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Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals
by Isabelle Nabokov  Publisher Comments This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that...
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Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography
by John Van Maanen Publisher Comments Once upon a time ethnographers returning from the field simply sat down, shuffled their note cards, and wrote up their descriptions of the exotic and quaint customs they had observed. Today scholars in all disciplines are realizing how their research is...
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The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
by Michael E Harkin Publisher Comments Rejecting many of the common methods and assumptions of ethnohistorians as unwittingly Eurocentric or simplistic, Harkin argues that the multiple perspectives, motives, and events constituting the Heiltsuks' world and history can be productively...
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Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan
by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from...
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
by William R Maples Publisher Comments From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In "Dead Men Do...
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Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper's Magazine
by Katharine Whittemore Synopsis Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, James Bladwin, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, Shelby Steele, William Styron and others examine race in America....
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Man Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy
by W Arens Publisher Comments Belief in the existence of cannibalism just beyond the borders of one's own culture is a time-honored, universally accepted notion. The author of this provocative book has meticulously viewed the evidence from all field on the world's classic man-eaters,...
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Fluid Signs
by Valentine E Daniel Publisher Comments "Fluid Signs" is the product of anthropological fieldwork carried out among Tamil-speaking villagers in a Hindu village in Southern India. Combining a richness of ethnographic detail with a challenging and innovative theoretical analysis, Daniel argues...
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The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship
by Jane Monni Atkinson Publisher Comments Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population...
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Uncommon Lives
by Patricia Grinager Synopsis In this vivid and deeply personal portrait of Mead's brilliance, foibles, humor and her private reactions to friends and enemies, Uncommon Lives traces the intertwined lives of two remarkable women....
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The Face: A Natural History
by Daniel Mcneill Publisher Comments This "natural history" of the face unravels the surprising mysteries of one of the most familiar sights in everyday life, exploring the face's anatomy, its singularity, its ability to communicate, and its beauty....
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The Poetics of Military Occupation
by Smadar Lavie Publisher Comments The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under...
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Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender & Kinship
by Gloria Goodw Raheja Publisher Comments In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of...
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
by Douglas L Oliver Publisher Comments This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia....
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Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics
by F. G Bailey Publisher Comments F.G. Bailey’s classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book’s scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of...
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Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-Five Years in North Indian Village
by William Henri Wiser Publisher Comments Beginning with chapters by the missionaries William and Charlotte Wiser and concluding with a new chapter by Anthropologist Susan Wadley, this accessible book details life and social change in a village in North India from 1925-1998....
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Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy
by Douglas R Holmes Publisher Comments Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and...
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Early Man
by Paul Jordan Publisher Comments How were we transformed from ape-like creatures without tool-making, language ot culture into people of the latter part of the last ice age who, give or take the further progress of technology, were just like ourselves? Covering five million years, this...
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Origin of Humankind
by Richard Leakey Synopsis This text provides an account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings. Leakey is interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible...
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Latin American Society
by Tessa Cubitt Synopsis This text examines several aspects of Latin American society: development; sustainable development; values and institutions; social relations; changing rural society; urbanization; social classes and social movements; and the state....
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