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A masterpiece of social documentary, this work is at once the biography of a photographer, an expose of poverty and injustice, and a celebration of the human spirit.

Historians depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside. This book demonstrates that, to the contrary, militia remained an active civil institution in early nineteenth century, affecting era's social, political, and economic transitions.

Charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950).

How can we interpret and compare different cultures? Gathering insights from an array of anthropologists, archaeologists, and philosophers and applying them to case studies in the United States, this title develops a practical model of culture and method of interpretation that are built around the concept of "constructing constellations".

Recent media coverage of the controversial theory of sexual violence as a product of biological evolution has once again brought the question of the origins of human motivation into the public eye. In this volume, leading scholars in behavioral studies examine the value of evolutionary perspectives in understanding psychological motivations. Beginning with the fundamental fact that humans are part of the biological world, evolutionary psychologists contend that human motivations and mental processes should be understood as by-products of natural selection. By viewing human psychologyΓÇöboth normal and abnormalΓÇöwithin this framework, evolutionary psychologists intend to bridge the disciplinary divide between traditional psychology and fields such as biology.

A comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. It highlights the author's individualities with sustained attention to the ways in which they all reflect upon their identities as Jews and women. Combining careful research with inspired synthesis, it provides a work for students of German, Jewish, and women's writings.

Analyzes the potential and the limits of various research approaches associated with alternative agriculture. This title proposes reforms in institutional aspects of agricultural research - the organization of academic departments, evaluation of professional achievement, functioning of grant programs, and the education of agricultural researchers.

Presents an English translation of Lasker-Schuler's prose - "Concert", which was one of the last books published by a Jew in Germany before Hitler came to power. It contains pieces that vary greatly in theme, mood, length, and complexity, yet they are unified by the medium and by the distinct and lyrical personality of the artist.

When the Corps of Discovery left the vicinity of St Louis in 1804 to explore the American West, they had only sketchy knowledge of the terrain. William Clark mapped every mile of the journey. On their return Lewis and Clark directed the execution of new maps detailing with accuracy the features of the country that they had traversed.

Highlights the accomplishments of Indigenous athletes in the United States and Canada but also explores what these accomplishments have meant to Native American spectators and citizens alike.

Contributes to our understanding of the terms of cultural production many African writers had to negotiate in France.

Anton and Theodor van Dreveldt grew up in Emmerich, as the sons of a Catholic priest and his housekeeper. Theodor, tormented by malaria and financial difficulties, returned to Germany, but Anton remained. This separation helped produce a body of correspondence, describing the van Dreveldts' often troubled relationships with each other.

Examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. This title traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels, from Flaubert's Salammbo to Christa Wolf's Cassandra.

Examines both common and unique health issues associated with a number of different groups - African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American, and Hawaiian - and explores the role of traditional and nontraditional treatments for each. This work is suitable for providers and those concerned with public policy.

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) has emerged as one of the most influential poets of the century. This title explores and participates in the relentless process of Trakl's writing.

An American Indian language belonging to the Muskogean linguistic family, Koasati is spoken today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has collected material from the speakers of the larger Louisiana community to produce the first comprehensive description of Koasati. The book opens with a brief history of the Koasati. The chapters that follow describe Koasati phonology, verb conjugation classes and inflectional morphology, verb derivation, noun inflectional and derivational morphology, grammatical particles, and syntax and semantics. A discussion of Koasati speech styles illustrated with texts concludes the book. Because examples of grammatical construction are drawn from native speakers in naturally occurring discourse, they authoritatively document aspects of a language that is little known.

Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the responsibility of educating a state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Uniting the arts and sciences, commerce and agriculture, and open to all regardless of "age, sex, color, or nationality," it has as its motto - dedicated to letters and all the arts. This book offers its history.

After a childhood of microwaved meat and saturated fat, Matthew Gavin Frank got serious about food. His ""research"" ultimately led him to Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), where, living out of a tent in the garden of a local farmhouse, he resolved to learn about Italian food from the ground up. Barolo is Frank's account of those six months.

Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of ""permanent war"".

A cross-cultural ethnoarchaeological study of the gendered nature of subsistence in northern hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. Based on field studies of four circumpolar societies, it documents the complexities of women's and men's involvement in food procurement, processing, and storage, and the relationship of such behaviors to built landscape.

Tells the story of the Unitarian Service Committee, an organization of Americans who rescued European refugees during World War II.

Some scholars allege that the Jews' own conduct was the main cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the Kulturkampfe.

Decorum was everything - in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. This title includes stories that announce a dramatic change, a transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, and of the role of women in this most 'feminine' literary tradition.

Considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. This book focuses on French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of the inner self and physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature.

Discusses and compares the origins, structure, and development of religious and political revitalization movements in North America and the Pacific Islands. This work covers the twentieth-century Cargo Cults of the South Pacific, the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements in western North America, the Tuka Movement on Fiji in 1885, and more.

Features essays on child abuse and public policy. In this book, the concept of motivation is used to shed light on a range of complex issues surrounding the maltreatment of children.