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Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization

Entertaining reference to the sport of baseball, including larger-than-life characters, baseball legends, sports facts and firsts, important milestones, and observations about daily life and popular culture.

Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropologyOCOs vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaningOCoin terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing its subjects, and how it understands and legitimizes itself. Of particular concern is that meaning is comprehended and created through a complex and continually unfolding process predicated on what is not thereOCothe unspoken, the unheard, the unknownOCoas much as on what is there. Such powerful absences, described by Wagner as OC anti-twins, OCO are crucial for the invention of cultures and any discipline that proposes to study them.As revealed through conversations between Wagner and Coyote, Wagner's anti-twin, a coyote anthropology should be as much concerned with absence as with presence if it is to depict accurately the dynamic and creative worlds of others. Furthermore, Wagner suggests that anthropologists not only be aware of what informs and conditions their discipline but also understand the range of necessary exclusions that permit anthropology to do what it does. Sly and enticing, probing and startling, Coyote Anthropology beckons anthropologists to draw closer to the center of all things, known and unknown

Written by an anthropologist, an historian, and a Native singer, this title reveals the personal and cultural power of Christian faith among the Kiowas of southwestern Oklahoma and shows how Christian members of the Kiowa community have creatively embraced hymns and made them their own. It features a CD of twenty-six Kiowa hymns.

A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape.

Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

Sidney Thompson tells the story of the early career of Bass Reeves, one of the greatest lawmen in American history, and his life as a slave before he became a deputy U.S. marshal.

In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.

Russell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of "Flyover Country" that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.

Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape and cultural change as related to the production and consumption of fermented products.

Sabotaged is the remarkable account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a utopia.

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic opportunities. ┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á┬á Using the sea as a source of language and metaphor, Adeoba explores themes of memory, transition, and the intersections between the historic and the imagined. With great tenderness and power his poetry of empathy searches for meaning in sharply constructed images, creating scenes of making and unmaking while he investigates experiences of exile and displacement across time and place. ┬á

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world in the twenty-first century? Robin Hemley wrestles with this question in Borderline Citizen as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.

Though spiritually akin to prose poems, Robert Vivian's dervish essays retain an essayistic form while reflecting the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of Turkey's whirling dervishes with their wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling.

In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.

Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities.

Drawing on an array of approaches-biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political-Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt's manifold encounters with the great outdoors.

Originally published in 1856, this title presents the personal recollection of Peter Still, a black slave. He was stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers.

This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thoughts of home and loss.

Constitutes one of baseball's and the civil rights movement's great untold stories.

Edith's protected life comes to an end when she must face the bitter fact that her beautiful daughter at eighteen is more a soldier than a farmer and that the kibbutz where Dinah now lives is a military fortress, despite its newly planted orchards.

Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500-1830 examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with a focus on New Spain and Quito, Jaime E. Rodriguez O. demonstrates that the process of independence of Spanish America differs from previous claims.

The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever.

The true story of Elliott Howe, a young public defender and Creek Indian who risked his career to defend an impoverished Cherokee man named Buster Youngwolfe, who was accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl in 1950s Oklahoma.

Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. contend that the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of remembrance that evokes feelings of insecurity that justify post-9/11 domestic and international security efforts.

Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts.

Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes.