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  • Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

    Edited by David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, Audhild Schanche ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land as special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes encounter conflict with local populations over ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    by David Hurst Thomas ...
    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Power of Place, the Problem of Time

    Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism

    by Keith Thor Carlson ...
    The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly. In The Power of Place, the Problem of Time, Keith Thor Carlson re-thinks the history of Native ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • People of the Saltwater

    An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon

    by Charles R. Menzies ...
    A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.People of the Saltwater first ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law

    by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows ...
    Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. She follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality

    Religion in a Pluralistic World

    by Felicitas D. Goodman ...
    A cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion that offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior.In this book, anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion. The analysis is divided into two sections. The first reviews species-wide human ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    by Roxana Waterson ...
    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Rivers

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Middleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and country. The flow of rivers has enthused poets and painters, explorers and pilgrims. Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can bear ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Blood and Land

    The Story of Native North America

    by J. C. H. King ...
    Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples.This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast

    by Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Native American Tribes
    The indigenous peoples of North America and Greenland have long inhabited and thrived in a variety of terrains and climates. The three different culture areas of the Arctic, American Subarctic, and American Northwest perhaps best exemplify this—from the sometimes stark environment of the tundra to the moderate conditions of the coastal regions in northern California, the indigenous communities in ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus