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Mexican Memoir: A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca Mexican Memoir: A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca
by Howard Campbell

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Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI. An anthropologist who married a Zapotec woman, the author chronicles his fieldwork in... (read more)

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Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology
by Paul Kutsche

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Contains 25 college-level field assignments relating to five themes: mapping a city block, private language, body language, ritual, and students' illustrative ethnographies. Each section contains Kutsche's (professor emeritus, anthropology, Colorado... (read more)

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Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists & the Native American Southwest Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists & the Native American Southwest
by Nancy J Parezo

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Analyzes the role women scholars have played understanding and interpreting Native American cultures of the Southwest.... (read more)

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Hahalis and the Labour of Love (Explorations in Anthropology) Hahalis and the Labour of Love (Explorations in Anthropology)
by Max Rimoldi

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This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first... (read more)

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The Combing of History The Combing of History
by David William Cohen

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How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of... (read more)

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Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
by Betty Mindlin

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284).... (read more)

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Head Hunters of the Amazon: My Adventures in the Jungle, 1894-1901 Head Hunters of the Amazon: My Adventures in the Jungle, 1894-1901
by F W Up De Graff

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One of the all-time greatest adventure books. Up de Graff tells of his unbelievable adventures in the Amazon during the late 1800s.... (read more)

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Indigenous Religions: A Companion Indigenous Religions: A Companion
by Graham Harvey

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Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions. This Companion shows how much they can contribute to a richer understanding of human identity, action, and relationships.An international team of contributors discuss representative... (read more)

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Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu
by James A Pritchett

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Breaking away from traditional ethnographic accounts often limited by theoretical frameworks and rhetorical styles, "Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu" offers an insider's view into the day-to-day lives... (read more)

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Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships
by Richard W Bulliet

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Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present.... (read more)

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Humankind: A Brief History Humankind: A Brief History
by Felipe Fernandez-armesto

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The discovery that the DNA of chimpanzees and humans is incredibly similar, sharing 98% of the same code, suggests that there is very little different--or special--about the human animal. Likewise, advances in artificial intelligence mean that humans no... (read more)

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Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut
by Margaret B Blackman

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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... (read more)

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Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace
by Douglas P Fry

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Humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. Or are we? Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. A profoundly heartening view of human nature, "Beyond War" offers a hopeful perspective on... (read more)

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Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism
by Frank Waters

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"A fascinating and important book". -- The New York... (read more)

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Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village
by Conrad Phill Kottak

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This is a revision of a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplemental text in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing... (read more)

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Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990 Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
by Thomas Buckley

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.... (read more)

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Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths Among Nepal's Yolmo Budd (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; 2) Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths Among Nepal's Yolmo Budd (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; 2)
by Robert Desjarlais

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Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late... (read more)

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Adventures in the Bone Trade Adventures in the Bone Trade
by Jon Kalb

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Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. Many of the fossils found in this region are the missing links leading to... (read more)

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Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict
by William Mcd Wallace

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A revolutionary, cross-disciplinary explanation of modern conflict and human... (read more)

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Translated Woman Crossing the Border W Translated Woman Crossing the Border W
by Ruth Behar

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The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new preface Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernandez, a Mexican street peddler. A brave... (read more)

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