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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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by Charles C. Mann
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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The Hold Life Has: Cocoa and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
by Catherine J Allen
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by Jared Diamond
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
by Edw Evans Pritchard
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Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
by Holly Wardlow
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Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork
by Allaine Cerwonka
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The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book)
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Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
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The Forest People (Touchstone Books)
by Colin Turnbull
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