By Margery Wolf (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Via time travel, Charlotte Makee, a 21st century anthropologist, meets an elderly Coast Miwok curer named Sekiak in the hills near Olompali in Marin County, California. Charlotte wishes to learn about Coast Miwok life before their society was disrupted and then destroyed by Catholic priests, Spanish soldiers, settlers, and … Continued
By Michael G. Peletz (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less … Continued
By Reinhard Bernbeck (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) Only a few contemporary witnesses can provide information about the conditions in the camps of the National Socialist tyranny. The archive material is often unproductive, especially in the case of smaller facilities such as sub-concentration camps and forced labor camps. But their traces can be found everywhere in Central … Continued
Edited by David Warren Sabean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Christopher H. Johnson Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship – rather than … Continued
By Leon R. Kass (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural – from metabolism, … Continued
By Parker Shipton (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need … Continued
By Nicholas Harkness (NHC Fellow, 2016–17)
Edited by Shepard Krech, III (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1993–94; 2000–01) New edition of a bibliography first published in 1986 by the Rupert's Land Research Centre, intended to lay the groundwork for well-researched student projects. Scholars are warned in the introduction that the more inaccessible governmental or research-center reports are not within the scope of this … Continued
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Michel-Rolph Trouillot places the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution, alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus in this moving and thought-provoking meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Silencing … Continued
By Carolyn Higbie (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from Lindos to study the ancient Greeks and their past. The inscription contains two inventories. The first catalogues some forty objects given to Athena Lindia by figures from the mythological past (including Heracles, Helen, and Menelaus) and the historical … Continued