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Death and the Idea of Mexico
by Claudio Lomnitz  Publisher Comments Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican...
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Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology #0093: In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia
by Philippe Descola Publisher Comments The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the...
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Serpent and the Rainbow (85 Edition)
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of...
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of...
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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
by Norman Whitten Publisher Comments The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and...
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
by Pierre Clastres Publisher Comments Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an unsentimental yet sympathetic depiction of the year anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent with a so-called 'savage' tribe of Indians in Paraguay in 1963. It describes the everyday life and habits, ritual and...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #12: Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It
by Rob Borofsky Publisher Comments Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology--questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy--one of anthropology'...
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Crude Chronicles : Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (04 Edition)
by Suzana Sawyer Synopsis Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the...
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Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest
by Jacques Lizot Publisher Comments The Yanomami Indians of the Venezuelan Forest are to some extent known already to the outside world through the books that have been written, and the films that have been made about them. In this book, Jacques Lizot allows the Indians to speak for...
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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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Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
by Richard Price Synopsis "Price breaks new ground in the study of slave resistance in his 'hemispheric' view of Maroon societies." -- Journal of Ethnic Studies...
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival
by Stacy B. (edt) 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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Contemporary Maya Spirituality : Ancient Ways Are Not Lost (06 Edition)
by Jean Molesky 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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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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Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country
by Walter Randol Adams Synopsis Creating more enlightened health care for traditional cultures...
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Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
by James M Taggart Publisher Comments On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdan, Mexico, with her infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla, was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in...
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Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes
by Krista E Van Vleet Publisher Comments In the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such as sharing food, work, and stories create a sense of relatedness among people. Through these day-to-day interactions--as well as more unusual events...
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Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico
by Elizabeth Emm Ferry Synopsis < P> Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of < I> patrimonio<...
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