UPenn Anthropology Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The American
Franklin Ross
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Martin! His book, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE has picked up a further award, the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association. 🎉
Paperback, 2015
$6.97$3.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Mukulika Banerjee
Mark your calendars! 🗓️ April 7th - Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India A Virtual Book Talk with the Author, Mukulika Banerjee https://t.co/OBrzH7lr4I @SouthAsiaCenter @CASIPenn https://t.co/hkn9sjdXSf
Paperback, 2021
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ancient Maya Politics
Simon Martin
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Martin! His book, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE has picked up a further award, the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association. 🎉
Paperback, 2022
$37.99$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Historical Archaeology: A Guide to Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
Robert Schuyler
We are sad to hear of the passing of Dr. Robert Schuyler on May 13th. Dr. Schuyler was with our department since 1979. He was an advocate of historical archaeology being an integral part of general anthropology & for a cultural evolutionary approach to understanding human history https://t.co/gLLm0nTSRc
Paperback, 1978
$140.00$115.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The American
Henry James
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Martin! His book, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE has picked up a further award, the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association. 🎉
Paperback, 2009
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
Munira Khayyat
Join us on Monday, 4/17 @ 12pm in Penn Museum room 345 for our next colloquium with Munira Khayyat of @AUC ! "A Landscape of War" https://t.co/7sNFVa3Wdz
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Adriana Petryna
Congratulations to Penn Anthro’s Prof Adriana Petryna, whose book Horizon Work received the 2022 Diana Forsythe Prize, which “exemplifies the spirit of feminist anthropological research on work, science, or technology, including biomedicine.” 🎉👏 https://t.co/YHAhnCCJPp https://t.co/zetzqURCym
Paperback, 2024
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book