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  • Coal in our Veins

    A Personal Journey

    In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' ... Leer más

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Leer más

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  • Maya Gods of War

    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Leer más

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  • Chess Books Published by Russell Enterprises

    Selected Excerpts

    Russell Enterprises has been publishing chess books for over 35 years. Although an individual excerpt is available for each of our current titles (see https://www.russell-enterprises.com/russell-enterprises), we thought combining many of them into one eBook would be helpful and welcomed by chessplayers. The result is an eBook which is the equivalent of almost 250 printed pages containing excerpts ... Leer más

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Leer más

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  • Pearl of the Faith

    Vygostky's theory treats that some resolution of the reification or disposition to follow those that favor us, fed us with might and crumbs, making us eat the phantasy of people choose, among vanities others. Earn more but destroy others, take out the meal on the plate, spit or use a knife, but pray to god asking something, money. Hope to stay rich, believing in the effect and cause of their ... Leer más

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Leer más

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  • "The Touch of Civilization"

    Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization

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    The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state ... Leer más

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  • Political Landscapes of Capital Cities

    Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put ... Leer más

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  • Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    Edición de Sarah Kurnick, Joanne Baron ...
    Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the ... Leer más

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  • Go East, Young Man

    Imagining the American West as the Orient

    Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West—in other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”—has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding ... Leer más

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