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Americans and Chinese: Passages to Differencesby Francis L. K. HsuISBN 082480757X (0-8248-0757-X)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Annual Review of Anthropology: 2001by E. Valentine Daniel, Bambi B. Schieffelin, William H. DurhamISBN 0824319303 (0-8243-1930-3)
Hardcover, Annual Reviews
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The Anthropology of Christianityby Fenella CannellISBN 0822336464 (0-8223-3646-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Apes, Angels and Victorians.by William IrvineISBN 0819132829 (0-8191-3282-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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Apes, Men, and Languageby Eugene LindenISBN 0841503435 (0-8415-0343-5)
Hardcover, Saturday Review Press
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The Atlas of World Archaeologyby Paul G. BahnISBN 0816040516 (0-8160-4051-6)
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Beyond the Horizon: Adventures in Faraway LandsISBN 0870448315 (0-87044-831-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization The Linguistic Evidenceby Martin BernalISBN 0813536553 (0-8135-3655-3)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debateby John W. CooperISBN 0851114741 (0-85111-474-1)
Hardcover, Eerdmans
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The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europeby Pieter SpierenburgISBN 0813516765 (0-8135-1676-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africaby Hildi HendricksonISBN 0822317915 (0-8223-1791-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning.
By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social developmentheterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representationhave existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation.Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss
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Crime and Custom in Savage Societyby Bronisalw MalinsowskiISBN 0822602105 (0-8226-0210-5)
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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuadorby Suzana SawyerISBN 0822332728 (0-8223-3272-8)
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The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Lawby Rosemary J. CoombeISBN 082232119X (0-8223-2119-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Although such artifacts are ubiquitous in contemporary culture, little attention has been paid to the impact of intellectual property law in everyday life or to how ownership of specific intellectual properties is determined and exercised. Drawing on a wide range of cases, disputes, and local struggles, Coombe examines these issues and dismantles the legal assumption that the meaning and value of a text or image is produced exclusively by an individual author or that authorship has a single point of origin. In the process, she examines controversies that include the service of turbanned Sikhs in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the use of the term Olympic in reference to the proposed gay Olympic Games. Other chapters discuss the appropriation of such celebrity images as the Marx brothers, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, James Dean, and Luke Skywalker; the conflict over team names such as the Washington Redskins; and the opposition of indigenous peoples to stereotypical Native American insignia proffered by the entertainment industry. Ultimately, she makes a case for redefining the political in commodified cultural environments.
Significant for its insights into the political significance of current intellectual property law, this book also provides new perspectives on debates in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and political theory. It will therefore interest both a wide scholarly and a general audience.More editions of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law:
Daughters of the Dreamingby Diane BellISBN 0816623988 (0-8166-2398-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologistby Carmel SchrireISBN 0813915589 (0-8139-1558-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologistby David Chidester, Carmel SchrireISBN 0813916925 (0-8139-1692-5)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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The Doctrine of Humanityby Charles SherlockISBN 083081535X (0-8308-1535-X)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doctrine of Humanity'Book summary:At the end of the twentieth century the forces of race, gender, ethnicity, culture, social status, life-style and sexual preference threaten to disassemble any notion of universal "human nature" or "human condition." In light of this historical moment, the Christian doctrine of human nature is ripe for rethinking and reformulation. Charles Sherlock sees this theological task as demanding a "double focus." To reflect on the subject of human nature, he says, is like "moving around the different areas of an ellipse with two focal points": humans as made in the image of God and the particular realities of human existence. Both must be brought into sharper, more detailed focus in our quest to understand human nature. The result of Sherlock's "double focus" is The Doctrine of Humanity. Sherlock notably engages the communal dimension of humanity in its social, creational and cultural aspects before examining the human person as individual, as male and female, and as whole being. He offers a timely and engaging look at what it means to be human on the continuum between our creation in the divine image and our recreation in the image of Christ. [via]
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The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rightsby Leigh BinfordISBN 0816516626 (0-8165-1662-6)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Culturesby Anthony F. AveniISBN 0870816721 (0-87081-672-1)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Encounter With an Angry God: Recollections of My Life With John Peabody Harringtonby Carobeth LairdISBN 0826314147 (0-8263-1414-7)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Encyclopedia of Native American Tribesby Carl Waldman, Molly BraunISBN 0816062730 (0-8160-6273-0)
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 0871137895 (0-87113-789-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Flannery admirably balances his twin roles as scientist and storyteller. As a thoughtful teacher, he employs memorable and effective examples to illustrate broader topics, but he's also willing to commit to theoretical explanations (with fair warning) when necessary to thread together the narrative. But Flannery's greatest strength might simply be the empathy he inspires as a fellow human being trying to sort out an intricate, often richly beautiful puzzle. It's hard not to identify with his curiosity and enthusiasm, whether he's recalling memories of late nights spent as a child reading the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Mammals (and the uintathere nightmares that followed) or just marveling over the vast American West from his window seat on a plane.
The Eternal Frontier certainly leaves you with a solid outline of the how, why, and when of North America's enigmatic ecology, and what the implications of a dwindling frontier have for our future. But don't be surprised when what you remember best are Flannery's countless details--worthy of repeating at any self-respecting pub--from marsupial sperm that swim in pairs to the reason that Native American cultures might owe their very existence to squirrels' taste in nuts. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Everlasting Manby Gilbert Keith ChestertonISBN 0837166365 (0-8371-6636-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Everlasting Man'Book summary:What--if anything--is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history. Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary (and antagonist) H.G. Wells, Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith. Writing in a time when social Darwinism was rampant, Chesterton instead argued that the idea that society has been steadily progressing from a state of primitivism and barbarity towards "civilization" is simply and flatly inaccurate. "Barbarism and civilization were not successive stages in the progress of the world", he affirms, with arguments drawn from the histories of both Egypt and Babylon.
As always with Chesterton, there is in this analysis something (as he said of Blake) "very plain and emphatic". He sees in Christianity a rare blending of philosophy and mythology, or reason and story, which satisfies both the mind and the heart. On both levels it rings true. As he puts it, "in answer to the historical query of why it was accepted, and is accepted, I answer for millions of others in my reply; because it fits the lock; because it is like life". Here, as so often in Chesterton, we sense a lived, awakened faith. All that he himself writes derives from a keen intellect guided by the heart's own knowledge. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Evolutionby Mark RidleyISBN 0865424950 (0-86542-495-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationalityby Aihwa OngISBN 0822322692 (0-8223-2269-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality'Book summary:Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, Flexible Citizenship explores such questions with a focus on the links between the cultural logics of human action and on economic and political processes within the Asia-Pacific, including the impact of these forces on women and family life.[via]
Explaining how intensified travel, communications, and mass media have created a transnational Chinese public, Aihwa Ong argues that previous studies have mistakenly viewed transnationality as necessarily detrimental to the nation-state and have ignored individual agency in the large-scale flow of people, images, and cultural forces across borders. She describes how political upheavals and global markets have induced Asian investors, in particular, to blend strategies of migration and of capital accumulation and how these transnational subjects have come to symbolize both the fluidity of capital and the tension between national and personal identities. Refuting claims about the end of the nation-state and about the clash of civilizations, Ong presents a clear account of the cultural logics of globalization and an incisive contribution to the anthropology of Asia-Pacific modernity and its links to global social change.
This pioneering investigation of transnational cultural forms will appeal to those in anthropology, globalization studies, postcolonial studies, history, Asian studies, Marxist theory, and cultural studies.More editions of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality:
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, a Dreamby H. G. BissingerISBN 0833593269 (0-8335-9326-9)
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The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918by Rudi BleysISBN 0814712657 (0-8147-1265-7)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Drawing on travel reports and early ethnographic accounts, The Geography of Perversion and Desire presents the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation of cultural otherness, as found in European thought from the Enlightenment to modern times, is closely interrelated with modern constructions of homosexual identity.
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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter: Coyote Builds North Americaby Barry LopezISBN 0836207262 (0-8362-0726-2)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Heaven, Heroes, and Happiness: The Indo-European Roots of Western Ideologyby Shan M. M. WinnISBN 0819198609 (0-8191-9860-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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In the Metroby Marc Auge, Tom ConleyISBN 0816634378 (0-8166-3437-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Jaguar and the Anteaterby Arcand, Wayne GradyISBN 0860914461 (0-86091-446-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Kachina and the White Man: The Influences of White Culture on the Hopi Kachina Cultby Frederick J. DockstaderISBN 0826307906 (0-8263-0790-6)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Storiesby Nayra AtiyaISBN 0815601816 (0-8156-0181-6)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Frances Gies, Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0815203454 (0-8152-0345-4)
Hardcover, Apollo Editions
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Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folkloreby Alan DundesISBN 0814320384 (0-8143-2038-4)
Softcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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Lost Empires: Living Tribesby Ross S. BennettISBN 0870444344 (0-87044-434-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Majesty of Man: The Dignity of Being Humanby Ronald B. AllenISBN 082542139X (0-8254-2139-X)
Softcover, Kregel Pubns
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Man Makes Himselfby V. Gordon Childe, Mark EdmondsISBN 0851246494 (0-85124-649-4)
Softcover, Spokesman Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Makes Himself'Book summary:This book is the classic introduction to the history of early man. Starting more than 340,000 years ago, when man's ability to make a fire and fashion stone tools helped him to survive among the wild beasts, it traces his development as a food producer, the emergence of cities and states, the rise of foreign trade, and the urban revolution. Contents include: Chronological Table for Egypt and Mesopotamia, Human and Natural History, Organic Evolution and Cultural Progress, Time Scales, Food Gatherers, the Neolithic Revolution, Prelude to the Second Revolution, the Urban Revolution, the Revolution in Human Knowledge, the Acceleration and Retardation of Progress. [via]
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Mayaby Charles GallenkampISBN 0833516116 (0-8335-1611-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Mighty Aztecsby Gene S. StuartISBN 0870443674 (0-87044-367-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Adventures in Zuniby Frank Hamilton CushingISBN 0865410453 (0-86541-045-3)
Softcover, Filter Pr Llc
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Mysteries of the Ancient Worldby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870442546 (0-87044-254-6)
Hardcover, The Society
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Mysterious Mayaby George E. StuartISBN 0870442333 (0-87044-233-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religionsby H. R. Ellis DavidsonISBN 0815624417 (0-8156-2441-7)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of N Orth Americaby Richard CollinsISBN 0831763930 (0-8317-6393-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North Americaby William C. Sturtevant, Colin F. TaylorISBN 0861015231 (0-86101-523-1)
Hardcover, Salamander Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America'Book summary:The Native American looks back at the way of life of the first Americans. Divided into nine cultural areas, it draw particular attention - through the medium of 38 superb artifact spreads - to the ways in which some of the early inhabitants adapted to living in widely varying environments, from the Arctic to the Southwest. Over 1000 tribal artifacts have been selected and described by William C. Sturtevant of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawn from the superb collections of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Smithsonian itself, many of them have not been seen since they were collected by anthropologists and ethnologists near the turn of the last century; none of them has been presented before in color tableaux that give such a rich insight into the material wealth and culture of so many different tribes and groups. With the aid of over 250 archive photographs, maps, color plates and artworks, The Native Americans looks at various cultural aspects, beliefs, key individuals and historical events in the lives of many tribes and groups of Indians, [via]
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Navajo Native Dyes: Their Preparation and Useby Stella Young, Nonabah G. BryanISBN 0865410712 (0-86541-071-2)
Softcover, Filter Pr Llc
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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburgby Richard Handler, Eric GableISBN 0822319748 (0-8223-1974-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundlandby Gerald L. PociusISBN 0820313300 (0-8203-1330-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern Indiaby Akhil GuptaISBN 0822322137 (0-8223-2213-7)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Primitive Governmentby Lucy MairISBN 0844625132 (0-8446-2513-2)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Principles of Human Evolution: A Core Textbookby Roger Lewin, Roger Human Evolution LewinISBN 0865425426 (0-86542-542-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Science Inc
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Que Vivan Los Tamales: Food and the Making of Mexican Identityby Jeffrey M. PilcherISBN 0826318738 (0-8263-1873-8)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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The metate and mano, used by women for grinding corn and chiles since pre-Columbian times, remained essential to preparing such Mexican foods as tamales, tortillas, and mole poblano well into the twentieth century. Part of the ongoing effort by intellectuals and political leaders to Europeanize Mexico was an attempt to replace corn with wheat. But native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology and what it meant to be authentically Mexican after 1940, when a growing urban middle class appropriated the popular native foods of the lower class and proclaimed them as national cuisine. [via]
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Rereading Cultural Anthropologyby George E. MarcusISBN 0822312972 (0-8223-1297-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Shamanism: An Expanded View of Realityby Shirley NicholsonISBN 0835606171 (0-8356-0617-1)
Softcover, Quest Books
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Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Cultureby Tim MegarryISBN 0814755380 (0-8147-5538-0)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Spiders & Spinsters: Women and Mythologyby Marta WeigleISBN 0826306446 (0-8263-0644-6)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magicby Daniel Lawrence O'KeefeISBN 0826400590 (0-8264-0059-0)
Hardcover, Continuum
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The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Gameby Paul ShepardISBN 0820319813 (0-8203-1981-3)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologistsby David H. PriceISBN 0822333384 (0-8223-3338-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropologyby John Adair, Sol WorthISBN 0826317715 (0-8263-1771-5)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythologyby Paul RadinISBN 0837121124 (0-8371-2112-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Victims Of Progressby John H. BodleyISBN 0846505401 (0-8465-0540-1)
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Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroadsby Gil BailieISBN 0824516451 (0-8245-1645-1)
Softcover, Crossroad Pub Co
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Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and Peopleby Dale Peterson, Jane GoodallISBN 0820322067 (0-8203-2206-7)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaicaby Norman C. StolzoffISBN 0822325144 (0-8223-2514-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Norman C. Stolzoff brings a fans enthusiasm to his broad perspective on dancehall, providing extensive interviews, original photographs, and anthropological analysis from eighteen months of fieldwork in Kingston. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between different factions struggling to gain control of the island nations political culture. Dancehall culture thus remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is shaped. As his argument unfolds, Stolzoff traces the history of Jamaican music from its roots in the late eighteenth century to 1945, from the addition of sound systems and technology during the mid-forties to early sixties, and finally through the post-independence years from the early sixties to the present.
Wake the Town and Tell the People offers a general introduction for those interested in dancehall music and culture. For the fan or musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.More editions of Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica:
What the Bones Tell Usby Jeffrey H. SchwartzISBN 0816518556 (0-8165-1855-6)
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Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologistby Stuart A. SchlegelISBN 0820324914 (0-8203-2491-4)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Huntsby H. SidkyISBN 0820433543 (0-8204-3354-3)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreamsby Karen KelskyISBN 082232816X (0-8223-2816-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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In exploring the promises, limitations, and contradictions of these occidental longings, Women on the Verge exposes the racial and erotic politics of transnational mobility. Kelsky shows how female cosmopolitanism recontextualizes the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the modern West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West. While transnational movement is not available to all Japanese women, Kelsky shows that the desire for the foreign permeates many Japanese womens lives. She also reveals how this feminine allegiance to the Westand particularly to white mencan impose its own unanticipated hegemonies of race, sexuality, and capital.
Combining ethnography and literary analysis, and bridging anthropology and cultural studies, Women on the Verge will also appeal to students and scholars of Japan studies, feminism, and global culture.More editions of Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams:
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The World of the American IndianISBN 0870449729 (0-87044-972-9)
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The World of the American Indianby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870441515 (0-87044-151-5)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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