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The Aeneidby Virgil, Stanley Lombardo, W.R. JohnsonISBN 0872207315 (0-87220-731-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultureby Claudia ZaslavskyISBN 0871501600 (0-87150-160-0)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Archaeological Survey and Settlement Pattern Models in Central Illinoisby Donna C. RoperISBN 0873382307 (0-87338-230-7)
Hardcover, Kent State University Press
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Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Ageby Anthony AveniISBN 0870816713 (0-87081-671-3)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Body Language of Sex, Power, and Aggressionby Julius FastISBN 0871312220 (0-87131-222-0)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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Californiaby Robert HeizerISBN 0874741882 (0-87474-188-2)
Hardcover, Smithsonian Institution Press
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Celtic Mythologyby Proinsias Mac CanaISBN 0872262421 (0-87226-242-1)
Softcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropologyby Joana McIntyre VarawaISBN 0871133199 (0-87113-319-9)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Chippewa Customsby Frances DensmoreISBN 0873511425 (0-87351-142-5)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands Eastby David Hurst ThomasISBN 0874743907 (0-87474-390-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0873481402 (0-87348-140-2)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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Continuity and Change in Modern Iranby Nikki R. Keddie, Michael E. BonineISBN 0873954661 (0-87395-466-1)
Hardcover, State University of New York Press
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Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptionsby Ian Graham, Peter Mathews, Eric Von Euw, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyISBN 0873657799 (0-87365-779-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Naranjo, Volume 2, Part 1by Ian GrahamISBN 0873657802 (0-87365-780-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Creativity of Power: Essays on Cosmology and Action in African Societiesby Ivan Karp, W. ArensISBN 0874746175 (0-87474-617-5)
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Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaskaby William W. Fitzhugh, Aron CrowellISBN 0874744350 (0-87474-435-0)
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Dakota Life in the Upper Midwestby Samuel W. Pond, Gary Clayton AndersonISBN 0873514556 (0-87351-455-6)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota As They Were in 1834by Samuel W. PondISBN 087351193X (0-87351-193-X)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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Darwin on Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selectionby Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David KohnISBN 0872202852 (0-87220-285-2)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Stephen D. GrantISBN 0872204944 (0-87220-494-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Dictionary of Symbolsby Carl G. LiungmanISBN 0874366100 (0-87436-610-0)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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From early cave drawings to modern corporate logos, graphic symbols have been used to convey meanings both tangible and abstract. In this unique dictionary, Carl G. Liungman puts approximately 2,500 Western graphic symbols at your fingertips. Each entry includes the sign's history, its meanings, and the systems in which it is used. Symbols are cross-referenced to other signs with the same meanings and to structurally similar signs with different meanings. Locating an entry is as easy as looking up a word in a dictionary, due to a system that classifies each sign on the basis of three of its structural features.
Enhancing the dictionary is a series of fascinating discussions of various aspects of ideograms. These include a discussion of signs and meanings, an overview of the historical development of signs, as well as sections on ancient American ideograms, the astrological system of symbols, the mystical pentagram, and the signs of the alchemists. Two indexes aid the reader. The Word Index specifies signs with a given name or meaning, along with subject headings. The Graphic Index displays symbols based on their structural features.
Dictionary of Symbols serves both as a valuable reference on Western cultural history and as a professional tool for those working in design and the arts.
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Discourse and the Social Life of Meaningby Phyllis P. ChockISBN 0874743087 (0-87474-308-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. CressISBN 0872201503 (0-87220-150-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Encyclopedia of American Indian Costumeby Josephine PaterekISBN 0874366852 (0-87436-685-2)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christianby Peter Abelard, Paul Vincent SpadeISBN 0872203220 (0-87220-322-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Everyday Life In Early Imperial China: During the Han Period 202 BC-AD 220by Michael Loewe, Eva WilsonISBN 0872207595 (0-87220-759-5)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Readerby Elliott OringISBN 0874211409 (0-87421-140-9)
Softcover, Utah State University Press
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Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introductionby Elliott OringISBN 087421128X (0-87421-128-X)
Softcover, Utah State Univ Pr
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Folklore Mattersby Alan DundesISBN 0870497766 (0-87049-776-6)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Ghosts and the Japanese: Culture Experience in Japanese Death Legendsby Barre Toelken, Michiko IwasakaISBN 0874211794 (0-87421-179-4)
Softcover, Utah State Univ Pr
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The Gypsies of Eastern Europeby David Crowe, John Kolsti, Ian HancockISBN 0873326725 (0-87332-672-5)
Softcover, Sharpe Incorporated, M. E.
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Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conferenceby David S. Brose, United States, N'Omi Greber, Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryISBN 0873382366 (0-87338-236-6)
Softcover, Kent State University Press
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The Hopi Way: Tales from a Vanishing Cultureby Mando SevillanoISBN 0873584139 (0-87358-413-9)
Softcover, Northland Pub
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Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remainsby Donald Ortner, Walter G. J. PutscharISBN 0874747287 (0-87474-728-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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*Comprehensive review of skeletal diseases encountered in archeological human remains
* More than 1100 photographs and line drawings illustrating skeletal disease including both microscopic and gross features
* Based on extensive research on skeletal paleopathology in many countries for over 35 years
* Review of important theoretical issues in interpreting evidence of skeletal disease in archeological human populations [via]More editions of Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains:
Imagining the Other: First Encounters in North Americaby James AxtellISBN 0872290646 (0-87229-064-6)
Softcover, Amer Historical Assn
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In the Absence of the Sacredby Jerry ManderISBN 0871565099 (0-87156-509-9)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western worlds loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorderand worse lies ahead. Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation.
Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the new world order computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itselfand warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results.More editions of In the Absence of the Sacred:
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazonby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0871132494 (0-87113-249-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Indians of the Southeastern United Statesby John R. SwantonISBN 087474895X (0-87474-895-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Klamath Knotby David Rains WallaceISBN 0871568179 (0-87156-817-9)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolutionby David Rains WallaceISBN 0871563169 (0-87156-316-9)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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Landmarks: Reflections on Anthropologyby Andrew StrathernISBN 0873384792 (0-87338-479-2)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australiaby Bruce KapfererISBN 0874745659 (0-87474-565-9)
Softcover, Smithsonian Institution Press
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of Historyby Howard K. BloomISBN 0871136643 (0-87113-664-3)
Softcover, Pgw
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Macumba: The Teachings of Marie-Jose, Mother of the Godsby Serge Bramly, Maria-JoseISBN 0872862860 (0-87286-286-0)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Macumba is a way of life and belief that is followed by 15 million Brazilians, as well as millions more across the Western Hemisphere. Yet it-along with its sister-religions of Vodun, Santeria, and Ifa-remains a little known and largely misunderstood spiritual path. This book is a welcome introduction to a rich and profound tradition whose roots lie in ancient Africa.
In a series of interviews, Maria José, a Mae de Santo (Mother of the Gods), explains the philosophy and practice of Macumba. She introduces the Orixas, a pantheon of deities who survived the Middle Passage to Brazil along with the African slaves. With humor and grace she describes the essence of Macumba, the divine interaction between humans and living gods, and the spiritual regeneration of its followers.
Meet a fascinating Mother of Gods and discover another path to wisdom. Learn to listen to the drumbeat-heartbeat of the mystical universe as it continues to deepen and expand. Saravá Umbanda!
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The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibwayby Basil JohnstonISBN 0873514114 (0-87351-411-4)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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The Measures of Man: Methodologies in Biological Anthropologyby Eugene Giles, Jonathan S. FriedlanderISBN 0873657829 (0-87365-782-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Mississippian Emergenceby Bruce D. SmithISBN 0874748445 (0-87474-844-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Northwest Coastby Wayne SuttlesISBN 0874741874 (0-87474-187-4)
Hardcover, Smithsonian Institution Press
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The Old Ways: Six Essaysby Gary SnyderISBN 0872860914 (0-87286-091-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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On The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 087220068X (0-87220-068-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Only World We'Ve Got: A Paul Shepard Readerby Paul ShepardISBN 0871563967 (0-87156-396-7)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernaturalby Barbara WalkerISBN 0874211964 (0-87421-196-4)
Softcover, Utah State Univ Pr
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Pilgrims of the Andes: Regional Cults in Cuscoby Michael J. SallnowISBN 0874748267 (0-87474-826-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics Among Western Desert Aboriginesby Fred R. MyersISBN 0874746906 (0-87474-690-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Recent Excavations at the Edwin Harness Mound, Liberty Works, Ross County, Ohioby N'Omi GreberISBN 0873383036 (0-87338-303-6)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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Religion in Relation: Method, Application and Moral Locationby Ivan StrenskiISBN 0872498662 (0-87249-866-2)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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The Rivers Amazonby Alex ShoumatoffISBN 0871567717 (0-87156-771-7)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated
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Russian Folk Beliefby Linda J. IvanitsISBN 0873328892 (0-87332-889-2)
Softcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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Serpent-Handling Believersby Thomas BurtonISBN 087049788X (0-87049-788-X)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Sex, Evolution and Behavior: Adaptations for Reproductionby Martin DalyISBN 0871507676 (0-87150-767-6)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Shaker Communities, Shaker Livesby Priscilla J. BrewerISBN 0874514002 (0-87451-400-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984by William Scranton SimmonsISBN 0874513723 (0-87451-372-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Story Of Mankindby Hendrik Willem Van LoonISBN 0871401568 (0-87140-156-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story Of Mankind'Book summary:Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable tone of Hendrik Willem van Loon's writing lends itself to true learning in a way that stern, dry textbooks never do. In the introduction, he describes climbing a tower in Rotterdam in his youth. Years later, the perspective at the top inspired the author to develop a metaphor of history as a "mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages."
This genuinely enjoyable charmer, for history buffs and the historically challenged alike, covers human history from prehistoric times, when our earliest ancestors were learning to communicate with grunts, right through to the issues of the latter 20th century: gay rights, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and health and fitness. Revised and updated several times since 1921, van Loon's inviting classic is filled with stories (and witty parenthetical asides) that bring history alive. His pen-and-ink illustrations, maps, and animated chronology contribute to the cozy, round the fireplace aspect of the book. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Story Of Mankindby John Merriman, Hendrik Willem Van LoonISBN 0871401754 (0-87140-175-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story Of Mankind'Book summary:Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable tone of Hendrik Willem van Loon's writing lends itself to true learning in a way that stern, dry textbooks never do. In the introduction, he describes climbing a tower in Rotterdam in his youth. Years later, the perspective at the top inspired the author to develop a metaphor of history as a "mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages."
This genuinely enjoyable charmer, for history buffs and the historically challenged alike, covers human history from prehistoric times, when our earliest ancestors were learning to communicate with grunts, right through to the issues of the latter 20th century: gay rights, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and health and fitness. Revised and updated several times since 1921, van Loon's inviting classic is filled with stories (and witty parenthetical asides) that bring history alive. His pen-and-ink illustrations, maps, and animated chronology contribute to the cozy, round the fireplace aspect of the book. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Strangers in High Placesby Michael FromeISBN 0870498061 (0-87049-806-1)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains'Book summary:In this expanded edition of his classic Strangers in High Places, Michael Frome continues to capture the attention and admiration of nature lovers, environmentalists, and professionals as he reviews the last quarter-century in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Frome's superbly written account tells the story of the Great Smoky Mountains and their inhabitantsEastern Cherokee, back-country settlers, lumbermen, moonshiners, bears and boars. Frome chronicles the power struggles, legislation, and land transactions surrounding the creation of the national park and discusses the continuing threats to the park's natural beauty.[via]
Frome's recent conversations with residents, new and old, along with a complement of historic and contemporary photographs, confirm the views stated in the book's original 1966 edition.
The author brings his knowledge, experience, and insights to bear on "one of God's special places." He suggests alternatives to commercial overdevelopment and the destruction of the Great Smokies' flora and fauna, citing recent cases such as the Tellico Dam project and the continuing pollution of the Pigeon River. Always emphasizing our inevitable relationship with our surroundings, Frome relates the story of the Great Smoky Mountains with respect and affection for the region, its people, and their history.
Michael Frome ranks among the foremost American authors on travel and conservation. His interests are closely associated with national parks, national forests, and natural beauty in the United States and other countries. He has been a columnist and correspondent for major newspapers and magazines and a university lecturer. He is author of Conscience of a Conservationist: Selected Essays. 
A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibolaby Victor MindeleffISBN 0874746191 (0-87474-619-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Subarcticby June HelmISBN 0874741866 (0-87474-186-6)
Hardcover, Smithsonian Institution Press
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Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophyby Dennis Tedlock, Barbara TedlockISBN 0871401460 (0-87140-146-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's "Career of the Medicine Man". The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's "American Indian Model of the Universe" and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian's stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled "The Clown's Way" and "An American Indian View of Death". [via]More editions of Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy:
Three Philosophical Dialogues: On Truth, on Freedom of Choice, on the Fall of the Devilby Thomas Williams, AnselmISBN 0872206114 (0-87220-611-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0871138018 (0-87113-801-8)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
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Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Resource Managementby Richmond L. Clow, Imre SuttonISBN 0870816500 (0-87081-650-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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This volume also includes case studies concerning the management of wildlife, forest preservation, tribal hunting laws, and other concerns endemic to the preservation and utilization of the environment on Native American land. An excellent source for scholars in the fields of Native American and environmental studies, Trusteeship in Change is sure to spark debate and to be an important reference book for years to come. [via]More editions of Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Resource Management:
Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the Westby Anne M. Butler, Ona SiporinISBN 0874212103 (0-87421-210-3)
Softcover, Utah State Univ Pr
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Walden Twoby Burrhus Frederic SkinnerISBN 0872207781 (0-87220-778-1)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden Two'Book summary:This title is a reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. From the Preface: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming and polluting as we do, we cannot for long face ourselves while acknowledging the violence and chaos in which we live. The choice is clear: either we do nothing and allow a miserable and probably catastrophic future to overtake us, or we use our knowledge about human behaviour to create a social environment in which we shall live productive and creative lives and do so without jeopardising the chances that those who follow us will be able to do the same. Something like a "Walden Two" would not be a bad start. [via]
The Waring Papers: The Collected Works of Antonio J. Waring Jrby Stephen Williams, Antonio J. WaringISBN 0873651693 (0-87365-169-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Villageby Janet D. SpectorISBN 0873512782 (0-87351-278-2)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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The Wild Country of Mexico: LA Tierra Salvaje De Mexicoby John AnnerinoISBN 0871565366 (0-87156-536-6)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Villageby Erika FriedlISBN 0874744008 (0-87474-400-8)
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Wondrous Mushroom: Sacred Mushrooms in Mexico and Mesoamericaby Not AvailableISBN 0872864847 (0-87286-484-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wondrous Mushroom: Sacred Mushrooms in Mexico and Mesoamerica'Book summary:"From now on any comprehensive study of Ancient Mexican civilization must start from (and with) your discoveries."-Octavio Paz
Gordon Wasson's May 1957 LIFE article describing his encounter with a Mexican shaman woman triggered the psychedelic revolution. In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, we present Wasson's groundbreaking classic, The Wondrous Mushroom, an illustrated, in-depth exploration of the history and cultural meanings of the shamanic use of psychedelic mushrooms in contemporary and ancient Mesoamerican culture.
R. Gordon Wasson (18981986), former vice president of JP Morgan Trust, authored groundbreaking books and articles on sacred mushroom use, culture, and history.
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World Religions: From Ancient History to the Presentby Geoffrey ParrinderISBN 0871961296 (0-87196-129-6)
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