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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 42 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its sell-by date. In Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination, media scholar Justin Lewis makes a compelling case that consumer capitalism can no longer deliver on its promise of enhancing quality of life, and argues that changing direction will require changing our media system and our cultural environment....
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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 13 min. 27 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions run by the Aborigines Welfare Board. From 1883 to 1969, this policy deprived generations of children of their Aboriginal identity. Oomera was one of these...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 23 min. 4 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Agnes Abbott was born at Loves Creek Station in the 1930s. She lived in the bush with her Eastern Arrernte family, travelling across the parts of her homeland which are still accessible to the old people. From her early years born and raised in the bush, learning the survival tools and the ways of their culture, Agnes' life underwent many and expansive changes. More of her homelands became inaccessible to families for hunting, and finding new ways...
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Series
Ballena Press anthropological papers volume no. 25, etc
Publisher
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date
c1982-c1987
Physical Desc
5 v. : ill., graphs ; 29 cm.
Language
English
6) Daily life
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Series
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
12) The Pueblo
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Pueblo.
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"On his regular walk one morning, Spike Carlsen realized there was an entire world outside his front door that he knew nothing about. How does that fire hydrant work, he wondered? Why are street lights shining more brightly than ever before? And, on a more personal level, why does an easy stroll around the neighborhood always leave him feeling more creative and spry, better able to take on the day? A simple walk around the block set Carlsen off on...
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Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col), col. map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines many of the technological innovations that the Vikings incorporated into their daily lives in such areas as weapons and armor, transportation, and jewellery-making.
Author
Publisher
Merryant Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A look at the culture and history of the Northern Paiute peoples of the Great Basin, with information on village and family life, religion, hunting and fishing practices, and native arts.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
Author
Publisher
Merryant Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
68 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A look at the culture and history of the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest, with information on village and family life, religion, hunting and fishing practices, and native arts.
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Series
Publisher
Costaño Books in association with Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin (MAPOM)
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 color map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides the most complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras." "Nearly 200 full color photographs and drawings illustrate the rare, fine California Indian baskets from great museums and private collections in the United States and Europe. The vast majority of...
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