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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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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
by Richard Price Publisher Comments Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne,...
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Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost
by Jean Molesky Poz Publisher Comments Since the mid-1980s, when Guatemala returned to civilian rule and achieved relative peace and stability, the Maya have begun openly expressing their spiritual beliefs and practices. Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq'ijab...
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Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (Ethnography of Political Violence)
by Antonius Robben Publisher Comments For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency...
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
by Mark J Plotkin 
Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...
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Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
by Lynn Stephen Publisher Comments In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and...
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World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest #0004: South & Meso-American Native Spirituality
by Gary H Gossen Publisher Comments This book looks at the diverse spiritual traditions that have evolved in South and Central America and the Caribbean, since their first violent encounter with Europeans in the 16th century. Rich, varied writing from international scholars examines the...
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Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
by Candace Slater Publisher Comments Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of...
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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney Publisher Comments When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz...
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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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Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn
by Robin M Wright Publisher Comments The Baniwa Indians of the Northwest Amazon have engaged in millenarian movements since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. The defining characteristic of these movements is usually a prophecy of the end of this present world and the...
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Cooperation & Community Economy &
by Jeffrey H Cohen Publisher Comments In the villages and small towns of Oaxaca, Mexico, as in much of rural Latin America, cooperation among neighbors is essential for personal and community survival. It can take many forms, from godparenting to sponsoring fiestas, holding civic offices, or...
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The World of Sofia Velasquez: The Autobiography of a Bolivian Market Vendor
by Hans C Buechler Publisher Comments The captivating oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman struggling to survive in the city of La Paz....
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Two Evenings in Saramaka
by Richard Price Publisher Comments "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of Two Evenings in Saramaka. "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense...
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Savages
by Joe Kane Publisher Comments Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. From the Trade Paperback edition....
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Last Cannibals a South American Oral His
by Ellen B Basso Publisher Comments The Kalapalo are a Carib-speaking group of Brazilian Indians who live in the Alto (Upper) Xingu region around the headwaters of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. In this major discourse-centered study of their culture, Ellen Basso transcribes...
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Women & Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
by Christine Eber Publisher Comments "In this well-written ethnography, Christine Eber weaves together the critical issues of gender relations, religious change, domestic violence, and drinking in highland Chiapas. . . . This is a fine ethnography that is a must-read for all interested in...
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The Hold Life Has: Cocoa and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
by Catherine J Allen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-289) and index....
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Child of the Dark the Diary of Carolina
by Carolina De Jesus Publisher Comments A powerful first-hand account of life in the streets of So Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor....
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