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Habitat, economy and society;: A geographical introduction to ethnology, (Dutton paperback)

Cyril Daryll Forde

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An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world. International in its scope the book covers: Malaysia, Africa, North America, Canada, Siberia, the Amazon, Eastern Solomon Islands, India, Central Asia and the Middle East. Originally published in 1934. This re-issues the seventh edition of 1949.

The Hunting Peoples

Carlton S. Coon

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Living Underground: A History of Cave and Cliff Dwelling

D. R. C. Kempe

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This is the first comprehensive survey of troglodytes and other cave dwellers throughout the world from Neanderthal Man to the present day. Mr. Kempe, of the British Museum of Natural History, examines why people have chosen to live in caves or natural shelters, the nature of life and the distinctive characteristics of the dwellings, and skillfully weaves these strands into a fascinating history of man's underground life.

Bushmen Of Southern Africa: Foraging Society In Transition

Andrew Smith

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Southern African archaeology comes alive 5 out of 5 stars.
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All too often the Bushmen (otherwise known as the San) have been portrayed in school textbooks and in the minds of the general public as "living fossils" whose ways of life have remained the same throughout the ages. Associate-Professor Smith et al. demolish the myth and present a vivid picture of Bushmen social and economic dynamics down through the ages, as well as the interaction with incoming cultural groupings and the effects thereof. Anyone who is interested in the remarkable history, both past and contemporary, of the Bushmen will find this book an invaluable addition to their library.

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This work introduces the long history and current condition of the hunting people of southern Africa. It attempts to place the modern San in historical context and show how they have continually adapted to outside pressures.

The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia

Bronislaw Malinowski

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Be kind to reprints! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This edition of this book is not-so-hot, largely due to the quality of the photo reproductions. I have access to the first editions of Malinowski, and no later editions are of the same quality in ANY respect, including the Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

I URGE readers to be considerate and exercise caution and thoughtfulness when giving bad ratings to books or anything else--especially if there's only one version available--because of quality issues that should really be directed at the publisher. A warning about photo quality is great and helpful to a degree, but a cumulative one star (about to be corrected a bit with my five) may prevent an individual or library from making a purchase and that may, in turn, eventually drive a valuable book off the "store" shelves.

If photo quality is poor in a reprint, it more than likely is due to the degradation or disappearance of the original prints and negatives. A book can also be in the public domain and the originals may not be made available to a re-printer so they'll scan an older copy. Plenty of good reasons that, in themselves, don't deserve one star either.

This is an important book that is cited nowadays more often than read--there's this idea floating around that older anthropologists somehow can't have anything valid to say today. Malinowski worked with degrees of detail that seem to elude modern anthropologists and he also studied people who had not yet been overwhelmed with Western culture (a simple statement of fact, not a value judgement). His writing is exciting to read, like a good adventure story, as he's bringing to light a lot of fascinating information in a way that subtly coves the excitement of discovery. His attitude to the cultures he studied is respectful and often admiring.

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1929. An ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. From the Preface: The sexual life of savages has long awaited its natural historian. Owing to sex taboos, that weigh at least as much on the civilized as on the savage mind, this subject has always been veiled in mystery. The mystery has been fascinating or somber according to the general attitude to savagery that happened to prevail. Contents: The Relations Between the Sexes in Tribal Life; The Status of Woman in Native Society; Prenuptial Intercourse; The Avenues to Marriage; Marriage; Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage by Death; Procreation and Pregnancy in Native Belief and Custom; Pregnancy and Childbirth; Customary Forms of License; Love-Making and the Psychology of Erotic Life; The Magic of Love and Beauty; Erotic Dreams and Fantasies; Morals and Manners; and A Savage Myth of Incest.

Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama

Kenneth Good

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A TRUE ADVENTURE 5 out of 5 stars.
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EAGERLY DEVOURING EACH LEAF OF LITERATURE IN KENNETH GOOD'S INTO THE HEART, READERS ARE CATAPULTED INTO MYSTICAL, UNSEEN EXPANSES WITHIN THE VAST AMAZON RAIN FOREST. WE READERS VIRTUALLY BECOME AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S TRAVEL COMPANIONS AS GOOD EXPLORES A LAND BLANKETED WITH A PEOPLE KNOWN AS THE YANOMAMI. CIVILIZATION IS RARE IN SUCH VIRGIN TERRAIN, NEIGHBORING THE PIRANHA-INFESTED ORINOCO RIVER. YET, INTO THE HEART, PUMPING WITH THE LIFE-BLOOD OF SURVIVAL, EXPOSES HOW ONE PRIMITIVE CULTURE SUBSISTS WITHOUT A SPARK OF TECHNOLOGY OR MODERN CONVENIENCE. RAYS OF INSIGHT EMANATE CROSS-CULTURAL AWARENESS AS WE REALIZE THAT A DISTANT VENEZUELAN COMMUNITY SHARES CERTAIN QUALITIES THAT INTERCONNECT ALL HUMAN BEINGS, HOLISTICALLY. INSTITUTIONS, SUCH AS MARRIAGE, AND KINSHIP RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE YANOMAMI EXEMPLIFY CROSS-CULTURAL SIMILARITIES. OTHER UNIQUE ASPECTS DIVERGE FROM THIS INTEGRATED OUTLOOK, HOWEVER. IMAGINE SPORTING ONLY A MERE LOINCLOTH OR DRINKING A POTION, ITS KEY INGREDIENTS BEING YOUR LATE GRANDFATHER'S ASHES. tHOUGH CULTURE-SHOCKED INITIALLY, THE HEIGHTENED COGNIZANCE WE HAVE ACHIEVED THROUGH THIS EXOTIC TRUDGE THROUGH THE AMAZON OVERSHADOWS ANY HARDSHIPS WE HAVE ENDURED. GOOD'S JOURNEY INTO THE HEART HAS FOREVER IMPACTED MY LIFE. WE DEPART FROM THIS MEMORABLE EXCURSION WITH OUR DWELLINGS CARPETED BY GIGANTIC ANTS, OUR TOES NIBBLED BY RAVENOUS VAMPIRE BATS, AND OUR BODIES STRICKEN WITH STRAINS OF MALARIA. AS PASSENGERS ON THIS UNFORGETTABLE VOYAGE, WE READERS HAVE ABSORBED A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK. FOR MORE THAN A DECADE WE HAVE WATCHED AN ANTHROPOLOGIST FULLY EXAMINE A CULTURE DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN. THROUGH KENNETH GOOD, MANKIND ACROSS THE WORLD HAS BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE YANOMAMI, A REMARKABLE PEOPLE WHO BOLDLY LEAD US INTO THE HEART OF HUMANITY.

The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest (Nonpareil Book, #45.)

John Nance

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The Tigers of Baluchistan

Sylvia A. Matheson

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Incredible. 5 out of 5 stars.
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A young, English woman, just out of British military service in World War II, marries an oil executive and moves to Baluchistan (Pakistan) where she takes up archeaology and lives among fierce Baluchi tribesmen for five years. Basically, a "Gertrude Bell meets Indiana Jones" story. This book begs to be made into a movie. You might not believe some of the things you will read.

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A fascinating and vivid eyewitness account of how the Bugtis - one of the most primitive tribes of south-west Asia - are meeting the problems of sudden confrontation with twentieth century industrialization.

Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela

Pei-Lin Yu

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A young student of anthropology receives an offer she can't refuse: the chance to live among the Pum�, a South American hunting-and-gathering people who call the tropical Venezuelan savannah home. During their time in the village of Doro An�, the author and the principal researcher study a vanishing way of life in which cash money, the written word, automobiles, and airplanes are rare and frightening intrusions.

Adopted into a Pum� family, Yu's informal and personal accounts of events during her two year stay sparkle with descriptive flourishes and turns of phrase as she describes the daily cycles of birth, growth, romance, sickness, healing, and death among the villagers. Enlivened with the author's own illustrations, Yu's journal entries seek to present through a young American's eyes a sketch of her Pum� family, their heroic struggle to survive in a changing world, and the power and mystery of the Pum� way of life.

"In Hungry Lightning we glimpse haunting fragments of life among the Pum� Indians. We find an intimate, deeply feminine�but ever-so-slightly jaded and strangely melancholic�voice savoring the tastes and smells of life lived in the Venezuelan savanna. A complexly sensual portrait."--Barbara Tedlock

Cultures Of Secrecy: Reinventing Race In Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (New Directions in Anthro Writing)

Andrew Lattas

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After driving the Japanese out of Papua New Guinea during World War II, the U.S. military left their gear -- and the makings of a cargo cult -- to the native Kaliai. Cultures of Secrecy offers a close look at how, for fifty years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked these tailings of the western world into their indigenous culture. Andrew Lattas shows how cargo cults in general bring together past, present, and future in their curious blending of traditional myths, imported folklore, borrowed state practices and ideologies, and reworked Christian stories. The result is a richly interdisciplinary work that uses ethnography to explore questions of racial experience, gender relations, space, time, death, and the politics of human relations.