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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture by Kendrick Frazier Publisher Comments In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930 by Don D Fowler Publisher Comments The history of anthropological and archaeological endeavor in the American Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the New Deal.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Opatas: In Search of a Sonoran People (Southwest Center) by David A Yetman Publisher Comments Today, though their descendants presumably live on in Sonora, almost no one claims descent from the "patas. David Yetman has traveled extensively in Sonora and brings together conversations with present day residents and archival research to illuminate... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities (Religion by Region) by Wade Roof Publisher Comments An overview of public religion in California, Nevada, and Hawaii.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency by David E Stuart Publisher Comments Stuart demonstrates how the descendants of the Chaco survivors who relocated to Bandlier and the Pajarito Plateau rebalanced their society to be more efficient and practical in order to survive.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz Publisher Comments History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee by James Mooney Publisher Comments Classic of American anthropology explores messianic cult behind Indian resistance, from Pontiac to the 1890s. Extremely detailed, thorough account, citing many primary documents as well as Mooney's own anthropological data. Originally published in 1896... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities by Albert James Arnold Publisher Comments The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows brings a fresh... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $15.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America by Tad Tuleja Synopsis Fourteen authors examine the traditional expressions of a variety of groups from the U.S. and Canada who continually reinvent their identities as usable pasts.... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patri Jones Jackson Publisher Comments A celebration of the lives and literature of the free descendents of slaves from Barbados and West Africa.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reserve Memories: The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) by David W Dinwoodie Publisher Comments Reserve Memories examines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. For over five centuries the Chilcotin people have lived in relative... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide (Arizona and the Southwest) by David Grant Noble Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes thirteen newly opened archaeological sites. Noble provides directions to each site, nearby towns, and campgrounds.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Smells Like Rain a Naturalist in Papago Indian Country by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla by Merida M Rua Publisher Comments This study reclaims and builds upon the classic work of anthropologist Elena Padilla in an effort to examine constructions of space and identity among Latinos. The volume includes an annotated edition of Padilla's 1947 University of Chicago master'... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America by Gelya Frank Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary ethnography comes to terms with the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born without arms or legs, over the course of the author's twenty-year friendship with her.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Before the Storm: A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942 by Fredericka I. Martin Publisher Comments From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and Before the Storm... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Santeria From Africa To the New World : the Dead Sell Memories (93 Edition) by George Brandon Publisher Comments On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora. --American Historical Review He adeptly addresses broader issues... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 by William M. M. Denevan Publisher Comments William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color by William M Ferguson Publisher Comments The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700 B.C. to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World S Rim: Great Mysteries of the North American Indians by Hartley B Alexander Publisher Comments Classic ethnological study of the idea that Native Americans and other cultures in distant parts of the world have created identical ritual patterns to express their separate discoveries of a single insight. "For anyone who wishes a good, readable... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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