Tudor Parfitt
In a mixture of travel, adventure, and scholarship, historian Tudor Parfitt sets out in search of answers to a fascinating ethnological puzzle: is the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa really one of the lost tribes of Israel, descended from King ... [... more]
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The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique ...
 Author: Fuyuki Kurasawa Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001 EAN: 9780816642403 ISBN: 0816642400 Number Of Pages: 249 Publication Date: 2004-08 [... more]
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Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies
The Flowering Thorn: The Flowering Thorn attempts to illustrate the broad range of topics within the field of ballad studies. These topics are multidisciplinary in nature using folklore, history, literary, and ethnological sources as well as a variety of [... more]
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Artist: Can Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724596931929 Original Release Date: 1979-01-01 Release Date: 2006-06-27 UPC: 724596931929 Tracks: All Gates Open Safe Sunday Jam Sodom Aspectacle Ethnological Forgery Series No. 99 "Can Can" Ping Pong Can Be [... more]
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Cannibal Isles: Time-Travelling in the Andaman Islands
Islands of Lost Souls: Perhaps due to their remote location, surrounded by treacherous seas in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Burma, the Andaman Islands have always been a source of fear and fascination for travellers. Marco Polo, in the 13th century, [... more]
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Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry: From the Colette and Jean ...
Splendor is the appropriate word: This is, indeed, a very beautifully photographed book. The represented pieces are all exquisite. Though, it's true there could have been more background information provided, giving the book a rating of one star, as the [... more]
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Dreamtime and Inner Space
The new classic text on shamanism?: Kalweit traces in great detail and with admirable sympathy the rich textures of the shamanic tradition, across the globe and throughout recorded ethnological histories. Particularly interesting and useful is the [... more]
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Questions of Travel-PB
The decline of the western thought: I frankly nothing learned from this feminist postmodernist approach of displacements and travels. If you want my opinion as a social anthropologist all this postmodern buhaha combining feminist studies, postcolonialism [... more]
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Meeting The Other Crowd
Reason to believe!: Eddie Lenihan is a national treasure of Ireland. The folklorist is obsessed with the collection and sharing of Ireland's old stories. Realizing that the old ways -- sharing stories over a peat fire or a pint -- are in danger of [... more]
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In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
Landmark ethnography of Siberian accessible to non-academics: In the House of Soviet Culture is the first recipient of the American Ethnological Society Book Prize for First Book, and rightfully so, for Bruce Grant has given us a great ethnography of the [... more]
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In The Land Of War Canoes
Am amazing glimpse into native american folklore: A fascinating docu-dramatization of an ancient folk legend of Vancouver's Kwakiutl indians... This ethnological tour-de-force has a compelling, if simple, plot, of bloodshed, revenge and justice, but is [... more]
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The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918: From Enlightenment ...
Billions of facts for your delectation ...: If there is anything a person could have ever wanted to know about the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is not at least touched upon in this tome - I can't imagine what it could be. If you like to do timelines as [... more]
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