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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann  
Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to...
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest (Ancient Peoples and Places)
by Stephen Plog Publisher Comments "A graphic, lucid account of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon highlights how these ancient cultures evolved so successfully in response to their changing habitat."—Science News Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations...
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Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You Because We Love You
by Ann Fienup Riordan Publisher Comments < div> The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup& #8217; ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. < i> Wise...
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The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic (Vintage)
by Melanie Mcgrath Publisher Comments In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty...
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Number Our Days (Touchstone Books)
by Barbara G Myerhoff Publisher Comments When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these...
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Women in Ancient America
by Karen Olsen Bruhns Synopsis This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures describes gender roles and relationships in North, Central, and South America from 12,000 B.C. to the 1500s B.C. Utilizing many key archaeological works, Karen Olsen Bruhns and...
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Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature
by David Suzuki Synopsis The ecological answers and solutions we need to our current global environmental crisis are embedded in this living mosaic of profound indigenous insights into the workings of the natural world. These ancestral and contemporary natural perspectives and...
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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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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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Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska
by William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell Publisher Comments Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, this book "includes thirty-six...illustrated articles by American and Soviet...
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Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
by Keith H Basso Synopsis 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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Being and Place Among the Tlingit (Culture, Place, and Nature)
by Thomas F Thornton Book News Annotation In Tlingit (Native Alaskan) cultural life, every place, from an ocean to the tip of a rock, has a name. This makes it very easy to sort out daily life, and it also gives clues to researchers about how the Tlingit develop their identity as individuals...
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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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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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Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
by Lynn Stephen Synopsis "Where most research on things 'transnational' is anchored on one side of the border or the other, "Transborder Lives" is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which...
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The Sandal and the Cave: The Indians of Oregon
by Luther S Cressman Synopsis Luther S. Cressman offers a brief, lucid introduction to the prehistory of Oregon Indians....
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Ritual Ground
by Douglas C Comer Publisher Comments From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that...
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Working in America (American Experience)
by Catherine Reef Synopsis Eyewitness History is an interdisciplinary and multicultural series that reveals how significant events were seen and interpreted by people from all levels of society. Excerpts from primary sources -- memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches...
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West of the thirties :discoveries among the Navajo and Hopi
by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments From 1933 to 1937, the great American anthropologist Edward T. Hall lived and worked on reservations in the Southwest, a frontier where four cultures--Navajo, Hopi, Hispanic, and Anglo--clashed. Re-creating that stark and haunting landscape, Hall pieces...
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Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
by Nancy J Parezo Publisher Comments World’s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations, each exposition showcased commercial and...
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