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The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics
by Michael H. Crawford  Publisher Comments Fascinating account of the genetic, archaeological and demographic evidence for the peopling of the New World....
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Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village
by Carolyn Kremers Publisher Comments This stunning collection of essays was written by a teacher reflecting on her changed life in the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Tununak....
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One Anthropologist, Two Worlds: Three Decades of Reflexive Fieldwork in North America and Asia
by Choong Soon Kim Book News Annotation In what might be termed an "autoethnography," anthropologist Kim (Korea Digital U.) takes stock of his 35 years of conducting ethnographies in the southern states of the U.S. and in Korea among a variety of populations. He analyzes how his own...
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In the Land of the Delight Makers
by Joseph C White Book News Annotation An accessible introduction to modern archaeological survey techniques. White captures the representing a typical week on a survey and explains fairly complex methodology and terminology in a voice that readers can easily comprehend. Annotation c...
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The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories: Subtle Boundaries of Class
by Rhoda H Halperin Publisher Comments This is a can't-put-it-down book. . . . The lives of the people touch you, compel you to go on reading. For many it will open a window of understanding; for others it will give validity to a way of life. --Judith E. Marti, Associate Professor of...
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Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community
by Theresa Dele Onell Publisher Comments This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed. When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'...
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Familia: Migration & Adaptation in Baja & Alta California, 1880-1975
by Robert R Alvarez Publisher Comments Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their...
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Mama Lola a Voodoo Priestess in Brooklyn
by Karen Mccarth Brown Publisher Comments Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen...
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Public Trust & the First Americans
by Ruthann Knudson Book News Annotation The book is based on the idea that the archaeological remains of the First Americans are part of a public trust to be protected and used to the benefit of all people. The 15 essays cover public stewardship, the legal environment, public education, and...
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Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
by Sergei Kan Publisher Comments Winner of the 1990 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. The first comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska....
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Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
by Gay Becker Publisher Comments Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor--a flat tire, an unexpected phone call--to the fateful--a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather...
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The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine
by Aldona Jonaitis Publisher Comments Providing as much a historical monograph as an anthropological study, Jonaitis, director of the University of Alaska Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, details the history of the Nootka Whalers' Shrine, from its...
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Method & Theory for Investigating the Peopling of the Americas (Method & Theory for Investigating the Peopling of the Americ)
by Robson Bonnichsen Publisher Comments The first of four volumes to come out of the first World Summit Conference on the peopling of the Americas, this includes sections on methods, geoarchaeology, biological approaches, linguistic approaches, and material culture....
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The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, and Becoming in a Pueblo Society
by Alfonso Ortiz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index....
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Ancient Southwestern Community: Models & Methods for the Study of Prehistoric Social Organization
by W H Wills Publisher Comments Wide ranging contributions on the development and organization of prehistoric communities in the Southwest....
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Kin & Communities: Families in America
by Allan J Lichtman Publisher Comments This book presents essays from the fields of biology, history, sociology, and anthropology that examine key issues in family studie....
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The Structure of Twana Culture: With Comparative Notes on the Structure of Yurok Culture (Washington State University Press Reprint)
by William W Elmendorf Publisher Comments This remarkable account of Washington's Twana Indians contains the most complete body of information compiled on any Native American group in the southern coast Salish region....
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Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington
by Carobeth Laird
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Time Before Deception Truth in Communica
by Thomas W Cooper
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