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Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America: A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South America
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written by Dwight B. Heath (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2002, originally published 1965), 540 page(s)
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Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
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edited by Lawrence J. Taylor, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, originally published 1995), 301 page(s)
edited by Lawrence J. Taylor, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, originally published 1995), 301 page(s)
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Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
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written by Kirin Narayan, 1959-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 299 page(s)
written by Kirin Narayan, 1959-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 299 page(s)
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Disappearing World, War of the Gods
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directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by Brian Moser, fl. 1960, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971), 1 hour 7 mins
While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the M...
directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by Brian Moser, fl. 1960, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971), 1 hour 7 mins
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Disappearing World, Umbanda
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directed by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977; produced by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1977), 53 mins
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, Umbanda flourishes in the heterogeneous culture of contemporary urban Brazil. The film somewhat ambitiously seeks to give...
directed by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977; produced by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1977), 53 mins
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Feast: Why Humans Share Food
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written by Martin Jones, 1940- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 379 page(s)
The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evid...
written by Martin Jones, 1940- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 379 page(s)
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The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization
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written by Alice Beck Kehoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2006, originally published 2006), 212 page(s)
written by Alice Beck Kehoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2006, originally published 2006), 212 page(s)
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Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands
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written by Jackie Sillito and Paul Sillitoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2009, originally published 2009), 212 page(s)
written by Jackie Sillito and Paul Sillitoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2009, originally published 2009), 212 page(s)
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Himalaya, a Path to the Sky
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directed by Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008; produced by Manuel Catteau, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2008), 53 mins
Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Buddhist monk and lives in the Phukthal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan mountains of Zanskar. Kenrap chose his life away from his family: when he was five, he remembered he was the reincarnation of a 68 year-old monk, and then decided to return to the monastery where he b...
directed by Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008; produced by Manuel Catteau, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2008), 53 mins
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Holy Hustlers
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directed by Richard Werbner, 1937- (Manchester, England: International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, 2009), 53 mins
Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana's capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations divide Eloyi's village-based archbishop and his son, the city-based bishop. The church itself, seen to be 'under...
directed by Richard Werbner, 1937- (Manchester, England: International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, 2009), 53 mins
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