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Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 27, 2023
Cultures in Contact: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Mechanics of Acculturation.
Culture is not a thing. It is a negotiation, an ongoing tumult of borrowings and innovations hung upon a skeleton of previously...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 15, 2023
Chronicler of the Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys of Isabella Bird.
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from the Sultan at Marrakesh, telling...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 12, 2023
Our Neighbor, Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
The 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of palaeoanthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning new glimpse into the...
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