Elizabeth Salt

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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art

This enthralling real-life mystery will appeal to general readers with interests in history, anthropology, and exploration.
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Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

Clifford successfully interweaves ideas from multiple disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and political science to create a fascinating cultural exploration. This scholarly work, with its extensive bibliography and copious references throughout, will be of interest mostly to graduate students and faculty members in the various disciplines mentioned.
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Kopenawa's story is eloquent, engaging, and thought-provoking, exuding heartfelt wisdom. This extraordinary and richly detailed work is an outstanding explication of the Yanomami worldview as well as a plea to all people to respect and preserve the rain forest. Very highly recommended to all with an interest in anthropology, Native American studies, conservation, or ecology.
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Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture

A scholarly work that will be useful for anthropology and documentary film studies scholars and graduate students.
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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

This excellent scholarly study of a neglected period in Margaret Mead's life is best suited to anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and graduate students who have some knowledge of anthropological theory.
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The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

This scholarly but accessible work about an individual now somewhat forgotten to history will be of greatest interest to scholars and serious Brazilian and Amazonian history enthusiasts.
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A Feast of Weeds: A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Edible Plants

This fascinating and accessible guide should be of interest to both plant-lore researchers and to Italian cooking enthusiasts.
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Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya

The complex political and cultural dynamics of the entire span of Mayan history vividly come to life through this beautiful book. An outstanding and luminous work that will be enjoyed by anyone pursuing a greater understanding of Mayan history and culture.
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The Creation of Inequality

This provocative work, likely to become an important contribution to the literature of social and political anthropology, will be of interest both to scholars in the field and to anthropology and archaeology enthusiasts seeking understanding of the development and perpetuation of inequality in human societies.
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