Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi ...

Upon first consideration, sport and art seem to occupy separate, even opposing, realms--sport, associated with physical prowess, and art, with the highest reaches of the human ...

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This lively, innovative book presents cultural anthropology as an adventure--focusing on students' curiosity about their own participation in humanness and incorporating the ...