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Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition
by Yvonne Chireau  Publisher Comments Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure--the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements--from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a...
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Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory
by Kenneth M Ames Publisher Comments Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art -- masks, totem poles, woven blankets -- produced by...
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Edward P. Dozier: The Paradox of the American Indian Anthropologist
by Marilyn Norcini Publisher Comments Edward P. Dozier was the first American Indian to establish a career as an academic anthropologist. In doing so, he faced a double paradox—academic and cultural. The notion of objectivity that governed academic anthropology at the time dictated...
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Santeria: African Spirits in America
by Joseph M Murphy Publisher Comments "Informative and a joy to read. . . . It strikes a balance between participation and observation in an explanation of Santeria that will please believer and scholar alike." --Shaman's...
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Oglala women :myth, ritual, and reality
by Maria Powers Publisher Comments Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala...
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This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Body (Living Planet Book)
by Ptolemy Tompkins Publisher Comments Ptolemy Tompkins’s spellbinding plunge into the history and meaning of Mesoamerican civilizations—first published a decade ago—is more compelling now than ever. Combining scholarly knowledge with visionary perception and sensitivity, he...
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Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners
by Tom Koppel Publisher Comments In a captivating blend of extreme science and historical sleuthing, an award-winning journalist tells the intriguing story of the quest to discover who first settled in the New World--and how and when they did it. 8-pages of photos....
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Religion in America (American Experience)
by Timothy L Hall Publisher Comments Religion in America traces the development of religion in the U.S. throughout American history--from colonial days to the present....
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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
by David Chidester Publisher Comments "In this dazzling book, Chidester moves effortlessly and insightfully between the serious and solemn and the playful and humorous. The case studies are so very fresh and interesting, and he brings a wonderfully nuanced eye to the material."--Edward T...
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The World S Rim: Great Mysteries of the North American Indians
by Hartley B Alexander Publisher Comments Classic ethnological study of the idea that Native Americans and other cultures in distant parts of the world have created identical ritual patterns to express their separate discoveries of a single insight. "For anyone who wishes a good, readable...
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Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp
by Lane R Hirabayashi Publisher Comments The Politics of Fieldwork describes Tsuchiyama's experiences as a researcher at Poston, Arizona -- a.k.a. the Colorado River Relocation Center. The book relates the daily life, fieldwork methodology, and politics of the residents and researchers at the...
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Ice Age Peoples of North America
by Robson Bonnichsen Publisher Comments This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new discoveries from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. Even though the peopling of the Americas has been the focus of scientific...
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A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments "The Shaping of American Anthropology is a book which is outstanding in many respects. Stocking is probably the leading authority on Franz Boas; he understands Boas's contributions to American anthropology, as well as anthropology in general, very well. ....
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Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum
by D B Madsen Publisher Comments WHERE DID THE FIRST AMERICANS come from and when did they get here? That basic question of American archaeology, long thought to have been solved, is reemerging as a critical issue as the number of well-excavated sites dating to pre-Clovis times...
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People of the Blue Water: A Record of Life Among the Walapai and Havasupai Indians
by Flora Gregg Iliff Synopsis "Flora Gregg left her Oklahoma home in 1900, answering a call for teachers on an Indian reservation in northern Arizona. . . . Her book . . . is a simple but strangely moving document. She is good at description and a keen observer of people and customs."...
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor African-American Cul
by Patricia A Turner Publisher Comments Ku Klux Klan-owned companies. Sodas that cause sterility. A military conspiracy to infect Africans with AIDS. These rumors reverberate through Black America. Now, Patricia Turner presents a groundbreaking, comprehensive look at how rumors translate white...
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The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People
by Edith Turner Publisher Comments A journal of a year in far northern Alaska, The Hands Feel It captures Turner's experiences with healing, spirit manifestation, and premonition among the I$upiat. She illuminates I$upiat spiritual beliefs and rituals as expressed in daily life....
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Tsimshian Texts
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments Tsimshian Indian Myths From The Nass River Region Of British Columbia. Native Texts With English Translations....
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Clovis Blade Technology: A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas (Title Page Only)
by Michael B Collins Publisher Comments Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as Clovis occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were probably nomadic hunters and gatherers whose remaining traces...
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Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest
by Catherine Lavender Publisher Comments In the first decades of the twentieth century, the work produced by women anthropologists dominated scholarship about the Native American Southwest. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing American culture, early anthropologists sought examples of...
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