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Oglala women :myth, ritual, and reality
by Maria Powers
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Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala... ( read more)
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
by Roger Atwood
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Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them. In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey... ( read more)
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The Harmless People
by Elizabeth M Thomas
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A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in... ( read more)
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The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
by Colin M Turnbull
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The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull... ( read more)
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Face : Natural History (00 Edition)
by Daniel Mcneill
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This "natural history" of the face unravels the surprising mysteries of one of the most familiar sights in everyday life, exploring the face's anatomy, its singularity, its ability to communicate, and its beauty.... ( read more)
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Intelligence in Nature
by Jeremy Narby
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Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels around the globe-from the Amazon basin... ( read more)
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris
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Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.... ( read more)
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Look, listen, read
by Claude Levi Strauss
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Over the course of a monumental career, Claude Lévi-Strauss has interwoven artistic materials and themes into his seminal analyses of the “savage mind.” Now the world’s most famous anthropologist turns his attention entirely to the... ( read more)
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Origins reconsidered :in search of what makes us human
by Richard E Leakey
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Renowned paleonathropologist Leakey returns to his earlier
work--especially his 1977 book Origins (also co-authored by science
writer Lewin)--to poke holes in his previous beliefs, but more
importantly to reassess how we became "human," and what... ( read more)
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Transforming Qualitative Data: Description, Analysis, and Interpretation
by Harry F Wolcott
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The process of analyzing qualitative data and producing a complete study is discussed in this book. Breaking down the transformation process into description, analysis and interpretation, Harry Wolcott discusses these three related activities. To... ( read more)
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
by James P Spradley
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Reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1970.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... ( read more)
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Cannibals and Kings
by Marvin Harris
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In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions.... ( read more)
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What's Love Got to Do with It?
by Meredith F Small
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In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love with... ( read more)
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In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown
by David A Mcmurray
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Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... ( read more)
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Unwrapping a Mummy: The Life, Death, and Embalming of Horemkenesi (Title Page Only) (Egyptian Bookshelf)
by John H Taylor
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Horemkenesi was an Egyptian priest and official who lived at Thebes in the eleventh century B.C. The unwrapping and scientific examination of his mummified body (the last such investigation to have been carried out in Britain) provided a rare opportunity... ( read more)
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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia
by Harvey Arden
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Cast a aside all things familiar and join Harvey Arden on an extraordinary spirit-journey into the minds, hearts, and dreams of australia's aboriginal peoples, custodians of the oldest culture on earth. Through haunting photographs and an exquisitely... ( read more)
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Anthropology As Cultural Critique: an Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
by George E. Marcus
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Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and... ( read more)
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Voices from Asia #11: Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale
by Katsuichi Honda
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A memoir of Ainu life over five hundred years ago, before Japanese invasions nearly killed off this indigenous society. No written records remain, other than Japanese observations, but the author has relied on surviving oral accounts and extensive study... ( read more)
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
by Donna J Haraway
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The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... ( read more)
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Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers
by David Carrasco
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Chapter One Introduction: Approaching Mesoamerican Religions Inventions and Fantasies of Mesoamerica Around 1510 a Spanish reconnaissance expedition from the island of Cuba made contact with a small group of Maya Indians on a beach bordering territory... ( read more)
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