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Communication and the Human Condition
Starting with the premise that we live in communication (rather than standing outside communication and using it for secondary purposes), Pearce claims that people who live in various cultures and…
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Community Development in South Wales
Steve Clarke is a lecturer in the Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Wales Swansea. Antonina Mendola Byatt, Martin Hoban and Derith Powell are community development practitioners…
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Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians
The Yuchis, one of the more resilient peoples of the southeastern United States, were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory along with their neighbors in the 1830s. In the early 1900s,…
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Fat Boys
The fat man—a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue—is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat…
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Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those…
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How Children Become Violent
Violence is an age-old phenomenon. War, genocide, and death are cornerstones that define history. Yet in the 21st century, we are experiencing violence in ways never seen before. It may…
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Indies Under Fire
In the span of just a decade, over half of the nation’s independent bookstores vanished. This revealing documentary tells the stories of three such stores fighting for survival. In…
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Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? Revised and Updated
A classic revolutionary work on the Christian and biblical case for the full acceptance of LGBTQ community into the church by two leading pioneers and scholars. This revised and expanded…
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Islam and the Victorians
How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond? How were these perceptions propagated by historians and scholars, poets, dramatists and fiction writers of the period? For…
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Kokopelli
Kokopelli the flute player is one of the most popular icons that American culture has adopted from the Native peoples of North America. The Kokopelli name and image are everywhere,…
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Lakota Culture, World Economy
Lakota Culture, World Economy uses extensive interviews with residents of the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations to present the first in-depth look at the modern economy of the Lakotas. Workers…
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Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930
The Progressive Era, falling between the conspicuous materialism of the Gay Nineties and the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science…