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Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975
by Robert R Alvarez  Publisher Comments Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their...
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No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments The author of "Without Reservation" investigates the world of the Smithsonian's top forensic scientist, Doug Owsley, who has worked with remains from ancient times to some of the most notorious cases today. 35 photos....
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America....
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Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments "A fascinating and important book". -- The New York...
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Where Fire Speaks: A Visit with the Himba (Parallax)
by Sandra S Shields Publisher Comments On the wild river that divides Namibia from Angola, members of the Himba tribe herd cattle as they have done for hundreds of years.<P>But the world of the Himba sits in the shadow of third-world development and the inevitability of change that...
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Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village
by Conrad Phill Kottak Publisher Comments This is a revision of a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplemental text in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing...
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The Spiritual Quest
by Robert Torrance Publisher Comments Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of...
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The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
by Daniel Roche Publisher Comments In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives--their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche's highly readable style and use of...
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Buried Alive: The Startling Truth about Neanderthal Man
by Jack Cuozzo Publisher Comments In 1979, New Jersey orthodontist Jack Cuozzo was granted access to the world's most famous Neanderthal skeletons in Germany, France, and Israel. His interest in the mysterious remains began as mere curiosity about these ancient creatures. His findings...
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Between Two Islands
by Sherri Grasmuck Publisher Comments Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. "Between...
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Mountain People
by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to...
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Beyond Culture
by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways....
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Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths Among Nepal's Yolmo Budd (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; 2)
by Robert Desjarlais Publisher Comments Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #3: Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition
by David B Kronenfeld Publisher Comments Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? Somehow, in spite of this slipperiness, we usually understand...
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The World from Italy: Football, Food, and Politics
by George Negus Publisher Comments In early 1999 Australian television personality George Negus signed off from Australia to spend a 'working sabbatical'in Italy with his partner and two sons. Residing in a poky apartment in San Giovanni Valdarno, a Tuscan town south of Florence, Negus...
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The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders
by Madhusree Mukerjee Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-250) and index....
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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China....
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To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland Publisher Comments ""To Rule Jerusalem" is a study of religion and politics, Judaism and Zionism as well as Palestinian nationalism and Islam, and it brings a most remarkable perspective to a topic--conflict over Jerusalem--with which we all are, unfortunately, far more...
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The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy
by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Fascinating, erudite, well-illustrated discussion of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, Book of the Dead, much more....
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Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age
by Richard Rudgley Publisher Comments An authoritative, eye-opening look at Stone Age civilizations that explodes traditional portrayals of prehistory<P>The rise of historical civilization 5,000 years ago is often depicted as if those societies were somehow created out of nothing...
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