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A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries 

Author: Dardess, John W 1937-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which l…

A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity 

Author: Meeker, Michael E
Publisher: University of California Press,  2002
Abstract: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and a…

The play of time: Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange 

Author: Hoskins, Janet
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indone…

Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California 

Author: Hall, Clarence A
Publisher: University of California Press,  1991
Abstract: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most e…

Democracy and moral development 

Author: Norton, David L
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral De…

Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 

Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1992
Abstract: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement i…

Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa 

Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1994
Abstract: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin…

The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality 

Author: Weiner, James F
Publisher: University of California Press,  1988
Abstract: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of …

Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships 

Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1993
Abstract: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Roc…

Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya 

Author: Stevens, Stanley F
Publisher: University of California Press,  1993
Abstract: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a s…
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