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Clear presentation of postmodernism, in relation to the media and to images of Islam.

Ahmed, A. S.. (1992). Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise.. New York: Routledge.

Basics of ethnobotany, the study of plants in their cultural setting.

Balick, M. J., and P. A. Cox. (1996). Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany.. New York: Scientific American Library.

The medicinal and health implications of deforestation at the local, regional, national, and global levels.

Balick, M. J., E. Elisabetsky, and S. A. Laird. (1995). Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest: Biodiversity and Its Importance to Human Health.. New York: Columbia University Press.

Social change, acculturation, and culture conflict involving indigenous peoples.

Bodley, J. H.. (1999). Victims of Progress, 4th ed.. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Overview of major problems of today's industrial world: overconsumption, the environment, resource depletion, hunger, overpopulation, violence, and war.

Bodley, J. H.. (2000). Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, 4th ed.. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Originally published as the Spring 1992 issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly. Manual for the promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples. Highlights activist successes, gives instructions for affecting policy, working in schools and communities, directly helping native societies, and using the media as a human-rights ally.

Cultural Survival. (1992). At the Threshold.. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.

Classic study of Brazilian Carnaval in relation to Brazilian national culture.

DaMatta, R.. (1991). Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma. Translated from the Portuguese by John Drury.. Notre Dame, IN:: University of Notre Dame Press.

Ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea.

Feld, S.. (1990). Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 2nd ed.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

The role of the individual in using popular culture, constructing meaning, and resisting everyday power relations.

Fiske, J.. (1989). Understanding Popular Culture.. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Cultural consumption, diversity, and market segmentation in today's global economy.

Gottdiener, M., ed.. (2000). New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Culture, and Commodification.. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

How the cultural narratives of the magazine are received and interpreted; the relation between images of other peoples, cultures, and life styles and middle-class North American values.

Lutz, C., and J. L. Collins. (1993). Reading National Geographic.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

New edition of an influential book on modern and postmodern anthropology.

Marcus, G. E., and M. M. J. Fischer. (1999). Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, 2nd ed.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Art, society, and the marketing of culture in global perspective.

Marcus, G. E., and F. R. Myers, eds.. (1995). The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

National characteristics, relations, identity, and culture under globalization.

Mathews, G.. (2000). Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket.. New York: Routledge.

The meaning of activism for Native American individual ethnic identification; the role of federal, tribal, and personal politics in the growth of American Indian identity.

Nagel, J.. (1996). American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture.. New York: Oxford University Press.

Articles deal with the anthropology of the modern and postmodern world system.

Public Culture. Public Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

How Western art and commerce classify, co-opt, and commodify "native" experiences, creations, and products.

Root, D.. (1996). Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference.. Boulder, CO: Westview.

A study of institutionalized forms of domination, such as colonialism, slavery, serfdom, racism, caste, concentration camps, prisons, and old-age homes--and the forms of resistance that oppose them.

Scott, J. C.. (1990). Domination and the Arts of Resistance.. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Reflections on contemporary lives, social engineering, and authoritarianism.

Scott, J. C.. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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