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Africa and Africansby Paul Bohannan, Philip CurtinISBN 0881338400 (0-88133-840-0)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BCby Steven MithenISBN 0674019997 (0-674-01999-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC'Book summary:20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction.
But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler--John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times. With Lubbock, readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric life--from aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara, to the efforts of the Guila Naquitz people in Oaxaca to combat drought with agricultural innovations.
Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers an evocative and uniquely compelling portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world.
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The Ancient Mayaby Robert J. Sharer, Loa P. TraxlerISBN 0804748179 (0-8047-4817-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Readerby Peter J. Brown, Aaron PodolefskyISBN 1559340037 (1-55934-003-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader'Book summary:This supplementary reader is composed of both classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving the present day human condition. [via]
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- Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader: ISBN 1559343257 (1-55934-325-7)
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader: ISBN 0767418379 (0-7674-1837-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader: ISBN 1559340037 (1-55934-003-7)
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Natureby Steven PinkerISBN 0670031518 (0-670-03151-8)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature'Book summary:Our conceptions of human nature affect everything aspect of our lives, from child-rearing to politics to morality to the arts. Yet many fear that scientific discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, and to dissolve personal responsibility.
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature and instead have embraced three dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.
Pinker provides calm in the stormy debate by disentangling the political and moral issues from the scientific ones. He shows that equality, compassion, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about an innately organized psyche. Pinker shows that the new sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution, far from being dangerous, are complementing observations about the human condition made by millennia of artists and philosophers. All this is done in the style that earned his previous books many prizes and worldwide acclaim: irreverent wit, lucid exposition, and startling insight on matters great and small. [via]More editions of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature:
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search For Truth In The Mass Graves Of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, And Kosovoby Clea KoffISBN 1400060648 (1-4000-6064-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Bone Woman is Koffs unflinching, riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, as she shares what she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, and what she learned about the world. Yet even as she recounts the hellish nature of her work and the heartbreak of the survivors, she imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and a sense of justice. A tale of science in service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles. [via]More editions of The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search For Truth In The Mass Graves Of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, And Kosovo:
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The Book of the Deadby E a Wallis BudgeISBN 1406500046 (1-4065-0004-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Dead'Book summary:"Book of the Dead" is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri. The title "Book of the Dead" is somewhat unsatisfactory and misleading, for the texts neither form a connected work nor belong to one period; they are miscellaneous in character, and tell us nothing about the lives and works of the dead with whom they were buried. Moreover, the Egyptians possessed many funerary works that might rightly be called "Books of the Dead," but none of them bore a name that could be translated by the title "Book of the Dead." This title was given to the great collection of funerary texts in the first quarter of the nineteenth century by the pioneer Egyptologists, who....... [via]
Created in God's Imageby Anthony A. HoekemaISBN 0802808506 (0-8028-0850-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Created in God's Image'Book summary:ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed. [via]
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Cultural Anthropology + Student CD-ROM + Powerwebby KottakISBN 0070356157 (0-07-035615-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Cultural Anthropology + Student CD-ROM + Powerweb: ISBN 007229860X (0-07-229860-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Cultural Anthropology + Student CD-ROM + Powerweb: ISBN 0072426594 (0-07-242659-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - Cultural Anthropology + Student CD-ROM + Powerweb: ISBN 0072832258 (0-07-283225-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - Cultural Anthropology + Student CD-ROM + Powerweb: ISBN 0070356157 (0-07-035615-7)
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Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysisby Renato RosaldoISBN 080704623X (0-8070-4623-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Societyby Victor Witter TurnerISBN 0801491517 (0-8014-9151-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Egyptian Book of the Deadby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 1425357334 (1-4253-5733-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead'Book summary:"The Book of Dead" is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text. The book of dead was a description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. [via]
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Egyptian Book of the Deadby Raymond O. FaulknerISBN 0811807673 (0-8118-0767-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egyptian Book of the Dead'Book summary:For millennia, the culture and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians have fascinated artists, historians, and spiritual seekers throughout the world. Now, with this deluxe edition, the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Anithe most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discoveredhas been restored in its original sequences of text and artwork, using the latest advances in computer-imaging technology. Four exquisitely illustrated gatefold spreads and an acclaimed translation by two noted Egyptologists showcase the Papyrus's elaborately bordered images and convey its intended sense of motion and meaning in a way that other books on the subject cannot begin to match. For both lay readers and scholars interested in a wide range of topicsfrom mysticism and philosophy to anthropology and astronomythis sumptuous and accessible new volume will be an essential acquisition. [via]
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Dayby Eva Von Dassow, James Wasserman, Ogden Goelet, Raymond Oliver Faulkner, Raymond FaulknerISBN 0811807924 (0-8118-0792-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day'Book summary:The ancient purpose of the funerary papyrus known as Book of the Dead of Ani was to guide the Egyptian soul to the afterlife, and the iconic text of the ancient culture is presented here for the first time as a single volume. The original is 78 feet in total length and 3,500 years old; this presentation contains the original facsimile edition from 1890. The hieroglyphic text and vignettes are juxtaposed with the English translation of each chapter on the same page that the Egyptian text occurs. The power, wisdom, and spiritual vision offered in its pages goes back to the spiritual and cultural roots of humanity. This beautiful artifact will be a prized possession for those interested in the world of ancient Egyptand in the beginnings of civilization itself. [via]
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day Being the Papyrus of Ani (Royal Scribe of the Divine Offerings), Written and Illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by Scribes and Artists Unknown, Including the Balance of Chapters of the Books...by Eva Von Dassow, James Wasserman, Ogden Goelet, Raymond Oliver FaulknerISBN 9774244346 (977-424-434-6)
Hardcover, American University in Cairo Press
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Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Aniby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 1881316998 (1-881316-99-8)
Softcover, A & B Book Dist Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani'Book summary:The history of the great body of religious compositions which form the Book of the Dead, translated by Wallis Budge [via]
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The Egyptian of the Dead: The Papyrus of Aniby E. A. Wallis BudgeISBN 0760768382 (0-7607-6838-2)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptian of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani'Book summary:"The Egyptian Book of the Dead" is by far the most sensational book handed down from the priests of ancient Egypt. After nearly 4500 years it still intrigues modern readers with its imaginative insights into the universal human condition and the desire for a blissful afterlife. Entombed with this book of rituals, the deceased had an illustrated travel guide for the nightly journey with the sun through the dark and dangerous underworld, providing a guarantee of resurrection in the afterlife at dawn. We discover in the Book of the Dead a commonly shared humanity that reaches out to us across more than four thousand years with timeless and universal expressions of hopes and fears that are sometimes quite familiar, sometimes quite strange. "The Book of the Dead" did not have a single author, as it is a composite work written by unknown Egyptian priests over a period of nearly 1000 years, but there is an author to whom we are deeply indebted: British Egyptologist Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934). Budge was an extremely productive scholar who drew attention to many Egyptian and other ancient writings that might otherwise have remained unpublished. [via]
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Explorations in Cross-Cultural Psychologyby Douglass Richard Price-WilliamsISBN 0883165074 (0-88316-507-4)
Hardcover, Chandler & Sharp
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From Lucy to Languageby Donald Johanson, Blake Edgar, David L. BrillISBN 0743280644 (0-7432-8064-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and Peopleby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0802139434 (0-8021-3943-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Languageby Robin DunbarISBN 0674363361 (0-674-36336-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language'Book summary:What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative species. Psychologist Robin Dunbar looks at gossip as an instrument of social order and cohesion--much like the endless grooming with which our primate cousins tend to their social relationships.
Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of these relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is about cementing bonds, making friends, and influencing fellow primates. But for early humans, grooming as a way to social success posed a problem: given their large social groups of 150 or so, our earliest ancestors would have had to spend almost half their time grooming one another--an impossible burden. What Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the same purpose, but far more efficiently. It seems there is nothing idle about chatter, which holds together a diverse, dynamic group--whether of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, or workmates.
Anthropologists have long assumed that language developed in relationships among males during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's original and extremely interesting studies suggest otherwise: that language in fact evolved in response to our need to keep up to date with friends and family. We needed conversation to stay in touch, and we still need it in ways that will not be satisfied by teleconferencing, email, or any other communication technology. As Dunbar shows, the impersonal world of cyberspace will not fulfill our primordial need for face-to-face contact.
From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language offers a provocative view of what makes us human, what holds us together, and what sets us apart.
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Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manualby William M. BassISBN 0943414814 (0-943414-81-4)
Softcover, Missouri Archaeological Society
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Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual of Human Skeletonby William BassISBN 0943414687 (0-943414-68-7)
Softcover, Missouri Archaeological Society
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The Human Phenomenonby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 1902210301 (1-902210-30-1)
Softcover, Sussex Academic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Phenomenon'Book summary:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a priest , paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication, LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN, attracted world-wide attention when it was first published. He wrote of the beginnings of our planet, the emergence of life, the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe. The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardin's vision. Sarah Appleton-Weber has based her new translation, which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation (Paris), on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text. Poet and scholar Appleton-Weber, who has closely studied Teilhard's essays, letters, and other writing, gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhard's book. [via]
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Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropologyby James Peoples, Garrick BaileyISBN 0534514553 (0-534-51455-3)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Humanity With Infotrac: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology With Infotracby James PeoplesISBN 0534588131 (0-534-58813-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert K.G. TempleISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Immense Journeyby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0809436515 (0-8094-3651-5)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0688121411 (0-688-12141-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 9706516212 (970-651-621-2)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martinez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain how the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.... RICHARD EDWARD MARTINEZ is an independent scholar who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA. [via]
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The Lost Civilization of the Stone Ageby Richard RudgleyISBN 0684862700 (0-684-86270-0)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Civilization of the Stone Age'Book summary:Among historians, one of the most widely accepted criteria for a society's being "civilized" is whether it has a writing system, one that permits complex record keeping and allows for an account of the past. By that measure, writes British museologist Richard Rudgley, many societies of the most ancient Stone Age are to be reckoned as civilizations, for new archaeological evidence suggests that the Neolithic writing systems of cultures like Mesopotamia and the Nile valley have their roots in even older systems, some dating back to the time of the Neanderthals. (Just what those writing systems say remains a matter of debate, and Rudgley acknowledges that "if a script cannot be deciphered, then it will always be possible to dismiss it.") Prehistoric sign systems aside, Rudgley urges that the chronology of human cultural evolution be pushed back well into the Paleolithic; "the most fundamental cultural innovations," he suggests, "actually occurred far earlier in the overall sequence [of human development] than is generally realized." He maintains, for instance, that fired pottery, another characteristic of civilized societies, existed among Siberian nomads some 13,000 years ago, and that a knowledge of metallurgy existed in Egypt 35,000 years ago. Any call for a revision in widely accepted chronologies is, of course, sure to be controversial among prehistorians, and Rudgley's book, well reasoned as it is, will provoke debate. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviorby Desmond MorrisISBN 0810921847 (0-8109-2184-7)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior'Book summary:This is a book about actions, about how actions become gestures and about how gestures transmit messages. Psychologists have long studied what makes people tick. Now Desmond Morris reveals that makes people twitch, stare, grimace, point, poke and shrug. Here is a complete and fascinating catalog of human behavior, closely examined in Morris lively text and hundreds of telling photographs, drawings, and historical prints. In this captivating anthology of body language are the postures, hand gestures, and facial expressions that accompany our true feelings, often hidden under the mask of convention. Here is how we pantomime the meaning beneath our outward behavior in the whole range of social situations. This is the new science of 'Manwatching,' a study that has occupied Desmond Morris for a decade.
Traveling widely, he has collected countless observations of ways people act.. in public and private, in all social contexts, among all ages and both sexes. And more than merely observing, he has categorized this revealing panorama of feeling and desire. But just as the birdwatcher does not study birds in order to shoot them, the Manwatcher seeks to understand, to read the secrets of our unspoken languages. This is the value and delight of the book... a set of keys to human understanding and appreciation that will enlighten and enrich daily life.
Illustrated with 470 photographs, 290 in color, and some 250 drawings, prints and diagrams. [via]More editions of Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior:
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Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selectionby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0679442650 (0-679-44265-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection'Book summary:Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection should be required reading for anyone who happens to be a human being. In it, Hrdy reveals the motivations behind some of our most primal and hotly contested behavioral patterns--those concerning gender roles, mate choice, sex, reproduction, and parenting--and the ideas and institutions that have grown up around them. She unblinkingly examines and illuminates such difficult subjects as control of reproductive rights, infanticide, "mother love," and maternal ambition with its ever-contested companions: child care and the limits of maternal responsibility. Without ever denying personal accountability, she points out that many of the patterns of abuse and neglect that we see in cultures around the world (including, of course, our own) are neither unpredictable nor maladaptive in evolutionary terms. "Mother" Nature, as she points out, is not particularly concerned with what we call "morality." The philosophical and political implications of our own deeply-rooted behaviors are for us to determine--which can be done all the better with the kind of understanding gleaned from this exhaustive work.
Hrdy's passion for this material is evident, and she is deeply aware of the personal stake she has here as a woman, a mother, and a professional. This highly accomplished author relies on her own extensive research background as well as the works of others in multiple disciplines (anthropology, primatology, sociobiology, psychology, and even literature). Despite the exhaustive documentation given to her conclusions (as witness the 140-plus-page notes and bibliography sections), the book unfolds in an exceptionally lucid, readable, and often humorous manner. It is a truly compelling read, highly recommended. --Katherine Ferguson [via]
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0837120004 (0-8371-2000-4)
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The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Futureby Cynthia EllerISBN 0807067938 (0-8070-6793-8)
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0531002462 (0-531-00246-2)
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Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Baliby Clifford GeertzISBN 0691007780 (0-691-00778-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali'Book summary:Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America.
His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.
Negara means "country" or "seat of political authority" in Indonesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for.... Power served pomp, not pomp power." Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society.
Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.
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Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Familyby Jean L. BriggsISBN 0674608283 (0-674-60828-3)
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The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropologyby Bruce J. MalinaISBN 0664222951 (0-664-22295-1)
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The Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0606300023 (0-606-30002-3)
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destinyby Robert WrightISBN 0679758941 (0-679-75894-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny'Book summary:Nonzero, from New Republic writer Robert Wright, is a difficult and important book--well worth reading--addressing the controversial question of purpose in evolution. Using language suggesting that natural selection is a designer's tool, Wright inevitably draws the conclusion that evolution is goal-oriented (or at least moves toward inevitable ends independently of environmental or contingent variables).
The underlying reason that non-zero-sum games wind up being played well is the same in biological evolution as in cultural evolution. Whether you are a bunch of genes or a bunch of memes, if you're all in the same boat you'll tend to perish unless you are conducive to productive coordination.... Genetic evolution thus tends to create smoothly integrated organisms, and cultural evolution tends to create smoothly integrated groups of organisms.
Admittedly, it's as hard to think clearly about natural selection as it is to think about God, but that makes it just as important to acknowledge our biases and try to exclude them from our conclusions. It is this that makes Nonzero potentially unsatisfying to the scientifically literate. Time after time we've seen thinkers try to find in biological evolution a "drive toward complexity" that might explain all sorts of other phenomena from economics to spirituality. Some authors, like Teilhard de Chardin, have much to offer the careful reader who takes pains to read metaphorically. Others--legions of cranks--provide nothing but opaque diatribes culminating in often-bizarre assertions proven to nobody but the author. Wright is much closer to de Chardin along this axis; his anthropological scholarship is particularly noteworthy, and his grasp of world history is excellent. Unfortunately, he has the advocate's willingness to blind himself to disagreeable facts and to muddle over concepts whose clarity would be poisonous to his positions: try to pin him down on what he means by complexity, for example. Still, his thesis that human cultures are historically striving for cooperative, nonzero-sum situations is heartening and compelling; even though it's not supported by biology, it's not knocked down, either. If the reader can work around the undefined assumptions, Wright's charm and obvious interest in planetary survival make Nonzero a worthy read. If the first chapter's title--"The Ladder of Cultural Evolution"--makes you cringe, the last one--"You Call This a God?"--will make you smile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forestby Wade DavisISBN 0684834960 (0-684-83496-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest'Book summary:Best known for The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist interested in the native uses of plants, especially psychotropics. He finds many such plants in the travels he recounts in One River, especially coca and curare. (The first, famously, is a curse in the First World but is a necessity in the Andes, where it promotes the digestion of many kinds of food plants.) Framing Davis's narrative is an account of the dangerous World War II-era Amazonian expeditions undertaken by his mentor, Harvard biologist Richard Evans Schultes. Davis describes a few hair-raising encounters of his own, making this a fine book of scientific adventure. [via]
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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the Worldby Hugh BrodyISBN 1550548069 (1-55054-806-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World'Book summary:Hugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the farmers and their colonizing descendantsourselveswho are the true nomads, doomed to the geographical and spiritual restlessness embodied in the story of Genesis. By contrast, the hunters have a deep attachment to the place and ways of their ancestors that stems from an enviable sense, distinctively expressed in thought, word, and act, of being part of the fabric of the natural and spiritual worlds.[via]More editions of The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World:
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Phenomenon of Manby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0809591537 (0-8095-9153-7)
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0759101337 (0-7591-0133-7)
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Shelters of Stoneby Jean M. AuelISBN 055328942X (0-553-28942-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelters of Stone'Book summary:Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Study of Cultureby L.L. LangnessISBN 0883165562 (0-88316-556-2)
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprenticeby Mark J. PlotkinISBN 0844671320 (0-8446-7132-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice'Book summary:A century ago, malaria was killing Washingtonians, Londoners, Parisians. Today HIV, along with various cancers, has taken its place among worldwide epidemics. Quinine, extracted from the cinchona tree of the Amazonian rainforest, quelled malaria; alkaloids taken from trees in the West African rainforest may well yield a cure for AIDS. Yet those woods, Mark Plotkin tells us, are fast disappearing, along with the native peoples who know the powers of the plants that dwell there. His account of wandering through the Amazonian jungles focuses on local knowledge about plants, whose uses range from the mundane to the magical. The rainforests of the world, Plotkin notes, are our greatest natural resource, an intercultural pharmacy that can cure woes both known and yet unvisited. [via]
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice : An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forestby Mark J. PlotkinISBN 0670831379 (0-670-83137-9)
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spiritby Melvin KonnerISBN 0060910704 (0-06-091070-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit'Book summary:First published twenty years ago to great acclaim, The Tangled Wing soon became a must-read for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior and emotions. Since then however, revolutions have taken place in the biological sciences--not only in genetics but molecular biology and neuroscience as well. All of these innovations have been brought into account in this vastly expanded edition of a book originally called an "overwhelming achievement" by the Times Literary Supplement.[via]
In a masterful synthesis of biology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, Konner delves unabashedly into the seat of human emotions. He shows what is "natural" and what is merely construct. His discussion and analysis are both sensitive and straightforward, ranging from such compelling topics as brain differences between the sexes to the roots of mental illness. Finally, in a stirring tribute to the human spirit, he demonstrates how our tremendous capacity for change illuminates our prospects for the future.
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Tell My Horseby Zora N. HurstonISBN 0913666335 (0-913666-33-5)
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Thomason Advantage Books Humanity With Infotrac: An Introduction To Cultural Anthropologyby James Peoples, Garrick Alan BaileyISBN 0534646433 (0-534-64643-3)
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True Hallucinations and the Archaic Revivalby Terence McKennaISBN 1567312896 (1-56731-289-6)
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Voodoo in Haitiby Alfred MetrauxISBN 1425488757 (1-4254-8875-7)
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Originsby Alan Walker, Pat ShipmanISBN 0679747834 (0-679-74783-4)
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Et L'homme Crea Les Dieux: Comment Expliquer La Religionby Pascal BoyerISBN 2221090462 (2-221-09046-2)
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Les Refuges De Pierreby Jean AuelISBN 2258058376 (2-258-05837-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Refuges De Pierre'Book summary:Dans ce cinquième volet de la saga préhistorique « Les Enfants de la Terre », Ayla donne naissance à un enfant très attendu et prend conscience du rôle qu'elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii, la tribu de Jondalar. Après un long voyage épique à travers l'Europe, Ayla et Jondalar arrivent à l'emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l'âge de pierre situé dans ce qu'on appellera bien plus tard le Périgord. C'est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l'a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L'accueil fait à Ayla est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, elle est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la jeune femme étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur façon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Plongée dans cet univers étranger, Ayla parviendra-t-elle à gagner la confiance des membres de la tribu de Jondalar ? [via]
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 0743233573 (0-7432-3357-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:UNA DE LAS SAGAS MáS POPULARES DE NUESTRA ÉPOCA
Los Refugios de Piedra comienza cuando Ayla y Jondalar terminan su épico viaje a través de Europa en compañía de sus amigos, los animales Lobo, Relinchona y Corredor, y son bienvenidos por los zelandones, la gente del pueblo de Jondalar. Ayla se siente fascinada por la gente de la Novena Cueva de los zelandones. Y en Zelandoni, la líder espiritual de la Novena Cueva, y quien inició a Jondalar en el Regalo del Placer, descubre a una compañera con poderes curativos con quien compartir sus conocimientos y habilidades.
Pero en tanto que Ayla y Jondalar se preparan para convertirse formalmente en pareja durante los Encuentros de Verano, se presentan dificultades. No todos los zelandones los reciben con agrado. Algunos temen la influencia de Ayla y detestan su relación con aquellos a quienes llaman cabezas chatas, y ella llama los del Clan. Algunos hasta se oponen a que forme pareja con Jondalar y hacen evidente su disgusto. Ayla tiene que recurrir a todas sus habilidades, inteligencia, conocimientos e instintos para poder hallar el camino en esta complicada sociedad, prepararse para el nacimiento de su hijo, y decidir si está dispuesta a aceptar nuevos desafíos y desempeñar un papel significativo en el destino de los zelandones. [via]
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La Tabla Rasaby Steven PinkerISBN 8449314895 (84-493-1489-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Tabla Rasa'Book summary:La concepción que podamos tener de la naturaleza humana afecta a todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, desde la forma en que educamos a nuestros hijos hasta las ideas políticas que defendemos. Sin embargo, en un momento en que la ciencia está avanzando espectacularmente en estos temas, muchas personas se muestran hostiles al respecto. Temen que los descubrimientos sobre los patrones innatos del pensar y el sentir se puedan emplear para justificar la desigualdad, subvertir el orden social, anular la responsabilidad personal y confundir el sentido y el propósito de la vida.En La tabla rasa, Steven Pinker explora la idea de la naturaleza humana y sus aspectos éticos, emocionales y políticos. Demuestra que muchos intelectuales han negado su existencia al defender tres dogmas entrelazados: la tabla rasa (la mente no tiene características innatas), el buen salvaje (la persona nace buena y la sociedad la corrompe) y el fantasma en la máquina (todos tenemos un alma que toma decisiones sin depender de la biología). Cada dogma sobrelleva una carga ética, y por eso sus defensores se obcecan en tácticas desesperadas para desacreditar a los científicos que los cuestionan.Pinker aporta calma y serenidad a estos debates al mostrar que la igualdad, el progreso, la responsabilidad y el propósito nada tienen que temer de los descubrimientos sobre la complejidad de la naturaleza humana. Con un razonamiento claro, sencillez en la exposición y ejemplos procedentes de la ciencia y la historia, el autor desmonta incluso las amenazas más inquietantes. Y demuestra que un reconocimiento de la naturaleza humana basado en la ciencia y el sentido común, lejos de ser peligroso, puede ser un complemento a las ideas sobre la condición humana que miles de miles de artistas y filósofos han generado. Todo ello aderezado con un estilo que, en sus obras anteriores, le sirvió para conseguir muchos premios y el aplauso internacional: ingenio, lucidez y agudeza en el análisis de todos los asuntos, sean grandes o pequeños. [via]
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Ayla Und Der Stein Des Feuersby Jean AuelISBN 3453213998 (3-453-21399-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ayla Und Der Stein Des Feuers'Book summary:Zwölf Jahre dauerte die schöpferische Pause der unbestrittenen Königin des prähistorischen Romans -- doch jetzt können alle Fans aufatmen: Der fünfte Band aus der Reihe der Ayla-Romane ist endlich erschienen. Nahtlos setzt Auel die Geschichte von Ayla und das Tal der Großen Mutter fort und erzählt, wie die Steinzeit-Heldin am Ende ihrer langen Reise quer durch Europa in der Heimat ihres Gefährten Jondalar aufgenommen wird.
Ayla ist eine Angehörige der Cro-Magnon-Menschen, die dem heutigen Homo sapiens schon sehr ähnlich waren, aber die Welt vor 30.000 Jahren noch mit den Neandertalern teilten. In Ayla und der Clan des Bären wurde die fünfjährige Ayla durch einen Erdrutsch zur Waise und vorbeiziehende Neandertaler nahmen das fremdartige Kind auf. Dieser erste Band bezieht einen Großteil seiner Faszination aus der Konfrontation zweier sehr unterschiedlicher, menschlicher Spezies. Ebenso faszinierend ist der beeindruckend recherchierte Detailreichtum, mit der Auel das prähistorische Europa für ihre Leser zum Leben erweckt.
Dem fünften Band kann man dasselbe vorwerfen wie auch schon früheren Bänden: Allzu verliebt ist die Autorin in ihre Heldin, die sich nach ihrer schweren Kindheit jetzt der verzückten Bewunderung ihrer Freunde allzeit sicher sein kann. Darüber hinaus verliert sich Auel oft in detaillierten Beschreibungen und Wiederholungen und vernachlässigt dabei die eigentliche Handlung. Doch ungebrochen ist die Faszination, die Auels Reise in die Urzeit auf uns ausübt: Ayla steht für den Einfallsreichtum und Überlebenswillen unserer Vorfahren, für den Anbeginn der menschlichen Zivilisation.
Nicht zuletzt werden Auels Romane auch als Liebegeschichte geschätzt, die nicht mit Einzelheiten aus dem Intimleben ihrer Titelheldin geizt. Und nach vielen scharfsinnigen Überlegungen der Steinzeit-Medizinerin, wo denn eigentlich die Babies herkommen, können sich alle Fans auf ein ganz besonderes Highlight im fünften Band freuen. --Birgit Will [via]
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