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The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847.... more

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Metaphor and Sacrament
This book captures the complexity and humanity of one of the most agonizing of contemporary problems—that of terrorist violence.... more

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Archaeology and History in Virginia City
In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’... more

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A Basque Shepherding Community
Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrâce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provences in France.... more

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Race, Space, and Place
The relationships between human identity and place have been studied by scholars from many disciplines.... more

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An Encyclopedic History
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures.... more

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Archaeological Perspectives
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic.... more

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A comparative study of ethnic identity in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay that illustrates the effects of globalization on the daily lives of Basques abroad.... more