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Springer A Continuing Trial of Treatment Medical Pluralism In Papua New Guinea 14 Culture Illness and Healing
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Springer Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics 16 Culture Illness and Healing
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Springer Anthropology and Aging
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Springer The Aymara Strategies in Human Adaptation to a Rigorous Environment 2 Studies in Human Biology
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Springer Tradition and Individuality Essays 221 Synthese Library
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Springer Metaarchaeology
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Springer CrossNational Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop Freudenstadt July 1926 1992 76 Nato Science Series D
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Springer The Radical Choice and Moral Theory
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Springer Extreme Stress and Communities Impact and Intervention 80 Nato Science Series D
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Springer Everyday Conceptions of Emotion An Introduction to the Psychology Anthropology and Linguistics of Emotion 81 Nato Science Series D
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Springer The Search for Fundamentals The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning
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Springer Population and Development A Message from The Cairo Conference 3 European Studies of Population
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Springer Passion for Place Book II
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Springer Feminism Science and the Philosophy of Science 256 Synthese Library
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Springer Feminism Science and the Philosophy of Science 256 Synthese Library
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Springer The European Family The Family Question in the European Community
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Springer Human Activities and the Tropical Rainforest Past Present and Possible Future 44 GeoJournal Library
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Springer Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa 18 Environment Policy
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Springer Coercive and Discursive Compliance Mechanisms in the Management of Natural Resources
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Springer Everyday Thoughts about Nature A Worldview Investigation of Important Concepts Students Use to Make Sense of Nature with Specific Attention of Trends and Issues in Science Education
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Springer Everyday Thoughts about Nature A Worldview Investigation of Important Concepts Students Use to Make Sense of Nature with Specific Attention to Trends and Issues in Science Education
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Springer Inscribed Bodies Health Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans
Book SynopsisAs lacrosse continues to evolve, this collection will help us remember and understand its rich and complex history.Trade ReviewA strong contribution to Native American studies, sports history, and folklore. Recommended. Choice 2008 As this book amply demonstrates, lacrosse has an impressive history and a vibrant contemporary culture. -- Alan Bairner Journal of Sports Sciences 2008 It is to Vennum's credit that he has brought these legends to a wider audience and demonstrated the relevance of what might seem at first glance unpromising territory for sport scientists. -- Alan Bairner Journal of Sports Sciences 2008Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Animals as Star PlayersThe Great Game in Which the Birds Defeat the QuadrupedsA Dog's Power Beats the Old Chief2. Game Equipment from the Upper WorldThe Pale MoonPlaying with an Evil HeadThe First Lacrosse Ball3. Wagers and WarriorsPlaying for HeadsWakayabide Is Killed Playing Lacrosse and Later Takes RevengeThe Warriors of the Ho-Chunk Nation Struggle on Home Turf4. Tricksters and Culture HeroesHe Who Wears Human Heads for Earrings Defeats the GiantsManabus Is Dogged by WavesWhy the Turkey Buzzard Has a Red Scabby Neck5. Trees to Stop the ActionSnakes around the NeckAn Unusual Penalty BoxConclusionAppendix: Ethnographic IndexBibliographic NoteIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Popol Vuh
Book SynopsisThe first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh is the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.
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John Wiley & Sons The Apaches
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the history and activities of the Apache Indians, as well as the tortuous course of events that led to the tribe's subjugation. The author examines a racial and cultural struggle in which the duplicity of white government officials proved to be a decisive factor.
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John Wiley & Sons Mission Among the Blackfeet
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John Wiley & Sons Tobacco Use by Native North Americans Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer
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Penguin Random House LLC The Sacred Hoop Recovering The Feminine In American Indian Traditions
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth
Book SynopsisTooth modification has been practiced throughout many time periods and places to convey information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This volume represents the wide spectrum of intentional dental modification in humans across the globe over the past 16,000 years.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Bioarchaeology of PreColumbian Mesoamerica
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance Contexts for a Brave New World
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Archaeologies of Listening
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Archaeology of HumanEnvironmental Dynamics on the North American Atlantic Coast
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso Culture and History in the Upper Amazon
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to Rucuyaya Alonso, an elderly Quichua Indian of the Upper Ecuadorean Amazon. Alonso is a hunter, but like most Quichuas, he has done other work as well, bearing loads, panning gold, tapping rubber trees, and working for Shell Oil. He tells of his work, his hunting, his marriage, his fights, his fears, and his dreams.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest Travelers 2. Ethnicity, Language, Culture 3. Family and Youth 4. The Forest and the River 5. The State, Missionaries, and Native Consciousness, 1767-1896 6. Christianity and the Missions 7. Liberalism and Rubber: The Early Twentieth Century in the Oriente 8. The Days of the Varas, the Apu, and the Patrons 9. The Company and the Auca 10. Gold, Oil, and Cattle: The Twentieth Century in Tena-Archidona 11. My Friends the Yachaj 12. Dreams and Death Reflections 14. The Cultural Bases of Resistance Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Glossary References Index
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Rutgers University Press Obesity Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives Studies in Medical Anthropology
Book SynopsisIn a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problemTrade Review"Around the globe, there are more overweight than underweight people, and trends indicate that obesity is reaching epidemic toward pandemic proportions. Drawing on extensive original research, integrating previous scholarship, and using a bio-cultural perspective, Brewis offers a wide-ranging exploration of obesity as a contemporary public health and social issue. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Brewis provides a much-needed and insightful analysis of the current obesity 'epidemic' and the role that culture plays in the causes and consequences of having a fat body. Brewis provides a great resource for teaching about a seemingly intractable issue in public health nutrition." -- Andrea Wiley * Indiana University, Bloomington *"This book provides the reader with a unique opportunity to examine obesity through cultural lenses." * Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences *"Obesity is well written in a clear and jargon-free style. Brewis's expertise in this are shines through and I learned many new things about something I have been studying closely for over a decade." -- John Speakman * American Journal of Human Biology *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: The Problem of Obesity2 Defining Obesioty3 Obesity and Human Adaptation4 The Distribution of Risk5 Culture and Body Ideals6 Big-Body Symbolism, Meanings, and Norms7 Conclusion: The Big PictureAppendix A: Global Rates of Overweight and ObesityAppendix B: Body Mass Index TablesAppendix C: Tools for the Comparative Study of Body ImageAppendix D: Using Cultural Consensus Alaysis to Understand Obesity Norms ReferencesIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Margins and Marginality Printed Page in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisBy tracing the connections between marginal apparatus, authority, and authorship, Tribble suggests that changes in book production had consequences for the changing relations among readers, writers, and cultural authority in the early modern period.
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Wayne State University Press Ojibwa Narratives Of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique 189395 Great Lakes Books Of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques 18931895 Great Lakes Books Paperback
Book SynopsisThese 52 narratives feature the tales of three 19th-century Ojibwa storytellers - Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique. Collected by Homer H. Kidder, the stories present a fresh view of an early period of Ojibwa thought and way of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Wayne State University Press A Global Community The Jews from Aleppo Syria Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore Anthropology Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Book SynopsisAn interpretation of the historical experience of the Jewish community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated. It points to the social, economic and cultural links that the communities have made for the persistence of community throughout the diaspora.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The essays look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture and of religious and educational foundations.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Looking for De Soto A Search Through the South for the Spaniards Trail
Book SynopsisLooking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.Trade ReviewHudson, calling herself a 'knowledgeable layman,' accompanied her anthropologist husband, Charles, on a six-week trip in 1984 to locate Hernando De Soto's route through the United States in 1540. This book is Hudson's daily journal of their travels: how they worked out De Soto's route using four contemporary yet conflicting chronicles and current archaeological research. Until more aboriginal sites are excavated, the exact De Soto trail remains hypothesis; theirs is a more credible route than John R. Swanton's Final Report of the U.S. De Soto Expedition Commission. The book was published as Hudson wrote it; updated segments of the route appear only in the epilog. This is a fine, nontechnical snapshot of an investigation-in-progress.|A warmly humane travel story about rural and small-town life from Florida to Texas. Descriptions of the region's ever changing terrain, vegetation, and climate fill the book, along with troubled musings about Americans' increasing disconnection from the land and lack of reverence for the past. Conveying the rewards and frustrations of lives spent in painstaking scholarly inquiry, Looking for De Soto also offers a firsthand glimpse into the daily work of anthropologists and archaeologists: the exchanges of ideas, the ventures through swamps and down deeply rutted farm roads, the endless poring over maps, charts, and notes. As if writing a detective story, Hudson suspensefully paces the narrative with the accrual of geographical, artifactual, and documentary evidence, punctuating it with false leads and other setbacks as mile after mile of the trail is redrawn.
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Vanderbilt University Press Love and Globalization
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Vanderbilt University Press Love and Globalization Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World
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Vanderbilt University Press Bodies of Knowledge
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Vanderbilt University Press Bodies of Knowledge
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Vanderbilt University Press Higglers in Kingston
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers International Folkloristics
Book SynopsisInternational folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.Trade ReviewAlan Dundes, one of the world's leading folklorists, extracts the ground-breaking work of scholars from folklore's earliest days. This collection is recommended. * Nothern Earth *Alan Dundes’ superb source book provides material evidence for the long standing and deeply committed scholarly interest in the vernacular expressions commonly referred to as folklore. The often unusual selections range from letters to seminal early articles by scholars in philology, literature, music and psychology—all of whom shared a commitment to folk expressions. The work is of immediate relevance to students of folklore and will serve as a wonderful teaching tool. Anthropologists, historians of science, and scholars within the cultural studies field in general will be equally interested in this work as it offers an instructive view of disciplinary emergence. Dundes’ headnotes to each selection are a tour de force coupling individual biographies and disciplinary history. -- Regina Bendix, University of PennsylvaniaIn this brilliant volume Alan Dundes . . . has taken stock of folkloristic scholarship . . . . Most choices are undisputed, some may be surprising, others are true discoveries and revelations; but in each case Dundes offers deep insights into the workings of folklore and folkloristics and at the same time contributes to 19th and 20th century European and North American intellectual history in the best sense. The volume convincingly portrays and extends folkloristics and will certainly become one of its standard books. -- Klaus Roth, Munich UniversityWhen the discipline of folklore was achieving its first maturity in the United States, Alan Dundes edited an anthology that gave the profession momentum and purposes. Now in its moment of midlife crisis, Alan Dundes again provides order and direction for the folklorists’ craft. His new anthology, a collection of key texts, brilliantly introduced, will become the basic historical textbook for the folklorist. It is a generous gift, a welcome and necessary foundation for thought and action. -- Henry Glassie, College Professor of Folklore, Indiana UniversityDundes provides an outstanding source book that highlights major thoeries, methods and concepts in the history of folklore, founded upon as he writes 'filedwork in the library'. The twenty chapters highlight work and personae of the most important folklorists. -- Herman Tak, Universiteit Utrecht * Focaal No.35, 2000 *Alan Dundes highlights major theories, methods, and concepts in the history of folklore. These essays, some recovered treasures making their first appearance in English, others already established classics, are intellectual milestones in a disciplinary attempt to put some of the central ideas that shaped our history in the past two hundred years to a scientific and systematic test. Dundes' biographical, bibliographical, and theoretical introductory comments make this anthology an essential text in any introductory course in folklore and more specifically in a course on the history of folklore studies. -- Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania; editor of Folktales of the JewsAlan Dundes has edited an important book, which will solidly confirm the significance of international folkloristics as an independent, worldwide, scholarly academic discipline. Alan Dundes's collection is a delight in its variety and yet is well held together by the erudition and skilled commentaries of the editor. It is an excellent introduction to folklore and folkloristics and their history. It is truly a work of international folkloristics. * The Folklore Society *International Folkloristics belongs on every folklorist's shelf and every M.A. reading list. * Missouri Folklore Society Journal *Dundes's anthology is a great reference source, especially for folklorists in countries such as Vietnam. This anthology is also a good source for people who intend to write books on international folklore in their own languages. Anyone planning such a project will find suggestions for further reading in the history of folkloristics at the end of Dundes's book. A book that can be used as a practical reference for the teaching and studying of theories, fields, and genres of folklore. * Asian Folklore Studies *A number of the pieces in this volume are by authors better known for the books—-or volumes of books—-they published, such as James Frazer. In addition, the international scope of folklore studies is highlighted with selections by such European heavy-weights as Guiseppe Pitre, one of the most prolific scholars in the field. This makes the volume a one-stop destination for an easily digestible overview of a number of the big figures and big ideas in folklore studies into the 1960s—and, conveniently enough, the work is all in English. Prefacing each piece in the volume is an intensive introduction with accompanying suggested further readings. The editor's introductions provide ample contextualization for each piece, while the suggested readings offer a springboard for more in-depth consideration. The introductions accomplish three things: they provide a brief biography and historical background of the scholar; present the historical and current significance of the scholar's ideas; and provide related bibliographical references, past and present. The introductions in conjunction with the selections provide a richly condensed overview of the forces that led to the formation and solidification of the field of folklore studies: a complex amalgamation of intellectual insights,dedicated fieldwork, personality traits, and historical circumstances. * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Circular Concerning the Collecting of Folk Poetry Chapter 2 Folk-Lore and the Origin of the Word Chapter 3 Request Chapter 4 An Angel Flew Through the Room Chapter 5 The Study of Folk-Lore Chapter 6 The Method of Julius Krohn Chapter 7 The Message of the Folk-Lorist Chapter 8 On the Need for a Bibliography of Folklore Chapter 9 A Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva Chapter 10 In Search of Folktales and Songs Chapter 11 Epic Laws of Folk Narrative Chapter 12 The Rites of Passage Chapter 13 The Principles of Sympathetic Magic Chapter 14 The Structure of Russian Fairy Tales Chapter 15 Observations on Folklore Chapter 16 Geography and Folk-Tale Oicotypes Chapter 17 Irish Tales and Story-Tellers Chapter 18 Symbolism in Dreams Chapter 19 Wedding Ceremonies in European Folklore Chapter 20 Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study Chapter 21 Suggestions for Further Reading in the History of Folkloristics.
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Identity Community Culture and Difference
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities.Table of ContentsA place called home - identity and the cultural politics of difference, Jonathan Rutherford; feminism - dead or alive?, Andrea Stuart; welcome to the jungle - identity and diversity in postmodern politics, Kobena Mercer; confinement, Frances Angela; the value of difference, Jeffrey Weeks; black feminism - the politics of articulation, Pratibha Parmar; live for Sharam and die for Izzat, Zarina Bhimji; practices of freedom - "citizenship" and the politics of identity in the age of AIDS, Simon Watney; a nasty piece of work - psychoanalytic study of sexual and racial difference in "Mona Lisa", Lola Young; the third space - interview with Homi Bhabha; cultural identity and diaspora, Stuart Hall.
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Inventing Western Civilization Cornerstone Books
Book SynopsisA discussion of the idea of civilization and how, at different times, the concept has been used by the powerful in order to defend their status. It examines how civilization has been closely tied to the rise of capitalism in Western Europe and the development of social classes.Table of ContentsInventing civilization; civilization and its boosters; civilization and its critics; inventing barbarians and other uncivilized peoples; uncivilized peoples speak.
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