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  • The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

    Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

    by Megan Biesele, Robert K. Hitchcock ...
    The Ju/’hoan San, or Ju/’hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology. This is the story of how this group of former hunter-gatherers, speaking an exotic click language, formed a grassroots movement that led them to become a dynamic part of the new nation that grew from the ashes of apartheid South West Africa. While coverage of this ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ecotourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples

    by Wayne A. Babchuk, Robert K. Hitchcock, F. Sonia Arellano-Lopez, Megan Biesele, Roderick Taufan Jan Buiskool, Vidal Gonzales, Melinda C. Kelly, Stasja Koot, Sachiko Kubota0, R. Fleming Puckett1, Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia2, Wiveca A-C. Stegeborn3 ...
    Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleEcotourism, defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people, has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The impacts of ecotourism on people in virtually every part of the planet are particularly true for Indigenous people. Indigenous people are found in over half of ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Chronicling Cultures

    Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology

    by Robert V. Kemper, Wade Pendleton, T Scarlett Epstein, Ulla C. Johansen, Douglas R. White, Louise Lamphere, Evon Z. Vogt, Richard B. Lee, Megan Biesele0, Thayer Scudder1, Elizabeth Colson2, Lisa Cliggett3, George M. Foster4, Peter S. Cahn5 ...
    Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents-the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among others. These projects have brought a new understanding of change and persistence in communities over time. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Once Upon a Time is Now

    A Kalahari Memoir

    by Megan Biesele ...
    Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on ... Read more

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  • Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

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  • Where the River Ends

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    Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 ... Read more

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  • A Death in the Rainforest

    How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

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