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Chelsea House Publishers, Infobase Publishing, 2004. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0. Still in shrink-wrap. Hardcover.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Softcover. Good Plus. 6x0x9. [ANTHROPOLOGY]. Bartra, Roger. Translator: Gusti Gould. "Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. English language. Softcover. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 15 x 1 cm. 12 oz. pp. ix, 200. Price in pencil on first page. Ink underlining. Front cover slightly bows. Good Plus. ISBN: 9781107629820."In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic… Read More

Wiley-Blackwell, American Anthropological Association; Hoboken, NJ, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. [CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY]. Eds. Kim and Mike Fortun; Contributors: George E. Marcus, Heather Paxson, Cymene Howe, Anand Pandian, Brian Silverstein, Omri Elisha. "Cultural Anthropology: February 2008, Volume 23 Number 1." Wiley-Blackwell, American Anthropological Association; Hoboken, NJ, 2008. English language academic journal. Softcover. 189 pages. Contents: Post Pasteurian Cultures, Microbiopolitics of Raw Milk and Cheese in the United States, Televisionary Activism in Nicaragua, Pastoral Power in the Postcolony, Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India, etc. Clean text. Near Fine. No ISBN. "Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with theoretical issues, with ethnographic methods and… Read More

Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, the British Academy, 2010. Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. 9x1x6. [ANTHROPOLOGY]. Eds. Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett. Contributors: Yonas Beyene, Julia Lehmann, Robert Layton, Anna Wallette, Julie Hui, et al. "Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Proceedings of the British Academy 158)." Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, the British Academy, 2010. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Academic articles with black and white illustrations and images. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 43 oz. pp. xviii, 528. Small tear in jacket at bottom spine. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Ink underlining and marginalia. Vast majority of text clean. Good Plus in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9780197264522."To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of… Read More