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Living Tribes
by Colin Prior
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191).... ( read more)
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Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
by Zdenek Salzmann
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Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... ( read more)
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Cooperation & Competition Among Primitve Peoples
by Margaret Mead
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-544) and index.... ( read more)
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The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
by Robert Carlsen
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After a decade of military occupation known as la violencia, the Tz'utujil-speaking Maya of Santiago Atitlan stood up to the Guatemalan Army in 1990 and forced it to leave their town. Yet that act of solidarity did not close the widening internal... ( read more)
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Current Studies in Linguistics #16: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
by Noam Chomsky
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Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and... ( read more)
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Fluid Signs
by Valentine E Daniel
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"Fluid Signs" is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues... ( read more)
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The Poetics of Military Occupation
by Smadar Lavie
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The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under... ( read more)
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Her-Bak: Egyptian Initiation
by Schwaller De Lubricz
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In these fictional accounts, Ancient Egypt is made accessible, revealed through the eyes of young Her-Bak, candidate for initiation into the Inner Temple.... ( read more)
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The El Mozotet Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights (Hegemony and Experience)
by Leigh Binford
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In relating the story of this tragic event, Binford restores a sense of history and social identity to the fallen people of this Salvadoran village. Drawing on interviews he conducted with El Mozote--area residents, he offers a rich ethnographic and... ( read more)
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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, & Politics
by Fred R Myers
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The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. Despite their extended relocation in central Australian settlements, they have managed to preserve much of... ( read more)
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Power in the Southern Cone Borderlands: An Anthropology of Development Practice
by Carmen A Ferradas
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The saga of the Yacyreta hydroelectric project on the Argentina-Paraguay border not only illustrates the radical change in the power dynamics of the Latin American Southern Cone region, but also reflects the transformation of development discourse and... ( read more)
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The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution (Helix Books)
by Luig Cavalli Sforza
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza draws upon his lifelong work in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, molecular biology, and linguistics, to address the basic questions of human origins and diversity. Coauthored by his son, Francesco, the book answers age-old... ( read more)
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The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan
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When Elaine Morgan wrote The Descent of Woman in 1972, it sent shock waves around the world, and is now widely regarded as a key work on human evolution, and essential to any discussion of women's place in society. Now, with The Scars of Evolution... ( read more)
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
by Pierre Clastres
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'Can there be a society that is not divided into oppressors and oppressed, or that refuses coercive state apparatuses? In this landmark text in anthropology and political science, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that... ( read more)
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Dancing with the Virgin
by Deidre Sklar
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Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we know what we know? Where do we... ( read more)
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Return to Nisa
by Marjorie Shostak
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The story of two women--one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist--this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung... ( read more)
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Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering
by Alfred Korzybski
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This book is primarily a study of man and ultimately embraces all the great qualities and problems of man. As a study of man it takes into consideration all the characteristics which make man what he is. Contents: Method and Processes of Approach to a... ( read more)
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Families as We Are: Conversations from Around the World
by Perdita Huston
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A recent speech by Gary Bauer from the conservative Family Research Council decried the decline of traditional family values as "a moral earthquake in our society." But what are "traditional family values?" How are family values and the realities that... ( read more)
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Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa (Studies in Environment and History)
by Robert Harms
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In this book, Robert Harms makes an important advance toward recovering the history of the people of the rain forest by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. Using concepts drawn from game... ( read more)
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The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera
by David E Stuart
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This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.... ( read more)
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