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Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues) by Holly M Barker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index.... (read more) List Price $67.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History by Robert W Hefner Publisher Comments A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of the First Day : Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (91 Edition) by Robert Lawlor Publisher Comments In this widely praised work, you enter the nearly vanished world of the Australian Aborigines and discover a remarkable people who offer us a new perspective on our own lives and the future of our planet.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Men's Business, Women's Business: The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World's Oldest Culture by Hannah Rachel Bell Publisher Comments Beautiful stories of life in Australian Aboriginal society--where gender influences every aspect of existence--that show a new way to find happiness in our modern Western culture. The book follows an Aboriginal boy and girl from childhood through... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History by Robert W. Hefner Publisher Comments A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #1: Classificatory Particles in Kilivila by Gunter Senft Publisher Comments Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while... (read more) List Price $161.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia by Sam D Gill Publisher Comments This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practiced by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition by A P Elkin Publisher Comments ANTHROPOLOGY / RELIGIONThe first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degreepresents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Yorro Yorro: Aboriginal Creation and the Renewal of Nature: Rock Paintings and Stories from the Australian Kimberley by David Mowaljarlai and Juta Malnic Publisher Comments In a remarkable collaboration, Aboriginal elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that reaches back 60,000 years, constituting the oldest memory of humankind. Illustrated with more than 120 colour plates, Yorro Yorro tells... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Sing with Pigs Is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea by Jane Carter Goodale Publisher Comments In the course of her fieldwork with the Kaulong, who live on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, Jane Goodale recognized that everything of importance to them - every event, relationship, and transaction - was rooted in their constant quest... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium (Mythos) by Kenelm Burridge Publisher Comments Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies by Edward Schieffelin Publisher Comments This book is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge by Robert Borofsky Publisher Comments The unravelling of an anthropological puzzle concerning a Polynesian island's social organization clarifies the strength and limitations of the anthropological approach to constructing knowledge.... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art by Fred R. Myers Publisher Comments Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $24.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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New Britain Diary, 1954: An Anthropologist's Journal by Daris Swindler Publisher Comments In his Anthropologists Journal, Daris Swindler vividly captures the excitement and challenges of his first fieldwork with the Lakalai of New Britain. He relates his experiences with illuminating anecdotal and personal reflections, thus giving the reader... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World by Bruce Knauft Publisher Comments What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate... (read more) List Price $28.44 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kinship in Bali by Hildred Geertz Publisher Comments This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Short Discount Markdown - Trade Paper
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Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker Publisher Comments The Myth, Legend, and Folklore series is the product of the unique partnership between Wordsworth Editions and The Folklore Society. Folklore Society scholars provide in-depth introductions, making this the most authoritative series of its kind.... (read more) Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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