Çatal Hüyük
Çatal Hüyük

Author: James Mellaart

Publisher: London: Thames and Hudson

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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A portrait of the recently excavated Catal Huyuk, a city that existed at least 3000 years before those of early Mesopotamia.

A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians
A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians

Author: Thomas Biolsi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-03-10

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1405182881

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This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'