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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
by Rupert Isaacson
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Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland -- which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia -- to find out the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari... ( read more)
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Silencing the Past
by Michel-ro Trouillot
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'Silencing the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of historical narrative. Taking examples ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Columbus Day, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of... ( read more)
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Margaret Mead: A Life
by Jane Howard
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Howard's definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead's professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert.... ( read more)
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Saudades Do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir
by Claude Levi Strauss
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'In the mid-1930s, a young French ethnographer named Claude Levi-Strauss ventured by rail, truck, canoe, and horseback into the Brazilian interior to document the cultural habits of tribal groups whose numbers and customs were still somewhat protected by... ( read more)
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Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog #26: Human Paleobiology
by Robert B Eckhardt
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Explores adaptability and variation in past and present human populations.... ( read more)
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Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture
by Michael Moffatt
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Coming Of Age is about college as students really know it and often love it. To write this remarkable account, Michael Moffatt did what anthropologists usually do in more distant cultures: he lived among the natives. His findings are sometimes disturbing,... ( read more)
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Medicine Women Curanderas & Women Doctors
by Bobette Perrone
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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural heaing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women... ( read more)
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Anahulu Volume 2
by Patrick V Kirch
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From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent... ( read more)
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Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
by Richard Nile and Christian Clerk
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This guide for both intrepid and armchair travelers covers this diverse region of the Pacific and all its peoples and rich traditions.... ( read more)
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In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
by Adam Bellow
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Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number... ( read more)
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In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
by Mario Blaser
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Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed... ( read more)
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What's Wrong with Ethnography?
by Martyn Hammersley
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This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions.
""What's Wrong With Ethnography" provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of... ( read more)
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
by Nancy N Chen
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The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal... ( read more)
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Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought
by James D Faubion
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Since the early 1970's, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. "Rethinking the Subject" brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of... ( read more)
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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
by Lila Abu Lughod
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In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments... ( read more)
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Feral Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature
by Douglas Candland
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In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans "think," we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. Weaving together diaries,... ( read more)
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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya
by Cynt Hoehler Fatton
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The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the Luo region of western Kenya. This movement has fascinated students of history and religion for more than sixty years, but surprisingly... ( read more)
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Sexual Cultures: Community, Values, & Intimacy
by Jeffrey Weeks
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One of three volume of papers from a 1994 conference held at the
University of Central Lancashire. Contributors demonstrate how the
social shapes the sexual and how the sexual becomes a focal point for
personal identity, values, and political action... ( read more)
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Word and Object (Studies in Communication)
by Willard Van O Quine
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Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective... ( read more)
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Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth & Modernity in So. India
by Cecilia Van Hollen
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This is an ethnographic study of the ways in which modernity is impacting the experiences of poor women during childbirth in Tamil Nadu, South India, and of the cultural constructions of gender produced in this process.<P>... ( read more)
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