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Turtle Island Alphabet: A Lexicon of Native American Symbols & Culture
by Gerald Hausman  Review "[Turtle Island Alphabet] is a beautiful book...the pinnacle of Hausman's lifelong work of illuminating the wisdom, teachings, and lore of native peoples." New Mexico...
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Discoveries: Search for Ancient Egypt (Discoveries)
by Jean Vercoutter Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins
by Lee R Berger Publisher Comments Paleoanthropology: the very word sounds daunting, a dry-as-dust, arcane academic discipline -- but nothing could be further from the truth, as this fascinating and provocative book makes clear. In fact, the search for human origins is a passionate, vital...
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Oglala women :myth, ritual, and reality
by Maria Powers Publisher Comments Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala...
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Ancient Egypt: Its Culture and History
by J E Manchip White Publisher Comments Fascinating account of Egypt, predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing. Full reference to recent...
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments In a profoundly optimistic book, anthropologist Bateson takes readers on a fascinating journey to exotic settings--from a Persian garden to an Israeli youth movement, from a Philippine village to a bus full of Tibetan monks--to show the wealth of meaning...
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Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology
by Kathy Schick Publisher Comments In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution. <P>Drawing on two...
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The Dancing Healers: A Doctor's Journey of Healing with Native Americans
by Carl A Hammerschlag Publisher Comments This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about their methods.While working...
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
by Elisabeth Bumiller Publisher Comments "The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again."<BR>THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD<BR>In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller...
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Race
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments America's foremost oral historian tackles the most difficult and complicated issue in America today -- race relations -- by interviewing nearly a hundred blacks and whites. The result is a riveting and deeply moving -- and frequently provocative -- look...
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Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences
by Felicitas D Goodman Book News Annotation Goodman, founder of the Cuyamungue Institute, describes her discovery of certain postures that induce ecstatic experiences, the personal and mythical visions of subjects, and how to do it at home. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews...
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Dominion
by Niles Eldredge Publisher Comments "A magnificently clear expose of our current dilemma, and a forthright recommendation for change."--Kurt Benirschke, University of California, San...
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
by Marvin Harris Publisher Comments Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny....
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The Sibling Society
by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society", in which adults have regressed...
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Myth and Meaning : Cracking the Code of Culture (95 Edition)
by Claude Levi-strauss Publisher Comments 'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind.'--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical...
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African Silences
by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous...
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Chariots of the Gods (80 Edition)
by Erich Von Daniken Publisher Comments This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began -- von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest...
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Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation)
by Leila Abouzeid Publisher Comments In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both...
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What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee
by Jonathan Marks Publisher Comments A well-known molecular anthropologist uses the human-versus-ape controversy as a jumping-off point for a radical reassessment of a range of provocative issues, from the role of science in society to racism, animal rights, and cloning. 5 photos & 2...
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Voodoo Search for the Spirit
by Laennec Hurbon Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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