著者:Gary H. Gossen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年12月02日
Telling Maya Tales offers an experimental ethnographic portrait of the San Juan Chamula, the largest and most influential Maya community of Highland Chiapas, in the late twentieth century--the era o……続きを見る
著者:Peter Hervik
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年12月02日
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the ex……続きを見る
This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing……続きを見る
If a person is unable to reason and think for himself then that person will have problem in finding and keeping a job. They will not be successful inlife until they improve their educational backgro……続きを見る
Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.
Composed in 48 ep……続きを見る
Extrait : Il n’y a rien de plus propre à rappeler les philosophes et les hommes d’État à la modestie que l’histoire de notre Révolution ; car il n’y eut jamais d’é……続きを見る
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contem……続きを見る
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America.……続きを見る
著者:David W. Messer
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2009年12月28日
Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs ……続きを見る
著者:Xiuyu Wang
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年11月28日
China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against in……続きを見る
著者:David H. DeJong
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2010年12月27日
After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) p……続きを見る
Ecotourism is often promoted as a way to visit a unique area of spectacular beauty. While tourists travel to these destinations to view environmental wonders, they seldom consider the effects of the……続きを見る
This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from th……続きを見る
著者:Max Kirsch
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月27日
This collection of essays addresses the inclusion and exclusion of peoples, populations and regions in an era of global economic and social integration. Although many publications have discussed the……続きを見る
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserveprovides an ethnographic account of a group of indigenous people li……続きを見る
Around 180 CE, in the lavish amphitheatres of the Roman Empire, trained gladiators entertained vast audiences by fighting to the death. Armed with a sword, a lance or a harpoon, the gladiator faced ……続きを見る
著者:Kathy Flake
出版社: Lavender House Publishing
発売日: 2014年03月18日
When American writer Kathy Flake moved to Britain in 2004, she had no idea she’d fall in love with this beautiful island in the North Atlantic. The relationship proved rocky right from the startー L……続きを見る
Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of ‘In the Heart of the Sea’, reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers’ settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fift……続きを見る
著者:John L. Steckley
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2014年03月25日
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth centuryーthe otherwise named Petun and Huronーand their history is fragmented by their disp……続きを見る
著者:David M. Hart
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年05月12日
An anthropological study of Berber society and particularly the Rifian tribes of Morocoo, a Muslim society. This book deals with the background of these tribes, their settlement in various areas and……続きを見る
As the world continues to shrink owing to globalization, the need to understand the diversity of culturally distinct societies and their interactions with neighboring groups becomes greater than eve……続きを見る
著者:Charles Garrad
出版社: Canadian Museum of History
発売日: 2014年05月15日
In Petun to Wyandot, Charles Garrad draws upon five decades of research to tell the turbulent history of the Wyandot tribe, the First Nation once known as the Petun. Combining and reconciling primar……続きを見る
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2014年05月16日
Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this v……続きを見る
In his sensitive portrayal of the Raramuri (or Tarahumara) Indians, Merrill examines the ways in which a society, lacking formal educational institutions, produces and transmits its basic knowledge ……続きを見る
著者:Margaret Jolly
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年06月11日
Women of the Place is a study of gender relations in the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. It considers kastom in these communities not as an eternal tradition, but rather as a way of ……続きを見る
Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he work……続きを見る
Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada, is a collection of chapters written by librarians of color in Canada writing about their experiences working in libraries. Thi……続きを見る
Just Enough travels inside the conflict zone of Thailand’s southernmost provinces and gets under the surface of traditional Malay Muslim culture. Mira Lee Manickam, an adventurous American researche……続きを見る