Don's Book & DVD Selections for 2008 

These are books about people around the world, their customs, politics and lifetsyles. It combines the subject areas of anthropology, archaeology, folklore, ethnic studies, and a special emphasis on American Indian studies to support new classes at the College.

Student audience: Writing, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, American Indian Studies

1. "I am a man" : Chief Standing Bear's journey for justice / Joe Starita

2. A coyote reader / William Bright

3. African Creeks : Estelvste and the Creek Nation / Gary Zellar

4. American Indian nations : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / edited by George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne, and Chandler C. Jackson

5. American Indian places : a historical guidebook / Frances H. Kennedy, editor and principal contributor

6. American Indians and the law / N. Bruce Duthu

7. American Indians in a modern world / Donald L. Fixico

8. Beyond white ethnicity : developing a sociological understanding of Native American identity reclamation / Kathleen J. Fitzgerald

9. Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race / George M. Fredrickson

10. Blackfoot war art : pictographs of the reservation period, 1880-2000 / L. James Dempsey

11. Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression / edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco

12. Bounded choice : true believers and charismatic cults / Janja Lalich

13. Braid of feathers : American Indian law and contemporary tribal life / Frank Pommersheim

14. Buddhism in contemporary Tibet : religious revival and cultural identity / edited by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein ; with a foreword by Orville Schell

15. Cinderella dreams : the allure of the lavish wedding / Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth H. Pleck

16. December's child : a book of Chumash oral narratives / collected by J.P. Harrington ; edited, with an analysis, by Thomas C. Blackburn

17. Designing & conducting ethnographic research / Margaret D. Lecompte, Jean J. Schensul

18. Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Daniel L. Everett

19. Early civilizations of Southeast Asia / Dougald J.W. O'Reilly

20. Fixing men : sex, birth control, and AIDS in Mexico / Matthew Gutmann

21. Florida's people during the last ice age / Barbara A. Purdy ; foreword by James S. Dunbar

22. Ghost dances and identity : prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century / Gregory E. Smoak

23. Global ethnography : forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world / Michael Burawoy ... [et al.]

24. Haiti, history, and the gods / Joan Dayan

25. Harriet Tubman : myth, memory, and history / Milton C. Sernett

26. Haunted halls : ghostlore of American college campuses / Elizabeth Tucker

27. Human adaptability : an introduction to ecological anthropology / Emilio F. Moran

28. Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / Paula J. Giddings

29. In pursuit of the past : decoding the archaeological record : with a new afterword / Lewis R. Binford, with the editorial collaboration of Joyn F. Cherry and Robin Torrence

30. Indian legends of the Pacific Northwest / by Ella E. Clark ; illustrated by Robert Bruce Inverarity

31. Indians in the making : ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound / Alexandra Harmon

32. Institutional racism : a primer on theory and strategies for social change / Shirley Better

33. Islands in the city : West Indian migration to New York / edited by Nancy Foner

34. Jacob's legacy : a genetic view of Jewish history / David B. Goldstein

35. Keepers of the game : Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade / Calvin Martin

36. Landscape of slavery : the plantation in American art / edited by Angela D. Mack, Stephen G. Hoffius ; with essays by Angela D. Mack ... [et al.]

37. Latin American indigenous warfare and ritual violence / edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza

38. Learning to write "Indian" : the boarding-school experience and American Indian literature / Amelia V. Katanski

39. Louisiana Creoles : cultural recovery and mixed-race Native American identity / Andrew J. Jolivétte ; foreword by Paula Gunn Allen

40. Making dictionaries : preserving indigenous languages of the Americas / edited by William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill, Pamela Munro

41. Medicine bags and dog tags : American Indian veterans from colonial times to the second Iraq War / Al Carroll

42. Mukat's people : the Cahuilla Indians of southern California / Lowell John Bean

43. Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey / Colin Grant

44. Nightshift NYC / Russell Leigh Sharman & Cheryl Harris Sharman ; photographs by Corey Hayes

45. Nisqually Indian tribe / Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Maria Victoria Pascualy, and Trisha Hunter

46. One thousand languages : living, endangered, and lost / edited by Peter K. Austin

47. Out of the earth : civilization and the life of the soil / Daniel Hillel

48. Race relations in the United States, 1920-1940 / Leslie V. Tischauser

49. Race relations in the United States, 1940-1960 / Thomas J. Davis

50. Race relations in the United States, 1960-1980 / Thomas Upchurch

51. Race relations in the United States, 1980-2000 / Timothy Messer-Kruse

52. Real Indians : identity and the survival of Native America / Eva Marie Garroutte

53. Religion in the prehispanic Southwest / edited by Christine S. VanPool, Todd L. VanPool, and David A. Phillips, Jr

54. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific coast Salish art and artists / edited by Barbara Brotherton

55. Sacagawea : a biography / April R. Summitt

56. Sacagawea's child : the life and times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau / by Susan M. Colby

57. Scottsboro and its legacy : the cases that challenged American legal and social justice / James R. Acker

58. Seeing color : indigenous peoples and racialized ethnic minorities in Oregon / edited by Jun Xing ... [et al.]

59. Sitting Bull / Bill Yenne

60. Soul hunters : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / Rane Willerslev

61. Southern culture : an introduction / John Beck, Wendy Frandsen, Aaron Randall

62. Spirit wars : Native North American religions in the age of nation building / Ronald Niezen ; with contributions by Manley Begay, Jr. ... [et al.]

63. Standing ground : Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 / Thomas Buckley

64. Studies in American Indian languages : description and theory / edited by Leanne Hinton and Pamela Munro

65. Superheroes and gods : a comparative study from Babylonia to Batman / Don LoCicero

66. Survival by hunting : prehistoric human predators and animal prey / George C. Frison

67. Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson

68. Terra nullius : a journey through no one's land / Sven Lindqvist ; translated by Sarah Death

69. The American Indian : past and present / edited by Roger L. Nichols

70. The Choctaws in Oklahoma : from tribe to nation, 1855-1970 / Clara Sue Kidwell ; foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson

71. The Chumash world at European contact : power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers / Lynn H. Gamble

72. The inland whale : [nine stories retold from California Indian legends] / by Theodora Kroeber ; with a new foreword by Karl Kroeber

73. The Martin Luther King, Jr., encyclopedia / Clayborne Carson ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of the King Research and Education Institute

74. The natural world of the California Indians / Robert F. Heizer and Albert B. Elsasser

75. The Recurring Dark Ages : ecological stress, climate changes, and system transformation / Sing C. Chew

76. The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge / Carlos Castaneda

77. Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison / Lorna A. Rhodes

78. Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon / Lynn Stephen

79. Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock

80. Victorio : Apache warrior and chief / by Kathleen P. Chamberlain

81. Voices of the heart : Asian American women on immigration, work, and family / Huping Ling

82. Voyages : a Maine Franco-American reader / Nelson Madore & Barry Rodrigue, editors ; with Corinna Miller and Chase Høbert

83. Where are you from? : Middle-class migrants in the modern world / Dhooleka S. Raj