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Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century
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Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Richard Feinberg's updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertook fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. He explores dominant cultural features, including language, kinship, marriage, politics, and religion topics that align with subject matter covered in introductory anthropology courses and he looks at some of the challenges Anutans face in the 21st century. Like many other peoples living on small, remote islands, Anutans strive to maintain traditional values while at the same time becoming involved in the world market economy. In all, Feinberg gives listeners magnificent material for studying the relations between demography, environment, culture, and society in this changing world.
The book is published by Kent State University Press.
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- Duración: 1 h y 34 m
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The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean examines the culture and history of the indigenous groups and what happened when they came into contact with the Europeans. You will learn about the Arawak like never before.
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good content, terrible pronunciation by reader.
- De takajej en 11-04-19
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Unbowed
- A Memoir
- De: Wangari Maathai
- Narrado por: Chinasa Ogbuagu
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Wangari Maathai has been fighting for environmental responsibility and democracy in her native Kenya for over 35 years. Unbowed recounts the incredible journey that culminated in her appointment to Parliament in 2002. Despite repeated jailings, beatings, and other obstacles along the way, Maathai created the Green Belt Movement and never relented in her goal to bring democracy to Kenya.
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Amazing story of this woman, but missing something
- De Peter en 06-29-11
De: Wangari Maathai
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Sugar in the Blood
- A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
- De: Andrea Stuart
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
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In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way, binding together ambitious White entrepreneurs and enslaved Black workers in a strangling embrace....
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A sweet, historical gem
- De Adrian en 06-29-13
De: Andrea Stuart
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Never Caught
- De: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household, he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and eight slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. As he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't get his arms around: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Washington decided to circumvent the law.
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Wonderful audiobook
- De Brad Turner en 03-07-17
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Marriage, a History
- How Love Conquered Marriage
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is - and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the 19th century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship.
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Marriage from a secular feminist's perspective
- De Timothy Hanline en 12-23-19
De: Stephanie Coontz
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- De: Daniel Tudor
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
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Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just 50 years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle.
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Amazing book
- De Antoine en 12-14-18
De: Daniel Tudor
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The Invisible History of the Human Race
- How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
- De: Christine Kenneally
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
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In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and some popular television shows celebrate ancestry, this is the first book to explore how everything from DNA to emotions to names and the stories that form our lives are all part of our human legacy.
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Who are you really. Who am I?
- De Annie M. en 10-28-14
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Strangers from a Different Shore
- A History of Asian Americans
- De: Ronald Takaki
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 24 h y 41 m
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. This is a powerful and moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
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Eye opening to the way immigrants are treated
- De Amazon Customer en 10-06-20
De: Ronald Takaki
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Unfamiliar Fishes
- De: Sarah Vowell
- Narrado por: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as crucial to our nation's identity, a year when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba and then the Philippines, becoming a meddling, self-serving, militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing.
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Sarah Vowell does it again!
- De Kat en 03-23-11
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
- De: Anton Treuer
- Narrado por: Kaipo Schwab
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What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers-or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
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one of the better books
- De Erica Kerr en 07-14-18
De: Anton Treuer
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Anuta, Second Edition
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- 07-25-17
Discovering a new world - Anuta!
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I believe that the structure of the book was pretty much like a text book, which is why I felt that it covered uninteresting aspects of the life their in detail, while some of the parts I would have like to explore more, were briefly described. I would have enjoyed it more if it focused more on drawing comparisons between western lifestyles and the lifestyle of the Anutans.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
It was a very interesting topic because we often do not get to learn about new cultures and new people, so I really appreciated this opportunity. The style of writing was easy and accessible and I often felt that the delivery of the narrator was on point when conveying feelings of surprise, shock and affection.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
I often felt that the delivery of the narrator was on point when conveying feelings of surprise, shock and affection. I disliked that the narrator seemed to be pulling some words (saying them in slow motion) at certain intervals.
Do you think Anuta, Second Edition needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
It would be interesting to see how they have adapted to globalisation and the internet and all the benefits (and harms) of technology. Maybe a 2017 follow up would be interesting to draw conclusions about the effects of advancement in technology on a seemingly happy community.
Any additional comments?
I was given this free copy by Audiobook Boom in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
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A Utopian Society
I really enjoyed this audiobook, which was written by an anthropologist who lived with and extensively studied the people of Anuta, starting in the 1970s. The author periodically returned to Anuta in the decades that followed to maintain relationships and to continue his studies of the Anutan culture and way of life.
This audiobook is informative, detailed and interesting. It provides the listener with an extremely clear understanding of the Anutan people and their culture. The Anutans, a Polynesian people who live on a small island in the Pacific, maintain their existence though fishing and small-scale farming, and by adhering to a communal culture governed by "aropa", or love for others. The bonds of "aropa" are typically formed through blood or marriage ties, but can also form when outsiders adhere to Anutan culture and commit to demonstrating "aropa" to a group of Anutans. Any person who adheres to these things-including total strangers-are COMPLETELY accepted into the Anutan clan as FULL family members-with all of the benefits and obligations that are given to anyone else in the clan. Even the nomenclature used with a person who's been absorbed into the clan is identical to that which is used to describe blood relatives who occupy the same role (e.g. brother, daughter, etc.). For Anutans, expressions of "aropa" are similar to the way other cultures express love for others (e.g. kindness, affection, loyalty, etc.), but Anutans also view "aropa" as an economic relationship that, for the most part equates to "what's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine".
Interestingly, Anutans demonstrate Christian principles of love, generosity and kindness better than most Christians, and freely adhere to the socialist principles of collectivism and distribution of wealth better than most Marxists! And they do it freely!
In my opinion, the narrator didn't do a very good job narrating the beginning of the audiobook-but he improved over the course of the book. By the midpoint, he was enjoyable to listen to. My primary complaint was the author's overuse of Anutan terminology in the book. The use of certain Anutan vocabulary did contribute positively to the audiobook, like when the author sought to communicate important Anutan concepts to the reader/listener, especially when those words were repeated often. However, the author also included Anutan vocabulary for things that were NOT vital to the story; this, in my opinion, took away from the audiobook-especially when those words were only used one time.
I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review.
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A fantastic view into a small Polynesian island
As a young anthropologist, Dr Feinberg conducts his first field work in the small, isolated Polynesian island of Anuta. He describes in detail the relationship networks, the lifestyle and world views of the nearly self sustaining islanders, as well as creating lifelong friends. He returns to the island a couple of decades later, documenting the changes caused by greater contact with other islands, the introduction of outside concepts and technology, as well as how the Anutans fare when living in other societies.
This book condenses a lifetime of scholarly work in an easily accessible manner for the lay reader. The only downside to the audio format are the somewhat complicated kin structures, which would have been easier to follow in writing (and preferably with pen and paper to sketch out the groups).
Unfortunately, the narrator didn't do this book justice. Too often, he drawled out words and sentences in a manner that I couldn't help interpreting as somewhat smug and self satisfied, in an odd contrast to the personality Dr Feinberg shows in his writing.
I received a copy from the author in return for this unbiased review.
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