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Exploring the intersections of history, memory, and community, this book reveals how we participate in the making and sustaining of community as well as how we remember the community that shaped us. It illustrates how we are active participants in the past and the role and importance of history in contemporary life.

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Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present.

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Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists.

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"The Passion of the Christ" topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. This work features scholars who ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of inter-religious dialogue in the United States.

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Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. This book attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the physical back into gerontology's study of aging.

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A study of Alaskan indigenous communities. It explores the relationship between land and education. It reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. It proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty.

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Aldous Huxley Recollected is a first hand account of the author's life with a detailed description of the methods and processes involved in oral literary history research. Fully illustrated, David Dunaway's book concentrates on the transformations in Huxley's life following his move to California.

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States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society.

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Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent years searching for the lost pilot. This book offers tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her navigator landed on an uninhabited tropical island but perished before they could be rescued.

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Presents a collection of scholarship, poetry, prose, and art - from photography and graffiti to rap and songs - that documents American Indian experiences of urban life.

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Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. Does this behavior serve as a red flag

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Anthropologists in Arms traces the troubled history of social scientists' collaboration with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and analyzes the moral and ethical debates provoked by the rise of 'military anthropology'particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Bodley trenchantly critiques the most pressing global mega-problems, such as unsustainable growth, resource depletion, global warming, and poverty and conflict, and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions.

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Lays emphasis on performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture.

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As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country, which continues on a massive scale t...

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An introduction to the study of biological, osteological, and botanical remains on archaeological sites.

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Introduction to field survey and mapping methods for archaeologists.

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Introduction to designing an archaeological project, in both academic and contract contexts.

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Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa

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Explores various methods and techniques used to prepare, protect, and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab. This book outlines the basic principles of identification, classification, quantification, data manipulation, and analysis. It draws from 16th century Spanish sites in the Americas to show the hows and whys of archaeological lab work.

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In the United States, racial status and identity has historically been defined by the White majority. This title shows that race is a major organizing principle. Using census data on Blacks, White Ethnics and Nonblack Minorities, it deconstructs majority/minority classifications to reveal the multiplicity of identities surrounding each group.

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Incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. This book demonstrates the position of Asian Pacific Americans in the US workforce. It examines personal accounts of discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, and familial relations.

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Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast to examine American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, and aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of th...

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Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.