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Congo's Dancers: cover depicting two photographs of the same woman posed in different ways, the images cropped so that the viewer never sees her complete form. The cover is tinted blue and green, with another set of photos faintly super-imposed over the original photos, further muddling the images.
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Congo's Dancers
Women and Work in Kinshasa
Lesley Nicole Braun
Fall 2022

Shaping Tradition: Cover showing a green background with a red circle on the left side that contains the title text. A photo rests along the bottom of the page that shows an Agwagune cultural gathering.
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Shaping Tradition
Women's Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune
David Uru Iyam
Fall 2021

Eliciting Care: Two nurses in light blue uniforms each care for a row of patients in hospital beds made up with pink sheets.
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Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020

Health in a Fragile State: Cover showing a set of hands under a faucet.
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Health in a Fragile State
Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
John M. Janzen
Spring 2021 (paperback)

African Science: Cover art of a blue gray background with a soft white spiral made out of distinct, curved, rectangular segments emerging from the center of the page. Four African men stand throughout the bottom half of the spiral, facing different directions, all with one hand raised upwards. They all are wearing white, long robes. The title text is written in a striking orange, contrasting from the subdued tones of the rest of the cover, and is placed within the spiral, as if it were one of the segments that create it.
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African Science
Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin
Douglas J. Falen
Spring 2020 (paperback)

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Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan
Benjamin Gatling
Spring 2018

The Paradox of Authenticity: cover depicting three people in traditional slovakian dress sitting on a staircase, the title text floating above the railing.
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The Paradox of Authenticity
Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia
Joseph Grim Feinberg
Spring 2018

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Packy Jim
Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border
Ray Cashman
Fall 2017

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Black Fox
A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer
Barbara Sjoholm
Fall 2017

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Truth's Fool
Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology
Peter Hempenstall
Fall 2017

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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L. Rosebrough
Fall 2017

Spirit Children: Cover showing a black woman with a black child resting his head against her shoulder. Above them, the title text is written in red and green font, sitting inside a tan block.
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Spirit Children
Illness, Poverty, and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Aaron R. Denham
Spring 2019 (paperback)

Of Beggars and Buddhas: Cover showing a drawing of a man pointing a bow and arrow at an older man in a tree. Three dogs bark at the older man at the base of the tree. The rest of the image is filled with trees and bushes.
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Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
Fall 2019 (paperback)

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Living Black
Social Life in an African American Neighborhood
Mark S. Fleisher
Fall 2015

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Ukrainian Otherlands
Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Spring 2015 (paperback)

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Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives
Edited by Jan Bender Shetler
Spring 2015 (paperback)

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Improvised Adolescence
Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America
Sandra Grady
Spring 2015

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Early African Entertainments Abroad
From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians
Bernth Lindfors
Fall 2014

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Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

City of Neighborhoods
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City of Neighborhoods
Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Spring 2016

Dreams of a Hmong Kingdom
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Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Mai Na M. Lee
Spring 2015

Improvised Adolescence
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Improvised Adolescence
Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America
Sandra Grady
Spring 2015

Archiving the Unspeakable
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Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
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Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
Leadership, Representation, and Social Change
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2013

Innocence and Victimhood
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Innocence and Victimhood
Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms
Fall 2013

The Government of Mistrust
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The Government of Mistrust
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Ken MacLean
Fall 2013

The Tamburitza Tradition
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The Tamburitza Tradition
From the Balkans to the American Midwest
Richard March
Fall 2013

Whispering Truth to Power
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Whispering Truth to Power
Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda
Susan Thomson
Fall 2013

With the Lapps in the High Mountains
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With the Lapps in the High Mountains
A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908
Emilie Demant Hatt, Edited and translated by Barbara Sjoholm
Spring 2013

Goodbye, Brazil
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Goodbye, Brazil
Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba
Maxine L. Margolis
Spring 2013

How Difficult It Is to Be God
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How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012

The Worlds of Russian Village Women
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The Worlds of Russian Village Women
Tradition, Transgression, Compromise
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva
Fall 2012

Genocide Lives in Us
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Genocide Lives in Us
Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda
Jennie E. Burnet
Spring 2012

Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
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Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Maxine Clarke
Spring 2012

Thailand’s Political Peasants
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Thailand’s Political Peasants
Power in the Modern Rural Economy
Andrew Walker
Spring 2012

Defeat Is the Only Bad News
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Defeat Is the Only Bad News
Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931
Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, Edited by David Newbury
Spring 2011

Revolution Interrupted
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Revolution Interrupted
Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2011

The Floracrats
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The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010

Glimpses into My Own Black Box
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Glimpses into My Own Black Box
An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 2010

Beyond Displacement
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Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010

Being Colonized
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Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010

Spirits of Earth
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Spirits of Earth
The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
Robert A. Birmingham
Fall 2009

Naming Colonialism
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Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960
Osumaka Likaka
Fall 2009

Dance and the Nation
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Dance and the Nation
Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
Susan A. Reed
Fall 2009

Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917–1991
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Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917–1991
Karen L. Ryan
Fall 2009

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead
Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
Paul Shankman
Fall 2009

The Social World of Batavia
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The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia
Jean Gelman Taylor
Spring 2009

Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
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Spirit, Structure, and Flesh
Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria
Deidre Helen Crumbley
Fall 2008

An Anarchy of Families
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An Anarchy of Families
State and Family in the Philippines
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2008

Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
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Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001
Jeremy Wallach
Fall 2008

Anthropology Goes to War
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Anthropology Goes to War
Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand
Eric Wakin
Spring 2008

Embodying Honor
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Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Fall 2007

Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion
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Òrìṣà Devotion as World Religion
The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture
Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey
Fall 2007

Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character
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Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland
William H. A. Williams
Fall 2007

Outlawed Pigs
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Outlawed Pigs
Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel
Daphne Barak-Erez
Spring 2007

Meaning in Suffering
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Meaning in Suffering
Caring Practices in the Health Professions
Edited by Nancy E. Johnston and Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish
Spring 2007

Remembering the Year of the French
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Remembering the Year of the French
Irish Folk History and Social Memory
Guy Beiner
Fall 2006

Dancing from Past to Present
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Dancing from Past to Present
Nation, Culture, Identities
Edited by Theresa Jill Buckland
Fall 2006

Central Sites, Peripheral Visions
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Central Sites, Peripheral Visions
Cultural and Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
Fall 2006

Gossip, Markets, and Gender
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Gossip, Markets, and Gender
How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro
Tuulikki Pietilä
Fall 2006

Women in Print
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Women in Print
Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand
Spring 2006

Listening to the Whispers
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Listening to the Whispers
Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare
Edited by Christine Sorrell Dinkins and Jeanne Merkle Sorrell
Spring 2006

Engaging Modernity
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Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2005

Kaiso!
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Kaiso!
Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson
Fall 2005

Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives
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Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives
Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson
2005

In the Land of Orpheus
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In the Land of Orpheus
Rural Livelihoods and Nature Conservation in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Barbara A. Cellarius
Fall 2004

Tired of Weeping
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Tired of Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Jónína Einarsdóttir
Fall 2004

Immortal River
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Immortal River
The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
Calvin R. Fremling
Fall 2004

Population and History
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Population and History
The Demographic Origins of the Modern Philippines
Edited by Daniel F. Doeppers and Peter Xenos
Spring 2004

Spectral America
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Spectral America
Phantoms and the National Imagination
Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Spring 2004

Popular Witchcraft
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Popular Witchcraft
Straight from the Witch’s Mouth
Jack Fritscher
2004

Significant Others
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Significant Others
Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
Fall 2003

Wild Man
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Wild Man
Tobias Schneebaum, New foreword by David Bergman
Fall 2003

Yugoslavism
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Yugoslavism
Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992
Edited by Dejan Djokic
Spring 2003

Iran
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Iran
From Religious Dispute to Revolution
Michael M. J. Fischer
Spring 2003

The Poem in the Story
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The Poem in the Story
Music, Poetry, and Narrative
Harold Scheub
Fall 2002

We Alone Will Rule
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We Alone Will Rule
Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency
Sinclair Thomson
Fall 2002

Bike Lust
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Bike Lust
Harleys, Women, and American Society
Barbara Joans
Fall 2001

Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America
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Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America
Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Hans A. Baer
Spring 2001

The Lunda-Ndembu
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The Lunda-Ndembu
Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa
James A. Pritchett
Spring 2001

Celibacy, Culture, and Society
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Celibacy, Culture, and Society
The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence
Edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell
Spring 2001

The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France
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The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France
Natalie Zemon Davis
Fall 2000

Fieldwork Dilemmas
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Fieldwork Dilemmas
Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
Edited by Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick
Fall 2000

Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Power in Africa
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Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Power in Africa
Edited by Heike Behrend and Ute Luig
Fall 1999

Patients and Doctors
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Patients and Doctors
Life-Changing Stories from Primary Care
Edited by Jeffrey M. Borkan, Shmuel Reis, Jack H. Medalie, and Dov Steinmetz
Fall 1999

Grassroots Theater
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Grassroots Theater
A Search for Regional Arts in America
Robert Gard, With a Foreword by David H. Stevens and a new Introduction by Maryo Gard Ewell
Fall 1999

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions
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Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions
Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
Fall 1999

Women and Politics in Uganda
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Women and Politics in Uganda
Aili Mari Tripp
Fall 1999

The Forest of Taboos
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The Forest of Taboos
Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
Valerio Valeri
Spring 1999

The Vampire
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The Vampire
A Casebook
Edited by Alan Dundes
Fall 1998

Dead End Kids
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Dead End Kids
Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
Mark S. Fleisher
Fall 1998

Who Owns America?
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Who Owns America?
Social Conflict over Property Rights
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Fall 1998

Indigenism
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Indigenism
Ethnic Politics in Brazil
Alcida Rita Ramos
Fall 1998

Nature's Geography
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Nature’s Geography
New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries
Edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Kenneth R. Young
Fall 1998

The Life and Works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793–1864
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The Life and Works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793–1864
Edited by Charlotte L. Brancaforte
Spring 1998

Cultures of Secrecy
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Cultures of Secrecy
Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
Andrew Lattas
Spring 1998

In Search of Authenticity
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In Search of Authenticity
The Formation of Folklore Studies
Regina Bendix
Fall 1997

Dead Wrong
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Dead Wrong
A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment
Michael A. Mello, With a Foreword by David Von Drehle
Fall 1997

Pathways of Memory and Power
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Pathways of Memory and Power
Ethnography and History among an Andean People
Thomas A. Abercrombie
Spring 1997

Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
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Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
Osumaka Likaka
Spring 1997

The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
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The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
Charles W. Nuckolls, With a Foreword by Stephen A. Tyler
Fall 1996

The Tongue is Fire
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The Tongue is Fire
South African Storytellers and Apartheid
Harold Scheub
Fall 1996

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops
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Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops
Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
Miriam Goheen
Spring 1996

Volksgeist as Method and Ethic
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Volksgeist as Method and Ethic
Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Spring 1996

Gift Giving
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Gift Giving
A Research Anthology
Edited by Cele Otnes and Richard F. Beltramini
1996

The Masada Myth
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The Masada Myth
Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Fall 1995

Oedipus
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Oedipus
A Folklore Casebook
Edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995

Beggars and Thieves
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Beggars and Thieves
Lives of Urban Street Criminals
Mark S. Fleisher
Fall 1995

After the USSR
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After the USSR
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Anatoly M. Khazanov
Fall 1995

Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity
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Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity
An Athenian Anthropography
Neni Panourgiá
Fall 1995

Folk Law
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Folk Law
Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995

After Tylor
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After Tylor
British Social Anthropology, 1888–1951
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 1995

The Lost Drum
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The Lost Drum
The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond
James F. Weiner
Fall 1995

Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960
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Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600–1960
A Study of Tradition and Change
Robert E. Bieder
Spring 1995

Flinders Petrie
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Flinders Petrie
A Life in Archaeology
Margaret S. Drower
Spring 1995

The Rulings of the Night
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The Rulings of the Night
An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Gregory G. Maskarinec
Spring 1995

Sanumá Memories
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Sanumá Memories
Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis
Alcida Rita Ramos
Spring 1995

Native American Autobiography
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Native American Autobiography
An Anthology
Edited by Arnold Krupat
Fall 1994

Dancing with the Devil
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Dancing with the Devil
Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas
José E. Limón
Fall 1994

Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds
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Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds
The Survival of American Indian Life in Story, History, and Spirit
Edited by Mark A. Lindquist and Martin N. Zanger
Fall 1994

The Wisdom of Many
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The Wisdom of Many
Essays on the Proverb
Edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes
Fall 1994

Living with Africa
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Living with Africa
Jan Vansina
Fall 1994

The Cockfight
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The Cockfight
A Casebook
Alan Dundes
Spring 1994

Witnessing Slavery
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Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives
Frances Smith Foster, With a New Introduction
Spring 1994

Nomads and the Outside World
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Nomads and the Outside World
Anatoly M. Khazanov, Translated by Julia Crookenden; With a Foreword by Ernest Gellner and a new Introduction and Bibliography by the author
Spring 1994

Living Under Contract
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Living Under Contract
Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts
Spring 1994

To Remember the Faces of the Dead
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To Remember the Faces of the Dead
The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain
Thomas Maschio
Spring 1994

The Cultures of Celebrations
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The Cultures of Celebrations
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden
1994

Breaking the Chains
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Breaking the Chains
Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Edited by Martin A. Klein
Fall 1993

Confronting Historical Paradigms
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Confronting Historical Paradigms
Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia C. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern
Spring 1993

The Healer's Tale
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The Healer’s Tale
Transforming Medicine and Culture
Sharon R. Kaufman
Spring 1993

After Freedom
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After Freedom
A Cultural Study in the Deep South
Hortense Powdermaker, With a new Introduction by Brackette P. Williams and Drexel Woodson
Spring 1993

Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
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Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Edited by Richard E. Meyer
1993

H. R. F. Keating
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H. R. F. Keating
Post-Colonial Detection, A Critical Study
Meera Tamaya
1993

River of Blood
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River of Blood
The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. A.D. 1600
J. Matthew Schoffeleers
Fall 1992

The Evil Eye
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The Evil Eye
A Casebook
Edited by Alan Dundes
Spring 1992

Kings and Clans
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Kings and Clans
Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780–1840
David Newbury
Spring 1992

Magical Arrows
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Magical Arrows
The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Gregory Schrempp, With a Foreword by Marshall Sahlins
Spring 1992

Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
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Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack
Fall 1991

The Blood Libel Legend
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The Blood Libel Legend
A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore
Edited by Alan Dundes
Fall 1991

From a Shattered Sun
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From a Shattered Sun
Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
Susan McKinnon
Fall 1991

Colonial Situations
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Colonial Situations
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 1991

Digging into Popular Culture
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Digging into Popular Culture
Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
1991

Peasant Intellectuals
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Peasant Intellectuals
Anthropology and History in Tanzania
Steven Feierman
Fall 1990

Dialogue at the Margins
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Dialogue at the Margins
Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic Relativity
Emily A. Schultz
Fall 1990

Debating Muslims
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Debating Muslims
Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition
Michael M. J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi
Spring 1990

Sharing the Dance
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Sharing the Dance
Contact Improvisation and American Culture
Cynthia J. Novack
Spring 1990

Wombs and Alien Spirits
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Wombs and Alien Spirits
Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Janice Boddy
Fall 1989

Romantic Motives
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Romantic Motives
Essays on Anthropological Sensibility
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Fall 1989

Himalayan Dialogue
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Himalayan Dialogue
Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal
Stan Royal Mumford
Spring 1989

Bones, Bodies, Behavior
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Bones, Bodies, Behavior
Essays in Behavioral Anthropology
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Spring 1988

Thailand’s Reproductive Revolution
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Thailand’s Reproductive Revolution
Rapid Fertility Decline in a Third-World Setting
John Knodel, Aphichat Chamratrithirong, and Nibhon Debavalya
Fall 1987

Pastoral Cities
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Pastoral Cities
Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America
James L. Machor
Fall 1987

Snapshot Versions of Life
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Snapshot Versions of Life
Richard Chalfen
1987

Voices
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Voices
An Anthropologist’s Dialogue with an Italian-American Festival
Richard M. Swiderski
1987

The Ageless Self
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The Ageless Self
Sources of Meaning in Late Life
Sharon R. Kaufman
Fall 1986

Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
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Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
Essays on Culture and Personality
Edited by George W. Stocking
Fall 1986

Objects and Others
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Objects and Others
Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Fall 1985

Functionalism Historicized
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Functionalism Historicized
Essays on British Social Anthropology
Edited by George W. Stocking Jr.
Fall 1984

Red Gold of Africa
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Red Gold of Africa
Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Eugenia W. Herbert
Spring 1984

Observers Observed
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Observers Observed
Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 1983

Festivals of Attica
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Festivals of Attica
An Archaeological Commentary
Erika Simon
Fall 1982

Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales
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Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales
And Their Relation to Chippewa Life
Victor Barnouw
Spring 1977

Slavery in Africa
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Slavery in Africa
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff
Spring 1977

African Art and Leadership
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African Art and Leadership
Edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole
Fall 1971

The Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
A Census
Philip D. Curtin
Spring 1969

Eat Not This Flesh
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Eat Not This Flesh
Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present
Frederick J. Simoons
Fall 1961

The Wars of the Iroquois
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The Wars of the Iroquois
A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
George T. Hunt
1960

Dance
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Dance
A Creative Art Experience
Margaret N. H’Doubler, With a New Essay by Mary Alice Brennan
1957