Bodies in the Making
Transgressions and Transformations
Edited by Nancy N. Chen and Helene Moglen
Price: $12.00
North Atlantic Books
In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic...
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shock and awe
war on words
Edited by Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzalez, Bettina Stotzer and Anna Tsing
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in framing our everyday lives. Located in the borderlands...
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Spiritual Tattoo
A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
Written by John Rush
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
Say "body modifications" and most people think of tattoos and piercings. They associate these mainly with the urban primitives of the 1980s to today and with primitive tribes. In fact, as this fascinating book shows, body mods have been on the scene since ancient times, traceable as far back as 1.5...
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Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Modalities
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by Peter Levine
Price: $30.00
North Atlantic Books
Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative...
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Planet Medicine, Revised Edition
Origins
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by John Upledger
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative...
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Wind in the Blood
Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
Written by Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra and Hilberto Balam, Translated by Jeff Conant
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians...
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Maya Atlas
The Struggle to Preserve Maya Land in Southern Belize
Written by Toledo Maya Cultural Council and Toledo Alcades Association
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
The Maya Atlas was made by the forty-two Ke'kchi and Mopan Maya communities of southern Belize. The maps, text, drawings, photographs and interviews were done by Maya village researchers and cartographers elected by the communities. In their own words and with their own maps, the Maya describe their land and life...
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Ecology, Meaning, & Religion
Written by Roy A. Rappaport
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
"Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings...
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Talking Feet
Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot, and Tap
Written by Pete Seeger
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
Compiled by musician/folklorist Mike Seeger and dancer Ruth Pershing, Talking Feet introduces us to dancers from the Appalachian, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Mountain regions of the South. In its various forms—flatfooting, buckdancing, hoedown, rural tap or clogging—Southern dancing involves a great deal of personal style and innovation as dancers create the...
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