlove
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Latin American Studies, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A rich analysis of the internal social factors that drive the demand for foreign goods

Culture and Global Change

Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest in Mexico

By Lourdes Arizpe, Fernanda Paz, and Margarita Velazquez
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Offers a model for how to gather information on the human dimensions of global change

Diagnosing America

Anthropology and Public Engagement

Edited by Shepard Forman
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A clarion call to anthropologists to help address critical social problems that tear at the fabric of our society

The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America

Edited by Michael Painter & William Durham
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia

By Harry Sanabria
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis
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