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What makes the 'self'? How is it created, defined, and transformed? Arthur Asa Berger's fascinating, educational whodunit novel unravels the mysteries of cultural studies theory, and more specifically, the complexities of postmodernism and identity.

A text on the academic study of contemporary wicca and paganism throughout the world.

The foundational books of the "Torah" - "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers" and "Deutoronomy" - form the basis of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This volume seeks to keep in creative tension the realities and concerns.

Offers a political battle plan in a fight to designate a local historic district. This title covers what you need to know about the politics of organizing a grassroots campaign and what you have to do to win. It explains how and why historic districts are politically created, It is useful for anyone studying or working in local preservation.

Using archaeological work at Thotlakonda in Southern India as a lens in an examination of Buddhist monastic life, this title discovers the tension between the desired isolation of the monastery and the mutual engagement with neighbors in the Early Historic Period. It shows how archaeology can contribute to our understanding of religious practice.

Presenting a cultural ecological study of a Siberian people, the Viliui Sakha, this title describes the local and global forces of modernization that challenge their survival. It is suitable for environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development in Eurasia, and post-Soviet Russia.

Exploring Hindu nationalism from the varied perspectives of its critics in women's activist and Left intellectual circles, its ideologues, supporters, and sympathizers, this book locates Hindutva in a broader culture of critique in which identity movements of different kinds compete for recognition, representation, and rights.

Fuses the cultural critique of modern society and the inversion of gender roles with the medical analysis of neurasthenia.

A work on the etiology and treatment of neurasthenia, commonly called brain drain which provides the intersection of medical diagnoses of a serious ailment with cultural critiques of modernity.

This book provides groundbreaking analyses of the interlinking of world heritage with the increasingly complex processes of (post)nationalism, the preservation and representation of cultural diversity, tourism, and sustainable development and the conservation of authenticity.

Crossing Mountains provides important insights about integrating Native-language learning into public education. Using case studies of school districts on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, Phyllis Ngai argues that carefully designed and inclusive Native-language programs can benefit communities and students regardless of ethnic identity.

Helps in understanding the religion in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.

Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence do not typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But Harvey Whitehouse's 'modes of religiosity' theory has been attracting many scholars.

Examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment over the years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, this work analyses historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data.

Shamans of the Lost World examines the archaeological evidence of Hopewell peoples to deepen our understanding of their practice of shamanism.

In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is intended to satisfy the needs of students in undergraduate courses in the anthropology of religion and comparative religion. It may be used either as a stand-alone text or as a supplement. This is a text that is more instructor- and student-friendly than any other anthology currently available.

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Sharing Our Stories of Survival is a comprehensive treatment of the socio-legal issues that arise in the context of violence against native women-written by social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors of violence.

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

Chicanas in Charge offers profiles, in the form of oral histories, of the careers of female community and political leaders from the Chicano community in Texas.

Examines the challenges and dilemmas facing minority members who choose the route of educational leadership. This book includes a list of suggestions concerning activism, leadership style, institutional politics, mentorship, and roles to help those who contemplate a career path in the field of education.

This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San JosZ.

This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.

Focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (ethno) nation that influence the dynamics of human rights conflicts in different parts of the world. This collection of essays investigates human rights conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena- social roles, forms of activities, institutions- across cultures.

Presents an analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises. This title is suitable for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

Collection of original writings on legal aspects of cultural resources protection from practicing lawyers and judges.

Presents a theory of magical actions based on an array of findings in the cognitive sciences. This book argues that focusing on the underlying cognitive processes not only explains why magical rituals look the way they do, it also supplies insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.