Product Description: The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British...read more

'Vast, multidisciplinary collection contains previously published articles and excerpts from books on Peruvian themes. Concerns archaeology, history, political systems, resistance movements, drugs, and cultural issues. Includes ethnographic contributionsof Peruvianists such as Irene Silverblatt, John Murra, Josâe Marâia Arguedes, Catherine Allen, Orin Starn, and others'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

An anthropologist retraces his steps in a remarkable journey to locate the brain of Ishi--the 'last Indian' of California who became a national icon of dying Native American culture when he was captured in 1911--and his struggle to repatriate the remains. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

An anthropologist retraces his steps in a remarkable journey to locate the brain of Ishi--the 'last Indian' of California who became a national icon of dying Native American culture when he was captured in 1911--and his struggle to repatriate the remains. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of the late twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Peasants in India hugging trees to protest logging, Brazilian feminists marching to impeach a president, Okinawan television comedians joke-starting ethnic activity. All are instances of social protest that exist in the charged territory between the cataclysmic upheaval of revolutionary war and the everyday acts of private resistance. Yet these movements "in between" resistance and revolution have remained invisible to scholars of politics, culture, and society. Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and demonstrate the importance of looking beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization.The contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, Richard Fox, Faye Ginsburg, Ramachandra Guha, Ingrid Monson, Yoshinobu Ota, Orin Starn, and Nathan Stoltzfus. (view table of contents)