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Sacred Texts And Introductory Texts, Terence E. Hays
Sacred Texts And Introductory Texts, Terence E. Hays
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A survey of 118 introductory anthropology textbooks published in the period 1929-1990 examines the ways in which Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa has been presented to college undergraduates. In contrast to Derek Freeman's claim that her conclusions about Samoan sexuality and adolescence have been reiterated (approvingly) in an "unbroken succesion of anthropological textbooks," it appears that this work has been ignored almost as often as it has been cited. Criticesms of Mead, although relatively few and almost entirely methodological, have also been incorporated into texstbooks, both before and following Freeeman's 1983 book, Margaret Mead and Samoa. Whether …
Grounds For Argument: Local Understandings, Science, And Global Processes In Special Forest Products Harvesting, Thomas Love, Eric Jones
Grounds For Argument: Local Understandings, Science, And Global Processes In Special Forest Products Harvesting, Thomas Love, Eric Jones
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In posing the question "Where are the pickers?", Love and Jones suggest that the shifting paradigm in forestry is real and that academia is not leading the shift. Love and Jones illustrate the emergence of special forest products' legitimacy in competing uses of forests with their experience and research in mushroom harvesting in the Pacific Northwest.
Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare
Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare
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On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter
On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter
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