UPenn Anthropology Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Franklin RossUPenn AnthropologyCongratulations 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
$6.97Member price:$3.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Mukulika BanerjeeUPenn AnthropologyMark 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
$36.99Member price:$36.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Ancient Maya Politics
Simon MartinUPenn AnthropologyCongratulations 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
$40.00Member price:$38.00 + Free shipping5% off
Historical Archaeology: A Guide to Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
Robert SchuylerUPenn AnthropologyWe 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
$140.00Member price:$140.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
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Henry JamesUPenn AnthropologyCongratulations 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
$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
Munira KhayyatUPenn AnthropologyJoin 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
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Adriana PetrynaUPenn AnthropologyCongratulations 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
$19.95Member price:$17.96 + Free shipping10% off