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Globalization in Rural Mexico: Three Decades of Change
by Frances Rothstein  Publisher Comments Employing rich ethnography and broad analysis, Rothstein focuses on how everyday life has been transformed by these processes, but shows also how important continuities with the past persist. She strikes a delicate balance between firmly grounded...
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Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals
by Andrea M Heckman Publisher Comments Andrea Heckman beautifully illustrates how the Quechua people of southern Peru tell their cultural stories in their textiles and use their weaving in centuries-old ceremonies, sustaining a connection to the past....
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The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera
by David E Stuart Publisher Comments This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s....
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Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Cindy L Hull Publisher Comments The focus of this case study is the changing social and economic structure of the henequen zone in northwest Yucatan, Mexico, with special attention paid to women's economic participation. The henequen zone is unique in that it has been dominated by...
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Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes (Visible Evidence)
by Jeff D Himpele Publisher Comments Set against the background of Bolivia’s prominent urban festival parades and the country’s recent appearance on the front lines of antiglobalization movements, Circuits of Culture is the first social analysis of Bolivian film and television,...
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Broccoli and Desire : Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala (06 Edition)
by Edward F. Fischer Publisher Comments “Broccoli and Desire tells the story of globalization from the ground up, focusing on the lives of ordinary people—the producers and consumers of a vegetable that many often take for granted. The authors, perceptive, boots-on-the-ground...
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Head Hunters of the Amazon My Adventure
by F W Up De Graff Publisher Comments One of the all-time greatest adventure books. Up de Graff tells of his unbelievable adventures in the Amazon during the late 1800s....
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Cholas and Pishtacos : Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes (01 Edition)
by Mary Weismantel Publisher Comments Winner of the 2003 Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society. <BR>The chola and the pishtaco are provocative characters from South American popular culture--the former a sensual mixed-race woman and the latter a horrifying white...
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Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
by Elizabeth Hil Boone Publisher Comments In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest...
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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica
by Gina A Ulysse Publisher Comments The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more...
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Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (Past in the Present)
by Peter Burke Publisher Comments Peter Burke is the leading cultural historian of our generation. -- Jay Winter, Yale University The world's greatest thinking happens in many climes, contexts, and languages. To alert the English-speaking world to this fact, there are no better scholars...
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The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
by Jeffrey H Cohen Publisher Comments Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some who leave their rural communities go only as far as the state capital, while others migrate to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. Most...
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Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
by Richard Price Publisher Comments "Price breaks new ground in the study of slave resistance in his 'hemispheric' view of Maroon societies." -- Journal of Ethnic...
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Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
by Allen Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index....
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Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
by Anthony F Aveni Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition: . . . a clear, well-written introduction to archaeoastronomy that should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the subject.--Archaeology . . . a splendid book, interesting both as science and as history.--Sky and...
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American Encounters : Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture (98 Edition)
by Jose Eduardo Limon Publisher Comments The idea of crossing the border between the U.S. and "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. In American Encounters, award-winning anthropologist LimUn offers an alternative history of attraction and des ire between...
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
by Stacy B. Schaefer Publisher Comments The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion....
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Amazon Stranger: A Saga of a Rainforest Warrior
by Mike Tidwell Publisher Comments One man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Cofan people against Big Oil....
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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 Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera
by David E Stuart Publisher Comments This memoir of a young gringo's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is an eye-opening account of the area's working-class life. After months of anthropological field work in late 1960s Ecuador, David...
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