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Potters And Communities Of Practice - Glaze Paint And Polychrome Pottery In The American Southwest, Ad 1250 To 1700

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 The contributors to this volume present results of their collaborative research into the production and distribution of these new wares, including cutting-edge chemical and petrographic analyses. They use the insights gained to reflect on the changing nature of communities of potters as they participated in the dynamic social conditions of their world.
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Writing The Love Of Boys - Origins Of Bishonen Culture In Modernist Japanese Literature

by Jeffrey Angles

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 A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.
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Gender, Law, And Resistance In India

by The University Of Arizona Press

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The Other Movement - Indian Rights And Civil Rights In The Deep South

by Denise E. Bates

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 Examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. This book looks specifically at Alabama and Louisiana, places of intensive political activity during the civil rights era and increasing Indian visibility and tribal reorganization in the decades that followed.
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Sounds Of Tohi - Cherokee Health And Well-Being In Southern Appalachia

by Lisa J. Lefler e Thomas N. Belt

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 Presents a dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues. Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa Lefler and Cherokee elder and traditionalist Thomas Belt.
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Cherokee Women In Crisis - Trail Of Tears, Civil War, And Allotment, 1838-1907

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 In this study centering on the Cherokee Nation, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries - removal, the Civil War and allotment of their lands - forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society.
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The Great Television Race - A History Of The American Television Industry, 1925-1941

by Joseph Udelson

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Roots Of Our Renewal - Ethnobotany And Cherokee Environmental Governance

by Clint Carroll

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 In "Roots of Our Renewal, " Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, Carroll shows that the
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The Monacan Indian Nation Of Virginia - The Drums Of Life

by Rosemary Clark Whitlock

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 Drawing on interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, the author offers accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened under the Virginia's Racial Integrity Law.
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From Princess To Chief - Life With The Waccamaw Siouan Indians Of North Carolina

by Patricia Barker Lerch e Priscilla Freeman Jacobs

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 A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognised Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina. It details Jacobsâ€™ birth and childhood, coming of age, education, young adulthood, marriage and family, Indian activism, and spiritual life.
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Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power - Naiche'S Puberty Ceremony Paintings

by Trudy Griffin-Pierce

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 Reveals the conflicting meanings of power held by the federal government and the Chiricahua Apaches throughout their history of interaction. This narrative is a tribute to the Chiricahua people, who survive, despite military efforts to annihilate them, government efforts to subjugate them, and social efforts to destroy their language and culture.
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Our Elders Teach Us - Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

by David Carey

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 Combining anthropology and history, David Carey uses both oral interviews and archival research to construct a history of the last 50 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. He compares the Maya-Kaqchikel's point of view with that of western scholars.
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The Ballad Of Little River - A Tale Of Race And Unrest In The Rural South

by Paul Hemphill

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 This work is a biography of one of the poorest areas in the USA - where deer outnumber people. Little River gained notoriety in 1997as the site of the US government's first conviction under a new hate-crimes law intended to stop a rash of fires set at black churches around the country.
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Source Material For The Social And Ceremonial Life Of The Choctaw Indians

by John Reed Swanton

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 The Choctaw Indians were peaceful farmers living in Mississippi and Alabama, until they were moved to Oklahoma in 1830. This guide to their ways includes descriptions of such subjects as clans, division of labour between the sexes, games, religion, war customs, and burial rites.
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Communities Of Practice - An Alaskan Native Model For Language Teaching And Learning

by Sabine Siekmann

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 This book describes an innovative project in native-language instruction that has wide applicability in second-language classrooms. Although the project it describes was developed in Alaska, the program can serve as a model throughout the world.
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Gender And Sustainability - Lessons From Asia And Latin America

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 Gender and Sustainability deals with women's struggles to contend with global forces--environmental change, economic development, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women, and diminishing access to natural resources--not in the abstract but in everyday life. It addresses the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability.
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Global Maya - Work And Ideology In Rural Guatemala

by Liliana R. Goldin

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Northern Arizona University - Buildings As History

by Lee C. Drickamer e Peter J. Runge

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Soldier-Artist Of The Great Reconnaissance - John C. Tidball And The 35th Parallel Pacific Railroad Survey

by Eugene C. Tidball

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Militarism, Ethnicity, And Politics In The Sierra Norte De Puebla, 1917-1930

by Keith Brewster

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 In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, citizens in many parts of Mexico experienced turbulent and uncertain times. This book tells the story of how the people of the Sierra Norte de Puebla emerged from those traumatic years and came to terms with the many challenges facing them in the decade that followed.
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Floods, Droughts, And Climate Change

by Michael Collier e Robert H. Webb

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 Introducing the mechanics of global weather, this book shows that floods and droughts, once considered isolated "acts of God, " are often related events driven by the same forces that shape the entire atmosphere. 25 halftones. 16 line illustrations.
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Naked Wanting

by Margo Tamez

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 Tamez--poet, farmer, mother, observer--blends precise details and powerful feelings in a lyrical collection that speaks to the intense desire for life that unites all species, and the environmental dangers that endanger that hope.
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Religion In The Modern American West

by Ferenc Morton Szasz

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Blood Mysteries

by Dixie Salazar

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