The Ecology of Power

Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000

By Michael J. Heckenberger

In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region,...

Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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IBSS: Anthropology: 2003 Vol.49

Edited by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic...

Published December 10th 2004 by Routledge.

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Violence and Belonging

The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

By Vigdis Broch-Due

Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always created stable...

Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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HISTORY OF GYPSY IDENTITIES

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Published November 11th 2004 by Routledge.

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Consumption and Identity

By FRIEDMAN

Published November 11th 2004 by Routledge.

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Iron Age Communities in Britain

An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest

By Barry Cunliffe

Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology. This fully revised fourth edition maintains...

Published November 11th 2004 by Routledge.

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Folklore

Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Edited by Alan Dundes

The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. It is very much tied to nationalism and...

Published October 28th 2004 by Routledge.

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Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960

Defending the Northern Tier

By Michael Cohen

The period covered by this book witnessed a significant change in Allied strategy for the Middle East. Its focus switched from Egypt to the states...

Published October 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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The True History of his Captivity 1557

Hans Staden

Edited by Malcolm Letts

'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times
'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which...

Published October 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521

By Bernal Diaz Del Castillo Edited by Genaro Garcia

First published in 1928.
'Something more than an historical document of the first importance...his narrative is so readable that one's interest and admiration are equally divided...

Published October 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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