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To Harvest, to Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West by Judith L Li Publisher Comments To Harvest, To Hunt is a rich collection of writings that reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters, oral traditions, historical records, and personal... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Number Our Days (Touchstone Books) by Barbara G Myerhoff Publisher Comments When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos by Nick Jans Publisher Comments From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska by William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell Publisher Comments Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, this book "includes thirty-six...illustrated articles by American and Soviet... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers #2: Nine Visits to the Mythworld by Ghandl Publisher Comments The nine stories contained in this volume are the finest offerings from one of the last of the traditional Haida storytellers, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. Ghandl was born in 1851 in a small Haida island community off the coast of British Columbia. His... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast by Aaron Glass Publisher Comments The late nineteenth century was a period of rapid colonization and dramatic change for the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of America. Objects of Exchange approaches the material culture of the period as visual evidence of shifting... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Childs investigates the greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest. The Anasazi, the native peoples who by the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico), built a flourishing cultural center. By the 13th century, the Anasazi were... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Island Within by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Antler on the Sea: The Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Anna M Kerttula Publisher Comments Anna M. Kerttula offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup'ik community, it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup'ik, native hunters of sea... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Searching for Lost City: On the Trail of America's Native Languages by Elizabeth Seay Publisher Comments What do we lose when a language disappears? Today, more languages than ever before are endangered. Choctaw, Creek, Comanche, and Ponca are just a few of the more than one hundred Native American languages quickly moving towards extinction. The question... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Burnt Corn Pueblo: Conflict and Conflagration in the Galisteo Basin, A.D. 1250-1325 by James E Snead Publisher Comments The Galisteo Basin of northern New Mexico has been a staple of archaeological research since it was first studied almost a century ago. This first book on the area since 1914 lays out an overview of the area, with research provided by the Tano Origins... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M Turner Publisher Comments Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turners admittedly fragmentary ethnographic... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $36.95 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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West of the thirties :discoveries among the Navajo and Hopi by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments From 1933 to 1937, the great American anthropologist Edward T. Hall lived and worked on reservations in the Southwest, a frontier where four cultures--Navajo, Hopi, Hispanic, and Anglo--clashed. Re-creating that stark and haunting landscape, Hall pieces... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Indians and Archaeology of Missouri by Carl H Chapman Publisher Comments This expanded edition of Indians and Archaeology of Missouri gives an excellent introduction to the cultural development of Missouri’s Indians during the past twelve thousand years. Providing a new chapter on the Hunter Foragers of the Dalton... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ocracokers by Alton Ballance Publisher Comments North Carolina's Ocracoke island has produced a remarkably cohesive community of islanders. For more than two centuries, these Ocracokers lived in relative isolation, enjoying the beauty and battling the destructive forces of the Atlantic. In the past... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell Publisher Comments Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve out a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles Korth's amazing life and adventures, creating a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture #21: A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado by Carole M. Counihan Publisher Comments Located in the southern San Luis Valley of Colorado, the remote and relatively unknown town of Antonito is home to an overwhelmingly Hispanic population struggling not only to exist in an economically depressed and politically marginalized area, but also... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics by Michael H. Crawford Publisher Comments Who are the Native Americans? When and how did they colonize the New World? What proportion of the biological variation in contemporary Amerindian populations was "made in America" and what was brought from Siberia? This book is a unique synthesis of the... (read more) List Price $123.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travelers to the Other World: A Maya View of North America by Romin Teratol Publisher Comments Laughlin presents a selection of the journals of Zinacantec Maya Romín Teratol and Antzelmo Pérez, describing their journeys to the United States in 1963 and 1967.... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory by Virginia Kerns Synopsis A thorough analysis of Julian Steward’s life and work and the history of the discipline of anthropology during his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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