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Call of the Forbidden Way by Robert Owings

Best Shamanism Books

50 books — 65 voters

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee by James Mooney

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

The Ghost Dance

9 books — 3 voters

Iroszkoci w kulturze średniowiecznej Europy by Jerzy Strzelczyk

Hellenika. Wizerunek epoki od Aleksandra do Augusta by Anna Świderkówna

Cywilizacja wieku Oświecenia by Pierre Chaunu

Rodowody Cywilizacji

40 books — 3 voters

In Search of Respect by Philippe Bourgois

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisław Malinowski

Good Ethnography

141 books — 103 voters

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“ Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found ...more ”
― Frank K. Salter, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration

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“ Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found ...more ”
― Frank Salter, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration

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