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The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional,...
ISBN: 9780295746128
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The Kongs of Qufu
The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China
The city of Qufu, in north China’s Shandong Province, is famous as the hometown of Kong Qiu (551–479 BCE)—known as Confucius in English and as Kongzi or Kong Fuzi in Chinese. In The Kongs...
ISBN: 9780295745930
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The Shaman's Wages
Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island
Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman’s Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary...
ISBN: 9780295745954
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The Way of the Barbarians
Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China
Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural...
ISBN: 9780295746036
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At the Bridge
James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
At the Bridge chronicles the little‑known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and...
ISBN: 9780774861526
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Lookout Cave
The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains
In the mid-1960s as a young high school student, John Brumley visited Lookout Cave for the first time and knew immediately that the site was exceptional. The cave, located in north central Montana,...
ISBN: 9781771991797
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Tea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their...
ISBN: 9780295745671
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The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest...
ISBN: 9780295745695
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Working with the Ancestors
Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands
Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land use and heritage preservation. As Marquesans continue...
ISBN: 9780295745831
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The New Way
Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had...
ISBN: 9780295744308
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Marrying for a Future
Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe....
ISBN: 9780295745411
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Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact...
ISBN: 9780295743950
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Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces...
ISBN: 9780295744247
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Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional...
ISBN: 9780295744001
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Footbinding as Fashion
Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China
Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding...
ISBN: 9780295744407
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Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing...
ISBN: 9780295744216
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The Afterlife of Sai Baba
Competing Visions of a Global Saint
Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instantly recognizable to most South Asians (and many...
ISBN: 9780295744339
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Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically...
ISBN: 9780295743844
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Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity...
ISBN: 9780295743615
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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii
Life beyond Settler Colonialism
Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples...
ISBN: 9780774837590
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