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The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak
by Donna Landry  Publisher Comments 'The Spivak Reader' offers a selection of a major critic's work, making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible in post-colonial studies, literature, women's studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and sociology. Many pieces in the Reader have...
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Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
by Tom Boellstorff Publisher Comments Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts...
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The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
by Bear Heart Publisher Comments With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Bear Heart is both a healer and a "road man" of the Native...
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Enciclopedia de los Aztecas y Mayas: Historia, Leyenda, Mito y Cultura de las Civilizaciones Precolombinas de Mexico y Centroamerica
by Charles Phillips Publisher Comments Featuring time lines, photographs, original documents, maps, and charts, these reference guide pack everything from myths and rituals to farming techniques and the afterlife about some of the world's most advanced civilizations. Con fotografías,...
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Black and White Styles in Conflict (81 Edition)
by Thomas Kochman Publisher Comments <div>"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."&#8212...
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The Secular Mind
by Robert Coles Publisher Comments "It's a pleasure to be in the presence of a man so smart and yet still capable of being rendered speechless by a student's sincere philosophical concerns. There are no conclusions here, but following Coles's considerations is worth the effort."--Ron...
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Foxfire 9 (Foxfire)
by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments "Foxfire highlights the twentieth year of the Foxfire high school program with a new volume as fascinating as its predecessors. Included are general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian potter, haint tales, quilting, home cures,...
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Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
by Mark Padilla Publisher Comments Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume...
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Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship
by Thomas R. Trautmann Publisher Comments Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape...
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Culture, Media, and Identities #02: Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
by Stuart Hall Publisher Comments This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'.</p> <p>Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social...
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Power/knowledge : Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (80 Edition)
by Michael Foucault Publisher Comments Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the...
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With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments Though many books have been written about the famous anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, none match the depth and intimacy of this classic memoir by their daughter. An illuminating portrait that throws new light on the couple's...
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Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style (Dress, Body, Culture)
by David Muggleton Publisher Comments What motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, 'anything goes' in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily recognizable, authentic subcultures imploded in a glut...
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The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics
by Jennifer Heath Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling-- of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects--has existed in countless cultures and religions from time...
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Dictionary of Symbols ((2ND)02 Edition)
by Juan Eduardo Cirlot Publisher Comments A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion,...
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A History of Private Life, Volume IV, From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
by Michelle Perrot Publisher Comments The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value,...
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The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
by Sheridan Prasso Publisher Comments Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite — and because of — centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western...
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman....
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments Sparkling with irrepressible wit, "City of Djinns" peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity...
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Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo
by Barbara Drieskens Publisher Comments The djinn is an invisible spirit with a will of its own that may lurk at the bottom of your teacup or seep through your pores to possess you. Djinns have long been an explanation for illness and misfortune or an excuse for unconventional behavior...
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