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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky  Publisher Comments In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual...
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Weapons of the Weak : Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (85 Edition)
by James C. Scott Publisher Comments Everyday forms of peasant resistance....
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Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Perverse Modernities)
by Lisa Rofel Synopsis Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues...
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On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well-Being Among the Batak of the Philippines
by James F Eder Synopsis The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the...
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Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India
by Jean Luc Racine Publisher Comments Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented...
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Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
by Geoff Childs Publisher Comments In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically...
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Traditional Chinese Festivals
by Marie Luise Latsch Publisher Comments Evolution of Chinese festivals is explained as are festivals of Chinese minorities....
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Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali
by Emma Baulch Publisher Comments In 1996, Emma Baulch went to live in Bali to do research on youth culture. Her chats with young people led her to an enormously popular regular outdoor show dominated by local reggae, punk, and death metal bands. In this rich ethnography, she takes...
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Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood
by Riska Orpa Sari Synopsis Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the "headhunters of Borneo", but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to the stories...
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Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
by Robin Hemley Publisher Comments In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six “Stone Age” rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon featured in American newscasts and graced the...
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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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Family Web: A Story of India (Sargeant Beef Mystery)
by Sarah Hobson Synopsis For Several Months Sarah Hobson lived in a small South Indian village with a family of twenty-six while researching a film. She observed and recorded their way of life, gaining the close confidence of the women. She reveals the hopes, ambitions and...
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Fluid Signs
by Valentine E Daniel Synopsis "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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Beyond the Killing Fields Voices of Nine
by Usha Welaratna Publisher Comments In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned the Khmer Rouge...
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Disappearing Peoples?: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia
by Barbara Brower Publisher Comments This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the...
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Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
by Carol Laderman Synopsis Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing...
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Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)
by Scott Simon Publisher Comments Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese...
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Forbidden Red: Widowhood in Urban Nepal
by Kathey Lee Galvin Synopsis In Nepal, red symbolizes life, vibrancy, and passion--a color and existence that is often denied to women who have lost their husbands, The compelling stories of Sodha, Anju, and others vividly portray the plight of widows in this third-world country....
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Harukos World
by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have...
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For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings
by Janet Lee Scott Book News Annotation Scott (East Asian research, Harvard U.) has been conducting field research on the venerable tradition of ritual paper offerings for many years in Hong Kong. Noting that the 1997 transition to mainland control has actually strengthened appreciation of...
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