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Navajo Multi-Household Social Units: Archaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona
by Thomas R Rocek  Book News Annotation Anthropologists have focused on household and community-level organizations of Navajo societies but have largely ignored the flexible, "middle level" cooperative units that bind small groups of households together. The author (anthropology, U. of...
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A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930
by Don D Fowler Publisher Comments The history of anthropological and archaeological endeavor in the American Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the New Deal....
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Search for the First Americans (Exploring the Ancient World)
by David Meltzer Synopsis Written by leading scholars, each book in this series provides an up-to-date assessment of a particular area of the ancient world. Abundantly illustrated in full color, the series places readers at the cutting edge of modern archaeological thinking...
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Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
by Antony Mason Publisher Comments In ancient North and South America extraordinary civilizations rose, flourished, and fell. The Mayan pyramids and the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru and Teotihuacan in Mexico remain a testament to these cultures. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas...
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The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art
by Dennis Slifer Publisher Comments Taking a wide and deep look at symbols of fertility and fecundity and meticulously documenting drawings by pre-historic cultures and historical tribes of the greater Southwest, this book draws out fertility icons as images of sacred sexuality....
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Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists & the Native American Southwest
by Nancy J Parezo Publisher Comments Analyzes the role women scholars have played understanding and interpreting Native American cultures of the Southwest....
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Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology #2: The Shaping of American Ethnography: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
by Barry Alan Joyce Publisher Comments In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and...
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The First Americans: Race, Evolution and the Origin of Native Americans
by Joseph F Powell Publisher Comments Challenges traditional ideas of who the first Americans were and what their relationship with living Native American Indians is....
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
by James P Spradley Book News Annotation Reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1970. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri
by Tanis C Thorne Synopsis A study of kinship networks among French Creoles and Central Siouan tribes and the influence of those networks on social, political and economic development along the lower Missouri River from the late prehistoric period to the removal era in the 1870s....
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Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments In these seven essays, Keith Basso defines some of the central concerns of linguistic anthropology through the close study of Western Apache, showing how intricacies of language-place names, metaphor, uses of silence-help a people define their very...
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Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
by Gelya Frank Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary ethnography comes to terms with the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born without arms or legs, over the course of the author's twenty-year friendship with her....
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The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World
by Christophe Hardaker Publisher Comments The First American is the story of the great Valsequillo discoveries, the greatest story of American early man discoveries never told. This time, science will fight back....
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Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color
by William M Ferguson Publisher Comments The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700 B.C. to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100...
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The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
by James Axtell Publisher Comments Drawing on a wide variety of source, Axtell explores the cultural adjustments that occurred when white Europeans met and attempted to 'civilize' the native Americans....
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Peyote Cult 5TH Edition
by Weston La Barre Book News Annotation **** Cited in BCL3. This is the paper edition of the expanded, updated classic study first published in 1938, revised for the fifth time in 1989. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Learning Capitalist Culture Deep in TH
by Douglas Foley Publisher Comments Learning Capitalist Culture presents an ethnographic study of a small, economically-depressed, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town. Like many communities in the Southwest, North Town has undergone cultural and political change since the late...
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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages
by Franz Boas Publisher Comments Combined here are two classics on the nature of native languages of North America: Boas' famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell's pioneering 1891 work on classification.-Scholarly Books in America Two cognate essays-the first by...
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Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration
by Louise Lamphere Publisher Comments Through ethnographic research, sociologists and anthropologists explore the interaction of America's newcomers with established residents in six cities. Their analysis highlights the importance of class and power as immigrants interact in the workplace...
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Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut
by Margaret B Blackman Publisher Comments In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska's oil-rich North...
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