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Precarious Dependencies Gender Class Dom
by Lesley Gill  Review "Where others take the 'intersection of class, race and gender' as an oft-repeated slogan, Professor Gill has produced one of the most successful and textured analyses of which I am aware. This is the work of a mature and innovative scholar with a...
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Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Ceramic Transactions,)
by Johannes Wilbert About the Author Johannes Wilbertis Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, <>University of California, Los Angeles....
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Streets, Bedrooms, & Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca: Ethnographic Portraits of the Urban Poor, Transvestites, Discapacitados
by Michael Jam Higgins Publisher Comments Diversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of...
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The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (Exploring Cultures)
by Robert M Carmack Synopsis This text summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situation of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions to the present-day societies of Mexico and Central America and their...
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Between Field & Cooking Pot the Politica
by Florence E Babb Publisher Comments From reviews of the first edition: The book has a clear and readable style, moving easily between vignettes of marketwomen's lives, descriptions of the markets themselves, and surveys of the theoretical literature. Babb's long, close involvement with the...
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Decline of Community in Zinacantan: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification
by Frank Cancian Publisher Comments This ambitious work shows how national prosperity and government expansion in Mexico in the 1970's transformed a relatively closed peasant community into a more outwardly connected, socially differentiated society marked by dissension and conflict. 'This...
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Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology #6: A Divided World: Apinaye Social Structure
by Roberto Da Matta Publisher Comments The social structure of the Apinaye, a Central Brazilian Indian tribe, has puzzled anthropologists for forty years. Now, in this long-awaited book previously unavailable in English, Roberto Da Matta comprehensively describes Apinaye social life and the...
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Women of the Andes
by Susan Carol Bourque Publisher Comments Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences...
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Dangerous encounters :meanings of violence in a Brazilian city
by Daniel Touro Linger Publisher Comments This book examines violence in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation....
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To square with Genesis :causal statements and shamanic ideas in Wayäapâi
by Alan Torma Campbell Book News Annotation The Wayapi Indians of northern Brazil's Amazonian rainforest, thought to be extinct until their the overwhelming forces of an expanding frontier. Campbell (social anthropology, Edinburgh U.) presents a vivid and compelling ethnography of these...
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Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo, and the Onslaught of Civilisation
by Linda Rabben Synopsis Indigenous to the Amazon, the Kayapo and the Yanomami are internationally known through their dramatic and highly publicized encounters with "civilization". Anthropologist Linda Rabben places each group in its historical and evolutionary context to...
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Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy
by Victor Perera Publisher Comments Spanning the years of civil war in Guatemala, Unfinished Conquest portrays an embattled country facing the third cycle of a conquest that began when the conquistadors arrived in the sixteenth century. As personal narrative weaves with reportage and oral...
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Becoming West Indian :culture, self, and nation in St. Vincent
by Virginia Heye Young Publisher Comments Challenging the common view that integrative social and cultural factors have not existed in the English-speaking Caribbean societies, Young argues that political identification on St. Vincent is part of the cultural concept of personhood....
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Co-Wives & Calabashes
by Sally Price Publisher Comments Explores the world of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and the status of women as reflected in social structure and art...
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Women of the Forest
by Yolanda Murphy Publisher Comments For the second edition of this widely read and now-classic ethnography, the authors have written a new chapter that describes their fieldwork during their year among Brazil's Mundurucú Indians, making the book more valuable than ever to students...
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazonian Rain Forest
by Mark J Plotkin 
Powells.com Staff Pick Mark Plotkin is both Lewis and Clark to the Amazon rain forest, and Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice is his extremely entertaining and informative journal. This classic scientific adventure story shows why the hidden pharmaceutical riches of the rain...
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Voices From the Amazon
by Binka Le Breton Publisher Comments *Stories told by indigenous peoples of the Amazon, including Indians, rubber tappers, miners, loggers, and ranchers *Suggests social and political reforms that could sustain the lives of rain forest dwellers and the planet *Written by an activist who set...
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Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
by Thomas Gregor Publisher Comments "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals—especially those practiced by the men in their secret...
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Making the world safe for existence :celebration of the saints among the Sierra Nahuat of Chignautla, Mexico
by Doren L Slade Publisher Comments Looks at the place of saints in the life of a Mexican Indian community...
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Nahuat Myth and Social Structure (Texas Pan American Series)
by James Taggart Synopsis First published in 1983, Nahuat Myth and Social Structure brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are...
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