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Africa Adornedby Angela FisherISBN 0810918234 (0-8109-1823-4)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Age of God-Kings: Time Frame--3000-1500 Bcby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809464004 (0-8094-6400-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age of God-Kings: Time Frame--3000-1500 Bc'Book summary:Magazine Size Hardcover without dustjacket as issued. 176 pages. Contains: The Kingdom on the Nile, The Ziggurats of Ur, Master Builders in the Indus Valley, Lords of the Labyrinth, Yellow River Dynasties, and The Sacred Megaliths. Maps, Color Illustrations, and Photographs throughout. [via]
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American Museum of Natural History: 125 Years of Expedition and Discoveryby Lyle Rexer, Rachel Klein, American Museum of Natural HistoryISBN 0810919656 (0-8109-1965-6)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Actionby Robert M. WulffISBN 0813303141 (0-8133-0314-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action'Book summary:This text presents 25 original case studies that show working anthropologists solving problems in government and industry. The chapters are expanded versions of the 19811983 winning entries from the annual Praxis competition. In each chapter, the author describes the targeted problem or issue, his or her role as an anthropologist, the specific anthropological skills or knowledge used, and the results of the work. These in-depth studies demonstrate ways in which anthropological knowledge is applicable to real-life situations.The introduction, by coeditors Robert M. Wulff and Shirley J. Fiske, sets the agenda for understanding the dimensions of applied anthropology today. The editors examine the anthropologists role in public management and the policy process.This provocative text is a must for any introductory applied anthropology course, graduate or undergraduate, used alone as a casebook or used in conjunction with a more theoretically based applied anthropology text. It is an excellent guide for anthropologists hoping to work outside academia or the mid-career anthropologist thinking of a career switch as well as for students embarking on internships.[via]More editions of Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action:
Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economyby William RoseberryISBN 0813514460 (0-8135-1446-0)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Apes, Angels and Victorians.by William IrvineISBN 0809436752 (0-8094-3675-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0812972147 (0-8129-7214-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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Best Selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainmentsby Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William HarveyISBN 0805502440 (0-8055-0244-0)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilizationby Martin BernalISBN 0813512778 (0-8135-1277-8)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization The Archaeological and Documentary Evidenceby Martin BernalISBN 081351584X (0-8135-1584-X)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence'Book summary:[via]This volume is the second in a projected four-part series concerned with the competition between two historical models for the origins of Greek civilization. The model current today is the Aryan Model, according to which Greek culture arose as the result of the conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers or "Aryans" of the native "pre-Hellenes." The Ancient Model, which was the model maintained in Classical Greece, held that the native population of Greece had initially been civilized by Egyptian and Phoenician colonists and that more Near Eastern culture had been introduced to Greece by Greeks studying in Egypt and Southwest Asia. In these and later volumes, Martin Bernal proposes a Revised Ancient Model. According to this, the Indo-European aspects of Greek language and culture should be recognized as fundamental and the considerable non-Indo-European elements should be seen largely as Egyptian and Levantine additions to this basis.
Volume II is concerned with the archaeological and documentary evidence for contacts between Egypt and the Levant on the one hand and the Aegean on the other, during the Bronze Age from c. 3400 B.C. to c. 1100 B.C. These approaches are supplemented by information from later Greek myths, legends, religious cults, and language. The author concludes that contact between the two regions was far more extensive and influential than is generally believed. In the introduction to this volume, Bernal also responds to some reviews and criticisms of Volume I of Black Athena.
Martin Bernal is Professor of Government at Cornell University.
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985by Martin BernalISBN 081351276X (0-8135-1276-X)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the Worldby Judy GrahnISBN 0807075051 (0-8070-7505-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World'Book summary:"Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have interacted over the millenia. Grahn argues that culture has been a weaving between the genders, a sharing of wisdom derived from menstruation. Her rich interpretations of ancient menstrual rites give us a new and hopeful story of culture's beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in women's traditions. "Blood, Bread, and Roses" offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of women's menstraul power.
Foreword by Charlene Spretnak
"[Grahn's] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of women's central role in shaping civilization."
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The Body Silentby Robert F. MurphyISBN 0805001301 (0-8050-0130-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysislike all disabilitiesassaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while at the same time making the love of life burn even more fiercely. [via]More editions of The Body Silent:
The Bone Lady: Life As a Forensic Anthropologistby Mary H. ManheinISBN 0807124044 (0-8071-2404-4)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0808501747 (0-8085-0174-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable/the Legend of Charlemagne/the Age of Chivalryby Thomas Bulfinch, Edmund FullerISBN 0808501186 (0-8085-0118-6)
Hardcover, Dell Yearling
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This editon contains all three volumes.
It is a classic work of mythology. Includes an extensive glossary and detailed table of contents. The original book contains hundreds of pages full of essential information for anyone interested in the study of mythology. [via]More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable/the Legend of Charlemagne/the Age of Chivalry:
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Cave of Altamiraby Antonio Beltran, Pedro A. Saura RamosISBN 0810919893 (0-8109-1989-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cave of Altamira'Book summary:Presents a fresh look at the cave at Altamira in light of the many exciting discoveries made in the field of Paleolithic archaeology in recent years. Seven essays examine a number of theories about cave art and bring together what is known about the people who occupied and created the art at Altamira. Since the cave has been closed to visitors for many years, and visits to it in the future will be greatly restricted, distinguished photographer Saura's fascinating color and b&w images provide a unique chance to see the art in detail both in large views and at close range. [via]
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New Englandby William CrononISBN 0809001586 (0-8090-0158-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
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Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Townby Esther NewtonISBN 0807079278 (0-8070-7927-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Colonizer and the Colonizedby Albert MemmiISBN 0807003018 (0-8070-0301-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Otherby Tzvetan Todorov, Richard HowardISBN 0806131373 (0-8061-3137-3)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Conquistadors without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas an Account with Original Narrativesby Leo DeuelISBN 0805204695 (0-8052-0469-5)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Conversations With the High Priest of Coosaby Charles M. HudsonISBN 0807854212 (0-8078-5421-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Culture and Public Actionby Michael Walton, Vijayendra Rao, Mary Douglas, Arjun Appadurai, Shelton H. Davis, Lourdes Arizpe, Sabina Alkire, Monica Das Gupta, Fernando Garcia Calderon, Anita AbrahamISBN 0804747873 (0-8047-4787-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Public Action'Book summary:How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and that cultural processes are neither inherently good nor bad and never static. Rather, they are contested and evolving, and can be a source of profound social and economic transformation through their influence on aspirations and collective action; yet they can also be exploitative, exclusionary, and can lead to inequality.[via]
Culture and Public Action includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, which examine the role of culture in community-based development, ethnic conflict, famine relief, gender discrimination, and HIV-AIDS policy. The editors conclude by proposing how a "cultural lens" can better inform future research and public policy on development. Accessible, balanced, and engaging, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the relationship between culture and economics, and the design and implementation of development policy.
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Cultures of the North Pacific Coastby P. DruckerISBN 0810200872 (0-8102-0087-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Termby Bronislaw MalinowskiISBN 0804717079 (0-8047-1707-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph BoorstinISBN 0810932075 (0-8109-3207-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Economic Anthropologyby Stuart PlattnerISBN 0804717524 (0-8047-1752-4)
Softcover, Stanford University Press
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The Empire of Signsby Roland BarthesISBN 0809042223 (0-8090-4222-3)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japanby Charles J. DunnISBN 0804813841 (0-8048-1384-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debateby Tim M. BerraISBN 0804717702 (0-8047-1770-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries: The Classic Study of Leprechauns, Pixies, and Other Fairy Spiritsby W. Y. Evans-WentzISBN 0806525797 (0-8065-2579-7)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countriesby W. Y. Evans-WentzISBN 0806511605 (0-8065-1160-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries'Book summary:What are fairies, those romantic and sometimes mischievous little people-- pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all the other forms of the daoine sidhe (fairy people)? Are they real? Folklorists say they are fragments of ancient religious beliefs; occultists call them nature spirits; the peasant tradition says they are fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved or bad enough to be lost.
Dr. Evans-Wentz is best known as the author-translator of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", but his first love was this book, which presents a body of tradition and testimony about an elusive order of life that survives in the natural setting of wild and lonely places. He was not satisfied with merely formal study, but collected first-hand reports of fairies in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, and faced up to the key questions avoided by other folklorists. Dr. Evans-Wentz, whose journeys led him from the haunts of fairyland to the wilderness of Tibet, opens a path for us to the luminous reality behind the traditions of folklore. [via]
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Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture-from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDSby Emily MartinISBN 0807046272 (0-8070-4627-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Food, Sex, and Pollution: A New Guinea Religionby Anna MeigsISBN 0813513065 (0-8135-1306-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernityby Talal AsadISBN 0804747687 (0-8047-4768-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the strangeness of the non-European world and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined.
The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity.More editions of Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity:
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Frozen Manby David Getz, Peter McCartyISBN 0805046453 (0-8050-4645-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frozen Man'Book summary:When an archaeologist examines a body found frozen in the Austrian Alps, he learns something extraordinary. The well-preserved body-- and the tools and clothing found at the site-- indicates that the man died more than 5,000 years ago.[via]
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Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroonby Helen A. RegisISBN 0813338166 (0-8133-3816-6)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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The Golden Age of American Anthropologyby Margaret MeadISBN 0807601225 (0-8076-0122-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0809436876 (0-8094-3687-6)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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The History of Beads: From 30,000 B. C. to the Presentby Lois Sherr DubinISBN 0810981785 (0-8109-8178-5)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Presentby Togashi, Lois Sherr DubinISBN 0810991764 (0-8109-9176-4)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistoryby Timothy K. EarleISBN 0804728569 (0-8047-2856-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Human Enterprise: A Critical Introduction to Anthropological Theoryby James LettISBN 0813304229 (0-8133-0422-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Indians of CaliforniaISBN 0809495880 (0-8094-9588-0)
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The Indians of Californiaby Time Life BksISBN 0809495872 (0-8094-9587-2)
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Jasmin's Witchby Brian Pearce, Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0807611816 (0-8076-1181-6)
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Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Texasby Douglas FoleyISBN 0812213149 (0-8122-1314-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Living Indian Histories: The Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolinaby Gerald SiderISBN 0807855065 (0-8078-5506-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Man The Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolutionby Robert W. Sussman, Donna L. HartISBN 0813339367 (0-8133-3936-7)
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The March of Islam: Time Frame, Ad 600-800by Time-Life BooksISBN 0809464209 (0-8094-6420-9)
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Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folkloreby Stanley BrandesISBN 0812211057 (0-8122-1105-7)
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In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic evidence. His emphasis on male folklore provides a timely complement to current research on women.More editions of Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore:
Neighborhood Tokyoby Theodore C. BestorISBN 0804717974 (0-8047-1797-4)
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The Open: Man and Animalby Giorgio Agamben, Kevin AttellISBN 0804747385 (0-8047-4738-5)
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the human has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kojève, Agamben examines the ways in which the distinction between man and animal has been manufactured by the logical presuppositions of Western thought, and he investigates the profound implications that the man/animal distinction has had for disciplines as seemingly disparate as philosophy, law, anthropology, medicine, and politics.More editions of The Open: Man and Animal:
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombieby Wade DavisISBN 0807842109 (0-8078-4210-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion. [via]
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The Peyote Cultby Weston LA BarreISBN 0806122145 (0-8061-2214-5)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Peyote Religion Among the Navahoby David F. AberleISBN 0806123826 (0-8061-2382-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Red Apeby Jeffrey H. SchwartzISBN 0813340640 (0-8133-4064-0)
Hardcover, Westview Pr
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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditionsby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 0807046175 (0-8070-4617-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New Worldby Joel W. MartinISBN 0807054038 (0-8070-5403-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Sex: A Natural Historyby Joann Ellison RodgersISBN 0805072810 (0-8050-7281-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Societyby Royal B. HassrickISBN 0806121408 (0-8061-2140-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expressionby Steven FeldISBN 0812211243 (0-8122-1124-3)
Softcover, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Cultureby Walter WilliamsISBN 0807046159 (0-8070-4615-9)
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The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candombleby James William WaferISBN 0812213416 (0-8122-1341-6)
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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Pastby Sidney W. MintzISBN 0807046299 (0-8070-4629-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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They Shall Take up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cultby Weston LA BarreISBN 0805204350 (0-8052-0435-0)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Cultureby Emily JenkinsISBN 0805057013 (0-8050-5701-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythologyby C. G. Jung, Paul Radin, Karl KerenyiISBN 0805203516 (0-8052-0351-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Underwater Archaeologyby Jean-Yves Blot, Alexandra CampbellISBN 0810928590 (0-8109-2859-0)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Victims Of Progressby John H. BodleyISBN 0805309500 (0-8053-0950-0)
Hardcover, Benjamin/Cummings Pub Co
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We Have Eaten the Forest: The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnamby Georges CondominaISBN 0809096722 (0-8090-9672-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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What Is Marriage For?by E. J. GraffISBN 0807041351 (0-8070-4135-1)
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What the Bones Tell Usby Jeffrey H. SchwartzISBN 0805010564 (0-8050-1056-4)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 0805070893 (0-8050-7089-3)
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Why We Get Sick : The New Science of Darwinian Medicineby Randolph M. Nesse, George C. WilliamsISBN 0812922247 (0-8129-2224-7)
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