Books - tribal cultures

NATIVE AMERICA:
In Search of Eden - Leo Hamalian - first hand reports of America
Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier by Hugh Brody (from In These Times) (orig 1982)
The Road of Life and Death - Paul Radin, Mark Van Doren (NY: Pantheon 1945) - transcription of the Winnebago Medicine Rite
The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian - Paul Radin (NY: Dover 1963)
Dwellers at the Source - Webb & Weinstein (photos of Southwest Indians)
Seven Arrows - Storm
Book of the Hopi - Waters
The Year of the Hopi by Joseph Mora , Frederick Dockstader , Tyrone Stewart (NY: Rizzoli 1979 - $12.50) - good photos
A Cycle of the West: The Song of Three Friends, the Song of Hugh Glass, the Song of Jed Smith, the Song of the Indian Wars, the Song of the Messiah
- John Gneisenau Neihardt (poetry) (did Black Elk Speaks 1932)
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Future of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations - Jerry Mander
The Curtis Collection
Traditions of De-coo-dah. And antiquarian researches comprising extensive explorations, surveys,
and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America by William Pidgeon (NY: Horace Thayer - 1858)
Indian Women of the Western Morning; Their Life in Early America by John Upton Terrell (NY: Dial Press 1974)
Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Nierhammer (Collier Books 1977)
The Sacred Pipe - Joseph Epes Brown
Sun Chief - Leo Simmons ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press 1942)
Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians - Dennis Tedlock (Dial)
The Winnebago as Described by Themselves (Special Pub of the Bollingen Foundation - 1949)
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
The Complete How-to Book of Indiancraft - W. Ben Hunt (Collier Books 1973) - tanning, sandels, headdress, vests, pipes, totem poles, birch baskets, packsaddles, etc
Broken Ring: The Destruction of the California Indians by Van H. Garner, Ph.D. (Tucson: Western Lore Press 1982)
Deloria: God is Red

SOUTH AMERICA:
Miguel Serrano: The Serpent of Paradise / The Ultimate Flower / The Visits of the Queen of Sheba
Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios
by Cordova-Rice Lamb , F. Bruce Lamb , Manuel Cordova-Rice (Contributor)
Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl - Tony Shearer (Healdsburg, CA: Naturegraph Publishers 1971)
Paper ISBN 0-911010-74-2 / Cloth ISBN 0-911010-99-8
The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology by Jose Arguelles
Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya -Dennis Tedlock (+see more by him)
Fray Diego Duran - Book of the Gods & Rites & the Ancient Calendar (una interpretación de la cosmovisión mexicana)
Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) by Eduardo H. Galeano
The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition by Roberta H. Markman , Peter T. Markman (Harper SF 1992 - HB $30)
Discovering the Lost Maya Cities - Jack Rau (1960)
Breaking the Maya Code - Michael D. Coe (Thames & Hudson 1992) - saw at Codys 9/93

AFRICA:
*The Decorative Arts of Africa - Louise E. Jefferson (NY: The Viking Press 1973) BUY
The Last Africans - Gert Chesi (Austria: Perlinger-Verlags Ges.m.b.H., 6300 Worgl, Brixentaler Strasse 61 - 1977) beautiful pix
Africans and Their History - Joseph E. Harris , Joseoph E. Harris
Naguib Mahfouz - The Cairo Trilogy, Wedding Song, The Beginning of the End, The Thief & the Dogs
Wole Soyinka
Indigenous African architecture - Rene Gardi
Osiris - E.A. Wallis Budge (Dover 1973)
Island of Isis : Philae, temple of the Nile - William MacQuitty (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1976 - $14.95)
The Sphinx and the Megaliths by John Ivimy
Ananse : The Web of Life in Africa by John Biggers - get this
Tales from Southern Africa by A.C. Jordan (Xhosa) (U.C. Press 1973)

Peoples of the Earth:   Africa from the Sahara to the Zambesi Volume 2 --- http://www.biblio.com/books/7971146.html
Vivid and informative pictures and descriptions of tribes across Africa. 144 pages. Glossary in back that is very informative on each tribe in one small paragraph. H/C is white with black titles. Pictorial Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ethiopia Danakil Somali Sudan West Africa Ghana Liberia Nigeria Dahomey Togo Mali Volta Congo Basin East Africa Kenya Tanzania Uganda. . (Inventory #000694)
Peoples of the Earth - 20 volumes - Danberry Press (A Division of Grolier Enterprises), 1973. http://www.biblio.com/browse_books/title/a/922.html

ASIA:
Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa - W.Y. Evans Wentz (Oxford University Press 1973)
Walter Y. Evans Wentz - The Fairy Faith / The Life of Milarepa / Tibetan Book of the Dead / Tibetan Yoga & Secret Doctrines
The Art of Tantra - Philip Rawson (Conn: NY Graphic Society Ltd 1973)
Indian Mythology - Veronica Ions (London, NY, Sydney, Toronto: Paul Hamlyn/The Hamlyn Publishing Group 1967)
Love Songs of Chandidas: The Rebel Poet - Priest of Bengal --- Deben Bhattacharya (George Allen & Unwin, London 1967)
Art and Culture of Bali - Urs Ramseyer , Hans Hinz (Photographer) - (Oxford U Press 1977) - winged woman on cover

Primitive Art: Franz Boas - Dover Publications Inc

Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman's Story - Douglas Sharon

Stones, bones and skin : ritual and shamanic art
by Anne Trueblood Brodzky (Author), Rose Danesewich (Author), Nick Johnson (Author) [don't I own this one?]
An Arts Canada book / Pub: The Society for Art Publications, Toronto, Ontario 1977 $14.95

The One-Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukoka
Farmers of Forty Centuries : Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan -F. H. King
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - Weston A. Price
Overdeveloped Nations - Leopold Kohr (Author)

Foods the Indians Gave Us - Hays
Green Immigrants - Haughton
Man in Nature: America Before the Days of the White Man by Carl O. Sauer
Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches - Marvin Harris

FROM: Joseph Chilton Pierce: The Magical Child (NY: E.P. Dutton 1977)
Infancy in Uganda - Mary D. Ainsworth (Balitmore: John Hopkins Univ Press 1967)
* Eskimo Realities - Edmund Carpenter (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1973)
p. 38-39 Marcelle Geber: "The Psycho-Motor Development of African Children in the First Year and the Influence of Maternal Behavior"
---------in: Journal of Social Psychology, no. 47 (1958): 185-95
Naked Nomads - George F. Geber (NY: Quadrangle, The NY Times Book Co 1974)
Childhood in China - W. Kessen, ed. (New HaveN: Yale Univ Press 1975)
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowatt (p. 134)
p. 145 - "The problem set for us is not to try to turn back to aboriginal man; that is impossible.
The problem, if we are to survive, is to erase the line between work and play."
p. 213 Journeys Out of the Body - Robert Monroe (teacher of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
p. 46-47, p. 51, recheck p. 83-90, chapter 7, p. 63 !!

books on Africa, recommended by Bill:
Roy Bedichek - Gobi desert (wrote: The Sense of Smell)
lady travelers on West Coast of Africa 1800's --- http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/d/50038/mcms.html
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park (1799)
Barthe (Swiss or German)

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

? Marriage in Tribal Societies - Meyer Fortes

Food Crisis in Prehistory: Over Population and Origins of Agriculture by Mark Nathan Cohen (Yale Univ Press 1977) - for Partners
Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen

Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology by Clifford Geertz (Harper Collins $11.95) - WER Winter 1990 p50

Weight Loss for African-Americans : A "Cultural" Lifestyle Change by Charles "Wsir" Johnson
(I had: The KM-Factor and the art of abdominal training - publisher: Seymour smith, African Arts & Scenes)

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
by Mark J. Plotkin (ethnobotanist with Cons. International)

The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific
by Victoria Ginn , Keri Hulme (Rizzoli) - "photos of tribal dancer in strange scenes with natural backdrops"

Wise Sayings for Boys and Girls by Adebisi T. Aromolaran , Yvonne Browne (Illustrator) (Oakland: Meroe Publishing) - proverbs

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
by Malidoma Patrice Some , L. M. Some

Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
by Jeremy Narby (Editor), Francis Huxley (Editor) - this still looks good

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From a UC lectures series:
Vanishing Cultures:
A Requiem for a Faith (Tibet) (film) --- http://www.hartleyvideos.org/requiem_for_a_faith.htm
Undala (India)
The Tribe That Hides from Man - Adrian Cowell (Amazon)

Mystics and Healers:
Brujo (Mayan)
Eduardo The Healer - Pamela M. Mayne Correia

Ecstatic Trance States:
Bali
Malaysia
Yanomano
West Africa

Native American:
Chumash
Shadow Catcher

War and Peace:
Yanomano
Dead Birds -> New Guinea