Drawing on her three years of field work in the Balgo Hills during the 1980s and on recent ethnographic literature, Poirier (anthropology, U. Laval, Quebec) explains dialectical aspects of Australian Aboriginal so

Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn in

The question of how the world was first peopled by modern humans is one of the most controversial in science. This book presents new findings that radically challenge our existing views of humanity's global migration.