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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney
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When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz... ( read more)
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Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People
by Arun Agrawal
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"A riveting combination of sophistication in formal theory, brilliant ethnography, and analytical imagination."--James C. Scott, Yale University<BR>
"Beautifully researched and rigorously analyzed, this book will be of interest to economists... ( read more)
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
by Margery Wolf
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A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out... ( read more)
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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
by Daniel T Reff
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This book examines the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire and colonial Mexico.... ( read more)
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Tsimshian Texts
by Franz Boas
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Tsimshian Indian Myths From The Nass River Region Of British Columbia. Native Texts With English Translations.... ( read more)
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The Reckoning Heart: An Anthropologist Looks at Her Worlds
by Manisha Roy
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What exactly is the tenuous connection between an individual and culture? When does a culturaltradition cease to offer security to its members and instead becomes so confining that one must protest or rebel to survive as an individual? These issues... ( read more)
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On Fertile Ground P
by Peter T Ellison
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Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions, both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live on the plains of Africa or in North American suburbs. Our reproductive biology unites us as a species, but it has also... ( read more)
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A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World
by Carol Ann Bassett
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Drawing on her wide-ranging travels, from the Canadian Arctic to southern Chile, and from the Kalahari to the deserts of the American Southwest, Carol Ann Bassett takes readers on an intimate journey into the communities, ceremonies, and lives of... ( read more)
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African exodus :the origins of modern humanity
by Chris Stringer
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Once in a Generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity, has set off one of the most... ( read more)
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Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology #4: Sex and Gender Hierarchies
by Barbara Dian Miller
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A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles--and expectations--of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of... ( read more)
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Mexican Memoir: A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca
by Howard Campbell
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Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI. An anthropologist who married a Zapotec woman, the author chronicles his fieldwork in... ( read more)
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Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology
by Paul Kutsche
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Contains 25 college-level field assignments relating to five themes:
mapping a city block, private language, body language, ritual, and
students' illustrative ethnographies. Each section contains
Kutsche's (professor emeritus, anthropology, Colorado... ( read more)
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Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists & the Native American Southwest
by Nancy J Parezo
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Analyzes the role women scholars have played understanding and interpreting Native American cultures of the Southwest.... ( read more)
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Hahalis and the Labour of Love (Explorations in Anthropology)
by Max Rimoldi
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This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first... ( read more)
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The Combing of History
by David William Cohen
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How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of... ( read more)
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Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
by Betty Mindlin
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284).... ( read more)
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Head Hunters of the Amazon: My Adventures in the Jungle, 1894-1901
by F W Up De Graff
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One of the all-time greatest adventure books. Up de Graff tells of his unbelievable adventures in the Amazon during the late 1800s.... ( read more)
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Indigenous Religions: A Companion
by Graham Harvey
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Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions. This Companion shows how much they can contribute to a richer understanding of human identity, action, and relationships.An international team of contributors discuss representative... ( read more)
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Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu
by James A Pritchett
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Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, "Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu" offers an insider's view into the day-to-day lives... ( read more)
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Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships
by Richard W Bulliet
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Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present.... ( read more)
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