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Veiled Sentiments: Honor & Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lil Abu Lughod  Publisher Comments Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation...
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Religion in Context: Cults & Charisma
by I M Lewis Publisher Comments 'Religious power assumes many strikingly different forms which are often regarded both by believers and by students of religion as unique, unrelated, and even mutually exclusive. In this book, however, the author argues that to understand the nature of...
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Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
by Gay Becker Publisher Comments Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor--a flat tire, an unexpected phone call--to the fateful--a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather...
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
by George Marcus Publisher Comments Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and...
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Elements of acoustic phonetics
by Peter Ladefoged Publisher Comments This revised and expanded edition of the classic Elements of Acoustic Phonetics provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second...
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Ngatik Massacre: History & Identity on a Micronesian Atoll
by Lin Poyer Publisher Comments This book is both an ethnohistory -- using written and oraccounts to uncover the circumstances surrounding the 1837 massacre of Ngatik's aboriginal population and its aftermath -- and a reevaluation of the concept of ethnicity, examining the cultural and...
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Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960
by Elias C Mandala Book News Annotation An in-depth study of the peasant economy in southern Africa, incorporating fieldwork and archival material to weave together such aspects as the ecological conditions of production, gender and generational conflicts, and the division of labor between...
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The Cool Knife: Imagery of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
by T O Beidelman Synopsis Analyzing the ritual, imagery, and symbolism of initiations among the Kaguru of Tanzania, T.O. Beidelman argues that initiation constructs an ethnic identity that is assuming greater importance as outside pressures threaten to undermine Kaguru culture....
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The Sixties: Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade
by Gerald Howard Book News Annotation Originally published in 1982 (Washington Square Press), this edition, with a new introduction by the editor and an expanded bibliography, brings together some of the sharpest and most adventurous writing of the era, by Mailer, Sontag, McLuhan, Wolfe...
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Ribal Peoples & Development Issues
by John H Bodley Publisher Comments This collection of 39 articles is the most complete historical and contemporary overview of anthropology and development available in a single volume....
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Village, Castle, Gender & Method: Essays in Indian Social Anthropology
by M N Srinivas Publisher Comments The essays collected here have had a lasting impact on the disciplines of sociology and social anthropology. Fresh and compelling, this book reveals continuities amidst the changes taking place in India today....
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Recasting Ancient Egypt in the African Context Using Art and Language Toward a Model Curriculum
by Clinton Crawford Synopsis This is a timely work which seeks to place Egypt in its true historical context. It captures the substantial, unmistakable evidence for the indigenous African origin of the ancient Egyptians. It also examines the genius behind their invaluable...
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Rough Guide to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs
by Rough Guides Special Offer For a limited time, buy a new copy of any of the books in Rough Guide's Popular Culture section, and get The Rough Guide to World Party CD free!...
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Circumpolar Research Series, #6: Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika
by Alexander Pika Publisher Comments Based on a report submitted to the Russian parliament in 1994 on the cultural, political, and economic issues guiding Russian state policy toward Siberian indigenous peoples. A team of seven translators in North America have edited and annotated it and...
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Precarious Dependencies Gender Class Dom
by Lesley Gill Review "Where others take the 'intersection of class, race and gender' as an oft-repeated slogan, Professor Gill has produced one of the most successful and textured analyses of which I am aware. This is the work of a mature and innovative scholar with a...
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Seeds, Spades, Hearths, & Herds
by Carl Sauer Publisher Comments Originally published under the title Agricultural Origins and Dispersals: The Domestication of Animals and...
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The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (Exploring Cultures)
by Robert M Carmack Synopsis This text summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situation of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions to the present-day societies of Mexico and Central America and their...
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Being Human: an Introduction To Cultural Anthropology
by Mari Womack Publisher Comments Presents anthropology as a human-centered discipline, rather than as an abstract conceptual system. Features the most contemporary research and approaches in anthropology throughout and incorporates recent research on gender....
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Shabono
by Florinda Donner Publisher Comments Shabano -- the name for the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live -- recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologists Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tribe in the...
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Women of the Andes
by Susan Carol Bourque Publisher Comments Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences...
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