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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lectures) by Wade Davis Synopsis Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the worlds indigenous... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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One River by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett Publisher Comments Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shadows in the Sun (98 Edition) by Wade Davis Publisher Comments Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Caribbean Contours (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture) by Sidney Mintz Publisher Comments In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America by Kay B. Warren Publisher Comments "In summary, this is an excellent book that I would highly recommend. It is well written and very thought provoking, and is certainly going on the reading lists for at least two of my courses. Though the focus is on Latin America, I think that this would... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett Publisher Comments A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Piraha in 1977... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town by Robert Carlsen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres Publisher Comments Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an unsentimental yet sympathetic depiction of the year anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent with a so-called 'savage' tribe of Indians in Paraguay in 1963. It describes the everyday life and habits, ritual and... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Translated Woman Crossing the Border With Esperanza by Ruth Behar Synopsis The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new preface Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernandez, a Mexican street peddler. A brave... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Speaking Relationally: Culture, Communication, and Interpersonal Connection (Guilford Series on Personal Relationships) by Kristine L Fitch Synopsis Deepening our understanding of the social context of interpersonal interaction, this book examines the communication practices through which members of a particular culture construct and maintain their relationships. The author presents an ethnographic... (read more) List Price $35.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World by John Mamoru Watanabe Publisher Comments The Maya of Santiago Chimaltenango have experienced increasingly rapid, even violent, integration into Guatemalan society in the last fifty years, yet they still distinguish themselves ethnically from Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and other Maya. Why this... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Reformation of Machismo by Elizabeth E Brusco Publisher Comments Protestant evangelicalism has spread rapidly in Latin America at the same time that foreign corporations have taken hold of economies there. These concurrent developments have led some observers to view this religious movement as a means of melding... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Savages by Joe Kane Publisher Comments Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Yanomami by Rob Borofsky Publisher Comments If there is one book that redefines anthropology for the 21st century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. Using the Yanomami controversy as a lens for examining anthropology itself... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $23.03 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island by Elayne Zorn Publisher Comments The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wizard of the Upper Amazon by F Bruce Lamb Publisher Comments Wizard of the Upper Amazon is an extraordinary document of the life among a tribe of South American Indians at the beginning of the 20th century. For many readers, the most compelling sections of the book will be the descriptions of the use of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cooking & Coping among the Cacti: Diet, Nutrition & Available Income in Northwestern Mexico by Roberta D Baer Publisher Comments Using data collected from 105 households in Sonora, Mexico, the author combines detailed ethnographic research with quantitative analyses of income, diet, and nutritional status to examine the dietary patterns of residents who cook and cope among the... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble (Contemporary Ethnography) by James William Wafer Publisher Comments Enter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals, folklore, and engaging personalities of the villagers of Jacari,... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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