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Satirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?
Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and...
ISBN: 9780295753119
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Mumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies
2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Brings...
ISBN: 9780295749860
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The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?
For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as...
ISBN: 9780295747699
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The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnúwit Átawish 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, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and...
ISBN: 9780295746128
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The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701
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...
ISBN: 9780295745695
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Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History
The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from...
ISBN: 9780295744216
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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 agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led...
ISBN: 9780295744001
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Symbolic Immortality
The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition
Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This...
ISBN: 9780295994895
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Fieldwork Connections
The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist,...
ISBN: 9780295986685
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Tulalip, From My Heart
An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community
In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her...
ISBN: 9780295995410
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In the Circle of White Stones
Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of...
ISBN: 9780295999487
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White Grizzly Bear's Legacy
Learning to Be Indian
"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened...
ISBN: 9780295992501
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B Street
The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam
B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was...
ISBN: 9780295988535
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey
The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland’s two Chinatowns (one an urban area of...
ISBN: 9780295983837
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Island
Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often...
ISBN: 9780295994079
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No More Cherry Blossoms
Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays
In these four new plays, renowned playwright Philip Kan Gotanda explores the choices and challenges Japanese American women face. Although set in different decades of the twentieth century, the playsare all absolutely modern in the...
ISBN: 9780295985015
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