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  • Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca Worldby Helaine Silverman

    University of Iowa Press 2009; US$ 29.95

    Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal context. Silverman's long-term,... more...

  • Ethnic Heritage in Mississippiby Shana Walton; Barbara Carpenter

    University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 40.00

    Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities--sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden--have helped shape the state in important ways. Amid renewed interest in identity, the Mississippi Humanities Council has commissioned a companion volume to its earlier book that studied ethnicity in the state... more...

  • Crossroads at Clarksdaleby Francoise Nicole Hamlin

    The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 39.95

    Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments of its diverse African American community and... more...

  • Anthropological History of Andean Politiesby John V. Murra; Nathan Wachtel; Jacques Revel

    Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 35.00

    It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean societies over various millenia. more...

  • Customizing Indigeneityby Shane Greene

    Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 19.95

    Customizing Indigeneity follows the Aguaruna on their paths to becoming leaders of Peru's Amazonian movement, revealing both their creative cultural agency and the constraints of contemporary indigenous movement politics along the way. more...

  • Frommer's Peruby Neil Edward Schlecht

    Wiley 2012; US$ 21.99

    Insider advice on navigating Peru’s stunning natural and cultural attractions, like witnessing giant condors soar through the Colca Canyon, trekking through the Amazon jungle, exploring Cusco’s lively Mercado Central, and, of course, hiking the Inca trail to the gates of Machu Picchu. Where to find the most charming villages of the... more...

  • We End in Joyby Angela Fordice Jordan; Marshall Ramsey

    University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 25.00

    We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter offers an extraordinary perspective on public life in an intimate account from the daughter of a highly controversial southern governor and a widely beloved first lady.Angela Jordan enjoyed a comfortable and quiet life in Vicksburg, the small southern town in which she was reared. She was a thirty-five-year-old... more...

  • Death in the Deltaby Molly Walling

    University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 28.00

    Growing up, Molly Walling could not fathom the source of the dark and intense discomfort in her family home. Then in 2006 she discovered her father's complicity in the murder of two black men on December 12, 1946, in Anguilla, deep in the Mississippi Delta. Death in the Delta tells the story of one woman's search for the truth behind a closely... more...

  • The Peddlerâ??s Grandsonby Edward Cohen

    University Press of Mississippi 1999; US$ 30.00

    Edward Cohen grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt, thousand of miles from the northern centers of Jewish culture. As a child he sang "Dixie" in his segregated school, said the "sh'ma" at temple. While the civil rights struggle exploded all around, he worked at the family clothing store that catered to blacks. His grandfather... more...

  • Under a Watchful Eyeby Harry Walker

    University of California Press 2012; US$ 29.95

    What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one?s involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin... more...