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(P/B) DESERT PEOPLES
"Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives" provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. It brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa. It examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to...
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(P/B) THE TIMUCUA
This is the history of the Timucua, an American Indian people who thrived for centuries in the Southeast portion of the United States only to become extinct within 250 years of coming in contact with European settlers. Timucua groups lived in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia, a region occupied by Native people for 13.000 years. They were among the first of the American Indians to meet with Europeans, when Spaniard Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast in 1513. Thousands of archaeological sites, village middens, and sand and shell ...
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(P/B) ANDEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
This book provides an introduction to one of the most fascinating and well-known centers of ancient civilization. - Explores the rise of civilization in the Central Andes from the time of the region's earliest inhabitants to the emergence of the Inca state many thousands of years later. - Comprised of 13 newly commissioned chapters written by leading archaeologists representing current thinking in the field. - Presents the central debates in contemporary Inca and Andean archaeology. - Progresses chronologically and culturally to reveal the...
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(P/B) EXPLORATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHNOGRAPHY
Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unco...
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(P/B) PROPERTY IN QUESTION
How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property an...
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(P/B) PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS - ART & DIVINITY IN POLYNESIA, 1760-1860
Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meaning...
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(P/B) UNSETTLED PASTS - RECONCEIVING THE WEST THROUGH WOMEN'S

(P/B) DEATH IS A FESTIVAL
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the econo...
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(H/B) THE LANGUAGES OF POLITICAL ISLAM
This book has germinated out of the S. G. Deuskar Memorial Lectures which I delivered at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, in December 1996. When invited by the Centre's Director, Professor Amiya Bagchi, to deliver those lectures, I was engaged in research concerning the nature of a putative "composite culture" in medieval India which would avoid excessive emphasis on subjects such as Sufism, which are normally treated as central to any such discussion. I had in fact, in certain earlier works, attempted to show that the r...
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(P/B) SODOMY IN REFORMATION GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND, 1400-1600
During the late Middle Ages, a considerable number of men in Germany and Switzerland were executed for committing sodomy. Even in the seventeenth century, simply speaking of the act was cause for censorship. Here, in the first history of sodomy in these countries, Helmut Puff argues that accusations of sodomy during this era were actually crucial to the success of the Protestant Reformation. Drawing on both literary and historical evidence, Puff shows that speakers of German associated sodomy with Italy and, increasingly, Catholicism. As t...
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(H/B) HOODLUMS
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes-individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have helped define the black experience. Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here, William L. Van Debur...
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HISTORY'S SHADOW
Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed ...
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THE CULTURE OF ISLAM
Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. In The Culture of Islam, he brings his erudition and his experiences to illuminating key aspects of Muslim life and how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned. Through a series of poignant tales - from the struggle by a group of friends against daily corruption to the contest over a saint's identity, ...
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THE FIGURAL JEW
The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric. Following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores the figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) INTIMATE FRONTIERS (0826319548)
This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags -those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States- Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women -whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chi...
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(P/B) UNAFFECTED BY THE GOSPEL (0826335586)
The Osage were fierce warriors who seized control of most of present-day Missouri and Arkansas hi conflicts with other tribes. Against Euro-American invaders, however, they adopted nonviolent resistance. Even though their territory steadily diminished, and the tribe was relocated to a small strip in northern Oklahoma, the tribe's cultural and religious beliefs and practices survived. Willard Hughes Rollings claims Osage nonviolent resistance was a successful strategy for cultural preservation. By avoiding war they avoided military defeat a...
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(H/B) CHEROKEE NATION: A HISTORY
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their forced migrations west, relates their participations on both sides of the Civil War and the wars of the twenti...
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(H/B) ROMAN COOKERY

(H/B) AN INSTINCT FOR WAR
Stories about war are some of the oldest stories told - used to entertain, to glorify, to lament, to educate. An Instinct for War utilizes myriad tales of war to offer a remarkable look at one of humanity's oldest plagues. Roger Spiller excavates the essence of war and its evolution through the words and thoughts of those who led - and those who were led - into battle, moving from the perspective of an ancient Chinese emperor to Napoleon's command, from a Civil War soldier's final days to the particularities of today's small wars throughou...
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(H/B) THE REAL OLIVER TWIST
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industri...
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