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Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, and social science, the visual and performing arts, and America’s public sphere during a period of global upheaval and social struggle.
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Restoring Nature: The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Restoring Nature examines how the National Park Service has sought to reestablish native species and eradicate the exotic flora and fauna from Channel Islands National Park, and explores why the damage happened in the first place.
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Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Beyond the linear, diachronic, documentary past of Western or academic history, Everywhen asks how Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice.
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Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Taking the Field draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire during the Progressive Era.
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Elliott West lays out the main events and developments of the emergence of the American West, situating the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880.
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A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander a. Goldenweiser (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sergei Kan explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser, a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas’s most brilliant and most favored student.
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A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine) (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This dictionary contains more than 6,000 Nakoda-to-English translations, more than 3,000 English-to-Nakoda translations, and more than 1,500 sentences that will be extremely helpful for those interested in mastering word usages and sentence patterns of the Nakoda language.
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Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Speculative Wests investigates representations of the American West in terms of both region and genre, looking at speculative westerns (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) as well as at other speculative texts that feature western settings.
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California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In California Dreams and American Contradictions Monique McDade examines a group of diverse women writers of the American West from an intersectional standpoint to understand the progressive narratives the West tells about itself.
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The Beauty Hunters: Sudanese Bedouin Poetry, Evolution and Impact (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aesthetics, and impact.
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From the Boarding Schools: Apache Indian Students Speak (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Arnold Krupat’s From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections... Læs mere
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Little Poison: Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Paul Runyan—the Arkansas farm boy who stood five feet, six inches and weighed 130 pounds—shocked the golf world by... Læs mere
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