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  • Frobenius-Institut  (14)
  • Ethn. Museum Berlin
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (14)
  • Anthropologie, soziale  (11)
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  • Frobenius-Institut  (14)
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  • 1
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    Skills of the "unskilled" : work and mobility among Mexican migrants (2015)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-28373-2 (paperback) , 0-520-28372-4 (cloth) , 978-0-520-28373-2 (paperback) , 978-0-520-28372-5 (cloth) , 978-0-520-95950-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 300 Seiten
    Keywords: USA Nordamerika ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Arbeit ; Arbeit, informelle ; Fremder ; Landarbeiter ; Mexiko ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Guanajuato (Bundesstaat, Mexiko)
    Abstract: Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the ?Unskilled? reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover these migrants? lifelong human capital and identify mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, occupational mobility, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Are the "Unskilled," Really? -- 2. Learning Skills in Communities of Origin -- 3. Mobilizing Skills and Migrating -- 4. Transferring Skills, Reskilling, and Laboring in the United States -- 5. Returning Home and Reintegrating into the Local Labor Market -- 6. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 271-293
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  • 2
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    When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the US-Mexico borderlands (2014)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-27677-2 (hardback) , 978-0-520-27678-9 (Paperback) , 978-0-520-95718-3 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß), Karten
    Series Statement: California Series in Public Anthropology
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Rausch- und Genußmittel ; Schmuggel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Armut ; Mobilität, soziale ; Kriminalität ; Kultursoziologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico's north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands, traces of the drug trade are everywhere: from gang violence in cities to drug addiction
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Life at the Edges of the War on Drugs -- 1. Narco-Wives, Beauty Queens, and a Mother's Bribes -- 2. "When I Wear My Alligator Boots" -- 3. "A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist" -- 4. The View from Cruz's Throne -- 5. Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full -- 6. "Now They Wear Tennis Shoes" -- Conclusion: Puro pa'delante Mexico -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-217
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  • 3
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    Beyond the borderlands : migration and belonging in the United States and Mexico (2011)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-26958-3 (hardback) , 978-0-520-26959-0 (paperback) , 0-520-26959-4 (pbk.) , 978-0-520-95023-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: USA Pennsylvania ; Mexiko ; Migration ; Integration ; Akkulturation ; Nationalismus ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Guanajuato (Bundesstaat, Mexiko)
    Abstract: Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores the issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. Beyond the Borderlands also completes the circle of migration by following migrant families as they return to their hometown in Mexico, providing an illuminating perspective of the tenuous lives of Mexicans residing in, but not fully part of, two worlds. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: New Borders and Destinations -- 2. "I give thanks to God, after that, the United States": Everyday Life in Textitlán -- 3. La Casa Vacía: Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses -- 4. In the Shadows and Out: Mexican Kennett Square -- 5. Bridging the Community: Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging -- 6. There and Back Again: The Pilgrimage of Return Migration -- 7. The Ambivalent Welcome: Cinco de Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-292
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  • 4
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    Mexico : why a few are rich and the people poor (2010)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-26236-2 (paperback) , 978-0-520-26235-5 (cloth) , 978-0-520-94752-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 287 Seiten
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Mexiko Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Armut ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Geschichte ; Kapitalismus ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, marxistische
    Abstract: Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and considers the weighty role the United States has played, starting with an unjust war that cost Mexico half its territory. Based on Ruiz's decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand where the country has come, why it is where it is today, and where it might go in the future. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Ramblings on Mexican Underdevelopment -- 2. El Mexicano -- 3. The Legacy -- 4. Free Traders and Capitalists -- 5. Colonialism's Thumb -- 6. Lost Opportunity -- 7. Internal Market -- 8. False Miracle -- 9. Death of a Dream -- 10. Nafta -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-273
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  • 5
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    Divided by borders : Mexican migrants and their children (2010)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-26090-0 (pbk.) , 978-0-520-26660-5 (cloth)
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 334 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Migration ; Soziale Beziehung ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialisation ; Familie ; Elternschaft ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Soziologie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ethnographie ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders. What she finds is that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect. Yet, paradoxically, these hardships reinforce family members' commitments to each other. A story both of adversity and the intensity of family ties, Divided by Borders is an engaging and insightful investigation of the ways Mexican families struggle and ultimately persevere in a global economy. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Families -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- 1. Sacrifice -- 2. Ofelia and Germán Cruz: Migrant Time versus Child Time -- 3. Gender and Parenting from Afar -- 4. Armando López on Fatherhood -- 5. Children and Power during Separation -- 6. Middlewomen -- 7. Cindy Rodríguez between Two Worlds -- 8. Divided by Borders -- Appendix A: Research Design -- Appendix B: Family Descriptions -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-302
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  • 6
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    Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men : living in urban Mexico (2002)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-23319-0 (paperback) , 978-0-520-23319-5 (paperback) , 978-0-520-92847-3 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 240 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Mexiko Indianer, Mexiko ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Gesundheitswesen ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Medizin, westliche ; Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Beziehungen Stadt-Land ; Urbanisation ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Guadalajara (Mexiko)
    Abstract: Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community identity as well as the tensions of modernity and its discontents in Mexican society. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Prisms of Belonging and Alternative Modernities -- Chapter 1: Internationalizing Region, Expanding City, Neighborhoods in Transition -- Chapter 2: Migration, Space, and Belonging -- Chapter 3: Religious Discourses and Politics of Modernity -- Chapter 4: Medical Pluralism: Medicina Popular and Medicina Alternativa -- Chapter 5: Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses -- Chapter 6: Neither Married, Widowed, Single, or Divorced: Gender Negotiation, Compliance, and Resistance -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Homeopathic Principles -- Appendix B: Trees of Life and Death -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 217-235
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  • 7
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    Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia : a Manus society in the modern state (1989)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-06389-9 , 978-0-520-06389-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 257 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 7
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Manus ; Manus ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Ethnographie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: Tables, Maps, Figures, and Diagrams -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Problem of Persistence—Precolonial Forms in Postcolonial Life -- 1 Ponam Island, Manus Province -- 2 History of Ponam Island -- 3 Local Production: Ponam Fishing -- 4 Local Circulation: Ponam Trade -- 5 Migration and Remittance -- 6 Internal Exchange -- 7 Conclusions: Colonization, Articulation, and the Evolution of Ponam Society -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-253
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  • 8
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    The _gender of the gift : problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia (1988)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-06423-2 , 978-0-520-06423-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 422 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 6
    Keywords: Melanesien Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Soziale Rolle ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Anthropological Strategies -- 2. A Place in the Feminist Debate -- PART ONE -- 3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the New Guinea Highlands -- 4. Domains: Male and Female Models -- 5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims -- 6. Work: Exploitation at Issue -- PART TWO -- 7. Some Definitions -- 8. Relations which Separate -- 9. Forms which Propagate -- 10. Cause and Effect -- CONCLUSION -- 11. Domination -- 12. Comparison -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index - Subject Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 387-405
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  • 9
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    The _heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality (1988)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-06132-2 , 978-0-520-06132-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 322 Seiten, 4 ungzählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 5
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Ethnie, Neuguinea ; Melanesier ; Foi ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziales Leben ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Verwandtschaft
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ethnographic Setting -- 3. The Responsibility of Males -- 4. Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi -- 5. The Solicitude of Affines -- 6. Metaphor and Substitution -- 7. Obviation and Myth -- 8. Intersexual Mediation -- 9. Female Reproductivity -- 10. The Anxiety of Affines -- 11. Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity -- 12. The Hidden Myth -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 307-313"This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation, completed while a research scholar in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University." (Acknowledgements) , Ph.D. theses, The Australian National University, 1983, online verfügber unter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116320
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  • 10
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    Return to the high valley : coming full circle (1986)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-05664-7 , 978-0-520-05664-0 , 0-520-06468-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-520-06468-3 /Pbk.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 269 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 4
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Gorokan ; Feldforschung ; Ethnographie ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Background to the Book and Its People -- ONE: Coming Home -- TWO: In Memoriam Makis -- THREE: Scenes from a Changing World -- FOUR: The New Generation -- FIVE: Full Circle -- Index
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  • 11
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    Ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia (1984)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0-520-05037-1 , 978-0-520-05037-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 409 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 2
    Keywords: Melanesien Papua-Neuguinea ; Sambia, Neuguinea ; Homosexualität ; Mann ; Schwuler ; Initiation ; Sexualität ; Identität, sexuelle ; Politisches System ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Description / Table of Contents: Editor's Preface -- 1. Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia, 1862-1983: An Introduction, Gilbert H. Herdt -- 2. Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis, Michael R. Allen -- 3. The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture, J. Van Baal -- 4. Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture, Gilbert H. Herdt -- 5. The Nama Cult Recalled, Kenneth E. Read -- 6. Male Couples in New Guinea, Eric Schwimmer -- 7. The Ritual Meaning of Homosexuality and Pedophilia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jaya, Laurent Serpenti -- 8. Growth and Decay: Bedamini Notions of Sexuality -- Arve Sorum -- 9. Variations on a Sociosexual Theme in Melanesia, Shirley Lindenbaum -- Bibliography -- Contributors-- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 362-389
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  • 12
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    Hindus of the Himalayas : ethnography and change (1974)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: LVII, 440 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: second edition, revised and enlarged, second printing
    Keywords: Himalaya Indien ; Nord-Indien ; Adivasi ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziales Leben ; Ethnographie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sirkanda 〈Stadt, Indien〉
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  • 13
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    Plants, animals, and man in the outer Leeward Islands, West Indies : an ecological study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla (1965)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 184 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: University of California Publications in Geography volume 18
    Keywords: Leeward Islands Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Aruak ; Karibe ; Ethnographie ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Humanökologie ; Umweltbelastung ; Ethnobotanik ; Geographie ; Anthropogeographie
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The "limestone Caribbees" -- Part One. The Present -- Climate -- Physique and soils -- Present vegetation -- Animal life -- Part Two. The Past -- Aboriginal times -- Explorers and buccaneers -- Early colonial times: 1632-1700 -- Mid-colonial time: 1700-1850 -- Late colonial times: 1850-1960 -- Part Three. The Future -- Degradation or conservation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Systematic list of plants mentioned in the text -- Appendix B. Index to common names of plants mentioned in the text -- Literature cited -- Plates
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 158-164
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  • 14
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    Nicoya : a cultural geography (1958)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: Seite 195-259 , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: University of California Publications in Geography volume 12, no. 3
    Keywords: Costa Rica Choroteke ; Ethnographie ; Ethnobotanik ; Materielle Kultur ; Anthropogeographie ; Nicoya
    Description / Table of Contents: The physical setting -- Historical background -- Settlement and land use -- Crops and animals and their care -- Dwellings, furnishings, imlements, and vehicles -- Nicoyan diet -- Handicraft and the uses of plants -- Comments and conclusions
    Note: Based in part on thesis, University of California
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