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  • BIRTHS AND POWER
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    BIRTHS AND POWER
    W. PENN HANDWERKER
    This book challenges orthodox public perspectives on reproduction. It relies on participant observation, field censuses, interviews, and use of official demographic, epidemiological, and health statistics. ...

    $1,160.00

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  • CULTURE AND REPRODUCTION
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    CULTURE AND REPRODUCTION
    W. PENN HANDWERKER
    This book originated in a conference on Culture and Reproduction held at the University of California. It discusses conceptual changes in demographic theory, focuses on micro-level issues, and explores linkages between micro-level processes and the macro-level constraints that shape those processes.  World population growth, especially its fertility component, poses a major dil...

    $1,200.00

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  • THE ORIGIN OF CULTURES
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    THE ORIGIN OF CULTURES
    W PENN HANDWERKER
    What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of culture—what it is, where it comes fr...

    $1,120.00

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  • OUR STORY
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    OUR STORY
    W PENN HANDWERKER
    The story of human evolution, or Our Story, is about the development and refinement of cultures. Individuals cannot do things on their own, this book argues; their choices are driven by heuristics, biases, illogical preferences, and irrational assumptions about the nature of reality. So how did humanity survive? By forming more and more successful cultures, which are teams of p...

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