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African Folktalesby Paul RadinISBN 069101762X (0-691-01762-X)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Ancient Near East: A New Anthology of Texts and Picturesby James Bennett PritchardISBN 0691002096 (0-691-00209-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Animal Daysby Desmond MorrisISBN 068803666X (0-688-03666-X)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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The Ape That Spokeby John McCroneISBN 068810326X (0-688-10326-X)
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Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbol's of Humankindby Anthony StevensISBN 0691004595 (0-691-00459-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbol's of Humankind'Book summary:"Stevens has a unique capacity for relating myths and symbols to the way our psyches function today, thus bringing symbols alive rather than dismissing them as historical curiosities. He is also a stylish writer, and is able to link his conclusions from a variety of fields into a consistent, readable whole."--Anthony Storr, University of Oxford
Symbolism is the most powerful and ancient means of communication available to humankind. For centuries people have expressed their preoccupations and concerns through symbolism in the form of myths, stories, religions, and dreams. The meaning of symbols has long been debated among philosophers, antiquarians, theologians, and, more recently, anthropologists and psychologists. In Ariadne's Clue, distinguished analyst and psychiatrist Anthony Stevens explores the nature of symbols and explains how and why we create the symbols we do.
The book is divided into two parts: an interpretive section that concerns symbols in general and a "dictionary" that lists hundreds of symbols and explains their origins, their resemblances to other symbols, and the belief systems behind them. In the first section, Stevens takes the ideas of C. G. Jung a stage further, asserting not only that we possess an innate symbol-forming propensity that exists as a creative and integral part of our psychic make-up, but also that the human mind evolved this capacity as a result of selection pressures encountered by our species in the course of its evolutionary history. Stevens argues that symbol formation has an adaptive function: it promotes our grasp on reality and in dreams often corrects deficient modes of psychological functioning. In the second section, Stevens examines symbols under four headings: "The Physical Environment," "Culture and Psyche," "People, Animals, and Plants," and "The Body." Many of the symbols are illustrated in the book's rich variety of woodcuts. From the ancient symbol of the serpent to the archetypal masculine and feminine, from the earth to the stars, from the primordial landscape of the savannah to the mysterious depths of the sea, Stevens traces a host of common symbols back through time to reveal their psychodynamic functioning and looks at their deep-rooted effects on the lives of modern men, women, and children. [via]
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Arigo:Surgeon of the Rusty Knife: Surgeon of the Rusty Knifeby John Grant FullerISBN 0690005121 (0-690-00512-1)
Hardcover, Crowell
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The Bible As Historyby Werner KellerISBN 0688037240 (0-688-03724-0)
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Natureby Janine M. BenyusISBN 0688160999 (0-688-16099-9)
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Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Communityby Steven GregoryISBN 0691029369 (0-691-02936-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
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The Book of Were-wolvesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0685325954 (0-685-32595-4)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italyby Douglas R. HolmesISBN 0691028494 (0-691-02849-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russiaby Stephen Frank, Mark D. SteinbergISBN 0691001065 (0-691-00106-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class Russians engaged the world around them.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M. Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein, and Christine D. Worobec.
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The Death Rituals of Rural Greeceby Loring M. Danforth, Alexander TsiarasISBN 0691000271 (0-691-00027-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death Rituals of Rural Greece'Book summary:This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community? That is the villagers' dilemma, and our own. Thirty-one moving photographs (reproduced in duotone to do justice to their great beauty) combine with vivid descriptions of the bereaved women of "Potamia" and with the words of the funeral laments to allow the reader an unusual emotional identification with the people of rural Greece as they struggle to integrate the experience of death into their daily lives.
Loring M. Danforth's sensitive use of symbolic and structural analysis complements his discussion of the social context in which these rituals occur. He explores important themes in rural Greek life, such as the position of women, patterns of reciprocity and obligation, and the nature of social relations within the family.
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Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Cultureby Charles StewartISBN 0691028486 (0-691-02848-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, Jean-Claude SuaresISBN 0690017650 (0-690-01765-0)
Softcover, T. Y. Crowell
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAby James D. Watson, L. BraggISBN 0689706022 (0-689-70602-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Softwareby Steven JohnsonISBN 0684868768 (0-684-86876-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software'Book summary:An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.
Most game players, alas, live on something close to day-trader time, at least when they're in the middle of a game--thinking more about their next move than their next meal, and usually blissfully oblivious to the ten- or twenty-year trajectory of software development. No one wants to play with a toy that's going to be fun after a few decades of tinkering--the toys have to be engaging now, or kids will find other toys.
Johnson has a knack for explaining complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without stealing the scene. Though we're far from fully understanding how complex behavior manifests from simple units and rules, our awareness that such emergence is possible is guiding research across disciplines. Readers unfamiliar with the sciences of complexity will find Emergence an excellent starting point, while those who were chaotic before it was cool will appreciate its updates and wider scope. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriageby James M. TaggartISBN 0691028524 (0-691-02852-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Essays on the Anthropology of Reasonby Paul RabinowISBN 0691011583 (0-691-01158-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliationby Volf MiroslavISBN 0687002826 (0-687-00282-6)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation'Book summary:Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.
Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "learn to live with one another," but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God.
Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Miroslav Volf, a Yale University theologian, has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). Volf argues that exclusion of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today. He writes, It may not be too much to claim that the future of our world will depend on how we deal with identity and difference. The issue is urgent. The ghettos and battlefields throughout the worldin the living rooms, in inner cities, or on the mountain rangestestify indisputably to its importance. A Croatian by birth, Volf takes as a starting point for his analysis the recent civil war and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, but he readily finds other examples of cultural, ethnic, and racial conflict to illustrate his points. And, since September 11, one can scarcely help but plug the new world players into his incisive descriptions of the dynamics of interethnic and international strife.
Exclusion happens, Volf argues, wherever impenetrable barriers are set up that prevent a creative encounter with the other. It is easy to assume that exclusion is the problem or practice of barbarians who live over there, but Volf persuades us that exclusion is all too often our practice here as well. Modern western societies, including American society, typically recite their histories as narratives of inclusion, and Volf celebrates the truth in these narratives. But he points out that these narratives conveniently omit certain groups who disturb the integrity of their happy ending plots. Therefore such narratives of inclusion invite long and gruesome counter-narratives of exclusionthe brutal histories of slavery and of the decimation of Native American populations come readily to mind, but more current examples could also be found.
Most proposed solutions to the problem of exclusion have focused on social arrangementswhat kind of society ought we to create in order to accommodate individual or communal difference? Volf focuses, rather, on what kind of selves we need to be in order to live in harmony with others. In addressing the topic, Volf stresses the social implications of divine self-giving. The Christian scriptures attest that God does not abandon the godless to their evil, but gives of Godself to bring them into communion. We are called to do likewise whoever our enemies and whoever we may be. The divine mandate to embrace as God has embraced is summarized in Pauls injunction to the Romans: Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you (Romans 15:7).
Susan R. Garrett, Coordinator of the Religion Award, said that the Grawemeyer selection committee praised Volfs book on many counts. These included its profound interpretation of certain pivotal passages of Scripture and its brilliant engagement with contemporary theology, philosophy, critical theory, and feminist theory. Volfs focus is not on social strategies or programs but, rather, on showing us new ways to understand ourselves and our relation to our enemies. He helps us to imagine new possibilities for living against violence, injustice, and deception. Garrett added that, although addressed primarily to Christians, Volf's theological statement opens itself to religious pluralism by upholding the importance of different religious and cultural traditions for the formation of personal and group identity. The call to embrace the other is never a call to remake the other into ones own image. Volfwho had just delivered a lecture on the topic of Exclusion and Embrace at a prayer breakfast for the United Nations when the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Centerwill present a lecture and receive his award in Louisville during the first week of April, 2002.
The annual Religion Award, which includes a cash prize of $200,000, is given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville to the authors or originators of creative works that contribute significantly to an understanding of the relationship between human beings and the divine, and ways in which this relationship may inspire or empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity, or meaning, either individually or in community. The Grawemeyer awardsgiven also by the University of Louisville in the fields of musical composition, education, psychology, and world orderhonor the virtue of accessibility: works chosen for the awards must be comprehensible to thinking persons who are not specialists in the various fields.
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Explorations in Anthropology:Readings in Culture, Man, and Nature: Readings in Culture, Man, and Natureby Morton H. FriedISBN 0690282524 (0-690-28252-4)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Fielding's Egypt and the Archaeological Sitesby A. Hoyt Hobbs, Joy AdzigianISBN 0688027911 (0-688-02791-1)
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Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movementby Loring M. DanforthISBN 0691028532 (0-691-02853-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Firmament of Timeby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0689700687 (0-689-70068-7)
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From Ritual to Romanceby Jessie L. WestonISBN 0691021074 (0-691-02107-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Ritual to Romance'Book summary:Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She maintains that all versions defy uniform applications of Celtic and Christian interpretations, and explores the legend's Gnostic roots.
Drawing from J. G. Frazer, who studied ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land, Weston considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites--with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. She traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Conceiving of the Grail saga as a literary outgrowth of ancient ritual, she seeks a Gnostic Christian interpretation that unites the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God.
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The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines: China, Greece, and Romeby Jeff SmithISBN 0688075894 (0-688-07589-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Genesis Factorby Robert A. WallaceISBN 0688035361 (0-688-03536-1)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Great Mother an Analysis of the Archetypeby Erich Neumann, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691017808 (0-691-01780-8)
Softcover, Bollingen Foundation
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Talesby Maria TatarISBN 0691014876 (0-691-01487-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islamby Robert W. HefnerISBN 0691028567 (0-691-02856-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Hominidsby Helen Roney Sattler, Christopher SantoroISBN 0688060617 (0-688-06061-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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How Natives Thinkby Lucien Levy-BruhlISBN 0691020345 (0-691-02034-5)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Human Sacrifice--In History and Todayby Nigel DaviesISBN 0688037550 (0-688-03755-0)
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Humanity's Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instabilityby Richard PottsISBN 0688104703 (0-688-10470-3)
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A Hundred Years of Anthropologyby T. K. PennimanISBN 068805269X (0-688-05269-X)
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Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolismby Mircea Eliade, Philip MairetISBN 069102068X (0-691-02068-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrineby Jill DubischISBN 0691029679 (0-691-02967-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversationby Michael AgarISBN 0688149499 (0-688-14949-9)
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineeringby Sherry OrtnerISBN 069100689X (0-691-00689-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Lootby Aaron J. ElkinsISBN 0688159273 (0-688-15927-3)
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Lost City of the Incas: The Story of Machu Picchu and Its Buildersby Hiram BinghamISBN 0689700148 (0-689-70014-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United Statesby Bill BrysonISBN 068810312X (0-688-10312-X)
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Made in America will supply you with interesting facts and cocktail chatter for a year or more. Did you know, for example, that Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" credo has its roots in a West African proverb? Or that actor Walter Matthau's given name is Walter Mattaschanskayasky? Or that the supposedly frigid Puritans--who called themselves "Saints," by the way--had something called a pre-contract, which was a license for premarital sex? Made in America is an excellent discussion of American English, but what makes the book such a treasure is that it offers much, much more. [via]
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Miss Mary Mackby Joanna Cole, Stephanie CalmensonISBN 0688097499 (0-688-09749-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Monkey As Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritualby Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyISBN 069102846X (0-691-02846-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Moon-Flashby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0689310498 (0-689-31049-8)
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Mortals and Immortalsby Jean-Pierre Vernant, Froma I. ZeitlinISBN 0691019312 (0-691-01931-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Muslims Through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Societyby John Richard BowenISBN 0691028702 (0-691-02870-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bowen considers the power these debates accord to language, especially in arguments over spells, rites of farming, hunting, and healing. Moreover, he traces in these debates a general conception of transacting with spirits that has shaped Gayo practices of sacrifice, worship, and aiding the dead. Bowen concludes by examining the development of competing religious ideas in the highlands, the alternative ritual forms and ideas they have pro-mulgated, and the implications of this phenomenon for the emergence of an Islamic public sphere.
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The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Vol 2by EranosISBN 0691018235 (0-691-01823-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Myth, Religion, and Mother Rightby Ralph ManheimISBN 0691017972 (0-691-01797-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Mythology of Mexico and Central Americaby John BierhorstISBN 0688067212 (0-688-06721-2)
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The Mythology of South Americaby John BierhorstISBN 0688066666 (0-688-06666-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Navaho Religion: A Study of Symbolismby Gladys A. ReichardISBN 0691019061 (0-691-01906-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Passage through El Dorado: Traveling the World's Last Great Wildernessby Jonathan KandellISBN 0688026648 (0-688-02664-8)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailmentsby Paul W. EwaldISBN 0684869004 (0-684-86900-4)
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The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Meiby David Tod RoyISBN 0691016143 (0-691-01614-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Baliby J. Stephen LansingISBN 069102863X (0-691-02863-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religionby Jane Ellen HarrisonISBN 0691015147 (0-691-01514-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Futureby Duane ElginISBN 0688171915 (0-688-17191-5)
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Ransomby Jon ClearyISBN 0688000282 (0-688-00028-2)
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Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistanceby David FrankfurterISBN 0691026858 (0-691-02685-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Revolutions of 1848, a Social Historyby Priscilla RobertsonISBN 069100756X (0-691-00756-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indiansby Paul RadinISBN 0691019169 (0-691-01916-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0689844085 (0-689-84408-5)
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Robinson Crusoe, once a brave sailor out to seek his fortune, is now a captive -- a captive of a lonely desert island on which he is marooned. With only his wits and the few supplies he is able to carry from his sinking ship to sustain him, he is forced to create a new life for himself, out of virtually nothing.As the years go by, Crusoe slowly becomes accustomed to a life of solitude. He has only Pol -- the parrot he has tamed -- a few cats, and some wild goats to keep him company and gradually, his island becomes more of a paradise than a prison. But this tranquility is unexpectedly shattered when one day, he sees a footprint...soon to be followed by a group of savages who have invaded his island. Crusoe finds himself fiercely defending an island that has become his own, and fighting for the chance to return home.
Carefully abridged for younger readers, this second addition to the Scribner Storybook Classic line, with striking illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, revitalizes Daniel Defoe's acclaimed tale of survival, self-reliance, adventure, and faith. [via]
The Rothschilds: A Family Portraitby Frederic MortonISBN 068970657X (0-689-70657-X)
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasyby Mircea EliadeISBN 0691017794 (0-691-01779-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Small Town in Mass Society; Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community,by Arthur J. VidichISBN 0691028079 (0-691-02807-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian Cityby James T. SiegelISBN 0691000859 (0-691-00085-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" Americaby Kathleen StewartISBN 0691011036 (0-691-01103-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlockby Dyan ElliottISBN 0691010889 (0-691-01088-9)
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The Tao of Symbolsby James N. PowellISBN 0688013546 (0-688-01354-6)
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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encountersby Vincanne AdamsISBN 0691001111 (0-691-00111-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.
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Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distanceby Mary W. HelmsISBN 0691028400 (0-691-02840-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreamsby C. G. Jung, R. F. C. HullISBN 0691018944 (0-691-01894-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Vision, Race and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image Worldby Deborah PooleISBN 0691006458 (0-691-00645-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vision, Race and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World'Book summary:Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century.
Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.
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Voices from the Stone Age: A Search for Cave and Canyon Artby Douglas MazonowiczISBN 0690005741 (0-690-00574-1)
Hardcover, Crowell
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A Walden Two Experiment: The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Communityby Kathleen KinkadeISBN 0688050204 (0-688-05020-4)
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The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight in the Male Psycheby Robert Moore, Douglas GilletteISBN 0688095925 (0-688-09592-5)
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The Ways of My Grandmothersby Beverly Hungry WolfISBN 0688004717 (0-688-00471-7)
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The Wisdom of the Serpentby Joseph L. Henderson, Maud OakesISBN 0691020647 (0-691-02064-7)
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"This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
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Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writingby Fedwa Malti-DouglasISBN 0691014884 (0-691-01488-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Communityby Sally Cooper ColeISBN 0691028621 (0-691-02862-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Yoga: Immortality and Freedomby Mircea EliadeISBN 0691017646 (0-691-01764-6)
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversationby Deborah Tannen, Maria GuarnashaelliISBN 0688078222 (0-688-07822-2)
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Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said.
Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.
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Zen and Japanese Cultureby Daisetz T. SuzukiISBN 0691017700 (0-691-01770-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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