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Anthropology - Native American Ishi (In Two Worlds) Theodora Kroeber
"It is nearly a half century since Ishi startled the Modern World by accidently wandering into it
from the Stone Age," writes Kroeber. "There follows an account of all that is surely and truly known of him.
What he believed and felt and did in the modern world and earlier, in his own world are the
bone beads of his story. The stringing of such of these beads as could be recovered onto a
single string has been my task. Surprisingly, the circle of his life's necklace appears whole
despite its many incompletions."
Anthropology ~ Upper Palaeolithic The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis Williams
The author combines his considerable expertise in anthropology with recent research in neurology
to put together a case for how we became human and began to paint in caves. He discusses what the
animals and symbols on the walls of the caves at
Chauvet, Lascalles and Altamira can tell us about the mystic nature of the ancestral mind.
Anthropology ~ Neolithic Inside the Neolithic Mind by David Lewis Williams and David Pearce
The sequel to The Mind in the Cave, the authors go on to show how the mystic mind developed
in the advent of agriculture in the Near East with its cult buildings, like Gobekli Tepe and Catal Hoyuk, and skull burials.
They argue that neurological patterns hard-wired into the brain help explain the nature of Neolithic art, religion and society.
Anthropology ~ Inuit Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
"Hardest of all," he writes, "was not the severity of the climate, not the intensity of the cold,
not the physical anguish which, often, I endured. The cold was a problem; but a very much more
difficult problem was the Eskimo mentality. There was no getting on with the Eskimo except
on his own terms; and I had to get on with him if I was to live with him. A good part of this book, therefore, is the story of the encounter of two mentalities, and of
the gradual substitution of the Eskimo mentality for the European mentality within myself."
