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Books published by publisher Smithsonian Institution Press

  • Mohave Ethnopsychiatry: The Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe

    George DEVEREUX

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Institution Press, March 15, 1969)
    None
  • Handbook of North American Indians: Subarctic

    June Helm, William C. Sturtevant

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Feb. 17, 1982)
    Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific.
  • The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg

    Harold G. Dick, Douglas H. Robinson

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, Jan. 1, 1986)
    Gathers information about the design, construction, and operation of the two German dirigibles between 1934 and 1938
  • Eastern Chipmunks: Secrets of Their Solitary Lives

    Lawrence Wishner

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, Oct. 1, 1982)
    Describes the history and behavior of the chipmunk and summarizes the observation of three generations of chipmunk families on a one and a half acre Virginia lot
  • Engines of change: The American industrial revolution, 1790-1860

    Brooke Hindle

    Paperback (Smithsonian Institution Press, Aug. 16, 1986)
    Engines of Change is based on a Smithsonian Institution exhibit of the same title. The principal theme is the importance of technological transfer. It ventures beyond discussion of machines and tools to consider the effects of geographical dimension, natural resources, business practices, the role of women, ethnic diversity, and education. In this work the authors present a pictorial history of the Industrial Revolution in America, derived from surviving artifacts, historical prints, and other graphic materials. By means of this work they bring about a fuller understanding of the major developments in American technology, business, economics, and labor, tracing the migration of technology and technologists from Europe to America, where skilled craftsmen—combined with the richness of natural resources and the energy and innovations released by the young nation's political freedoms—enabled industrialism to flourish.
  • By Joy Hakim - Story of Science: Newton at the Center

    Joy Hakim

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Institution Press, July 19, 2005)
    None
  • Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians

    MILANICH JERALD T

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Institution Press, Feb. 17, 1999)
    None
  • Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator

    Doris L. Rich

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, Sept. 1, 1993)
    Traces the life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African-American woman aviator, who dreamed of opening a flight school for African Americans but died in an crash in 1926. By the author of Amelia Earhart: A Biography.
  • Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in the West Sepik

    Bernard Juillerat

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Shooting the Sun reinterprets the Ida ritual of the Umeda society of Papua New Guinea, described in Alfred Gell's modern classic Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries: Umeda Society, Language and Ritual (1975). Bernard Juillerat and eight other distinguished scholars, including Gell, apply a range of theoretical constructs - Freudian, Marxist, gender-based, and Lacanian, among others - to Ida ceremonies and the similar Yangis ritual of the neighboring Yafar people.Shooting the Sun begins with Juillerat's description and analysis of the Yangis ritual. Drawing on a secret exegesis provided by Yafar experts, Juillerat interprets the Ida-Yangis rituals as a reformulation of the oedipal ontogenetic scenario, with shooting arrows toward the sun as the ritual's finale, representing a decisive separation from the mother's womb (the earth) and the appropriation of the mother's breast (the sun).Five anthropologists and two psychoanalysts - including Andre Green, Francois Manenti, Marilyn Strathern, Richard Werbner, and Roy Wagner - comment on Juillerat's and Gell's analyses. Juillerat assesses the proposed theoretical concepts, reconsidering Yangis and the mythology that sustains it in light of this assessment and providing some recently uncovered ethnographic material. Shooting the Sun is significant both for the ethnographic data it contains and for the theoretical sophistication it displays.
  • Ethics on the Ark: Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation

    Bryan G. Norton, Michael Hutchins, Terry L. Maple, Elizabeth F. Stevens

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, July 1, 1995)
    Ethics on the Ark presents a passionate, multivocal discussion - among zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers - about the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem is the most important focus in conservation efforts. Contributors represent all sides of the issues. Some advocate proposals to increase zoos' work in captive breeding programs. Others call for zoos to turn away from exotic, charismatic species and focus instead on community education programs aimed at protecting local fauna and habitats. Still others contend that zoos ought to be abolished.Moving from the fundamental to the practical, from biodiversity to population regulation, from animal research to captive breeding, Ethics on the Ark represents an important gathering of the many fervent and contentious viewpoints shaping the wildlife conservation debate.
  • MARY CASSATT: A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE GRAPHIC WORK

    Adelyn Dohme Breeskin

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Institution Press, March 15, 1979)
    Catalogue Raisonne of Mary Cassatt's complete print ouvre; THE seminal Print reference on Cassatt by Adelyn Breeskin. Second Revised Edition, Smithsonian Institution, 1979, Hardcover: 208 pages; ISBN:0874742846
  • Amelia Earhart: A Biography

    Doris L. Rich

    Hardcover (Smithsonian Inst Pr, Dec. 1, 1989)
    A biography of the famous aviatrix who disappeared in the South Pacific on an around-the-world flight attempt in 1937