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Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840 - 1914

Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840 - 1914

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How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War

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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951

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This is a comprehensive exploration of the intellectual transition that gave rise to modern British social anthropology. The author emphasizes the interplay of ethnographic data and anthropological theory, offering a...
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY

BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY

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Accompanying a London Weekend Television series, this book traces the history of popular entertainment in London from the end of the 19th century to the present day. From the Victorian...
Gun-guwelamagapa: The Land of Our Old People: All the different camps

Gun-guwelamagapa: The Land of Our Old People: All the different camps

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Gun-guwelamagapa: Gun-nerranga gun-nerranga rrawa, An-barra gun-nika describes the An-barra Archaeological Project, which investigated the archaeological sites around the mouth of the Blyth River (An-gartcha Wana literally "Big River") in central...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published...
Himalaya: A Human History

Himalaya: A Human History

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The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains 'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' Telegraph This...