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For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Sh……続きを見る

Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation. This second ……続きを見る

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Sh……続きを見る

The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues is a thought-provoking collection of essays and dialogues by Henry S. Salt, first published in 1899. This seminal work explores the ethical, philosop……続きを見る

Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation is a thought-provoking treatise by Florence E. Barrett, first published in the early 20th century, that delves into the complex so……続きを見る

Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness is a pioneering medical treatise by M.L. Holbrook, M.D., first published in the late 19th century. This comprehensive work explores the possibility ……続きを見る

Es un estudio etnolingüístico y etnobiológico que explora cómo la comunidad totonaca de Papantla (Veracruz) percibe, clasifica y conceptualiza a los animales dentro de su cosmovisión cultural. A par……続きを見る

Starting high school has been anything but smooth for Ruby. Not only has she become a social outcast for no apparent reason, but her cousin Amber has started pretending not to know her and she has n……続きを見る

Identity is not formed in isolation. It is shaped by family, memory, culture, and the conditions of everyday life. Formed Under Pressure examines Palestinian personality not through political argume……続きを見る

Aunty Ruth remembers a day out with her late mother and brothers at the cove near their home at La Perouse. Mummy gets the kids together to learn traditional fishing and abalone hunting and cooking ……続きを見る

Ancient Society (1877) proposes a unilineal sequence from Savagery to Barbarism to Civilization, keyed to pivotal inventionsーfire, pottery, agriculture, metallurgy, writingーand to linked changes i……続きを見る

Over the past two decades, Latin American politicians and activists have reckoned with their nations’ histories of racism, forced displacement of native peoples, and inequality by acknowledging Indi……続きを見る

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The twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations This Citizenship and Sovereignt……続きを見る

An inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, pa……続きを見る

What happens when a nation erases you not with violence, but with ink? 続きを見る

Cuando la ausencia se convierte en memoria viva Este libro es un testimonio profundo sobre cómo una comunidad transforma el dolor en fuerza colectiva, y el silencio en memoria activa. A través del r……続きを見る

Aboriginal peoples have deep connections with Australia’s terrestrial invertebrates, going back millennia. This book focuses on these historical and cultural relationships, describing the role of in……続きを見る

Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a ro……続きを見る

The new fourth edition of Inside Cultures: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology offers a concise and contemporary framework for exploring how humans engage with their environments, each other, a……続きを見る

No Mother, No Future investigates how theatre and performance use pregnancy loss to represent a lost future. Spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book analyzes performances that c……続きを見る

After fire scars the ridge and the world begins to circle closer, Thomas inherits more than land-he inherits responsibility. The Bear Who Walks Away continues the story begun in Ghost Father, Wild S……続きを見る

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different……続きを見る

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention. This book examines how the Baka, who li……続きを見る

Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American ‘state of nature’ operates as a foil for the European ……続きを見る

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous pers……続きを見る

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The fourth annual ALCHEMY LECTURE features award-winning fiction writers, a lauded scholar, and a prize-winning musician in an astonishing, immer……続きを見る

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siber……続きを見る

This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnogr……続きを見る

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and ur……続きを見る