Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
Freeze Frame takes a penetrating, often humorous, look at how Eskimos have been portrayed in nearly a century of film, from the pioneering documentaries of missionaries and Arctic explorers to Eskimo fie commercials of the 1990s. Some of these works are [... more]
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The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment
Book Description: Kate Distin's highly readable and accessible book presents for the first time a fully developed and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture develops both through mimetic evolution and human creativity, and that memetic [... more]
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Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American ...
Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By [... more]
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Tao Lin's territory is the rich, neglected space between the bigger things we thought we already knew. Only in his hands everything becomes strange-a little warped, a little sad, and a whole lot more intriguing. With understated lyricism, he reminds us [... more]
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Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American ...
DIVIProphets of the Great Spirit/Ioffers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By [... more]
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland
DIVIContemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland/Ipresents a wide range of writers-some at the heart of British culture, others outside the mainstream-who address the issue of Jewish cultural difference in Great Britain and Ireland. Editor Bryan [... more]
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Culture and the Real: Theorizing Cultural Criticism
What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. [... more]
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Genealogy and Literature
DIVTraditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/ [... more]
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland
diviContemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland/ipresents a wide range of writers-some at the heart of British culture, others outside the mainstream-who address the issue of Jewish cultural difference in Great Britain and Ireland. Editor Bryan [... more]
$89.95
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Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (Casebound Version ...
good job: the price was great and i received it in good time with no problems Good read even outside of class.: This review is for Essentials of Abnormal Psychology in just that blue cover. I bought it for a college course a year back. Basically [... more]
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Bounded People, Boundless Lands: Envisioning A New Land ...
a hopeful vision, an elegant book: Readers who are familiar with environmental writing will recognize the homage to Aldo Leopold in the subtitle (envisioning a new land ethic). Surprisingly, the landscape that produced what must be among Leopold's most [... more]
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The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment
Book Description: Kate Distin's highly readable and accessible book presents for the first time a fully developed and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture develops both through mimetic evolution and human creativity, and that memetic [... more]
$26.99
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