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Settlement Ecology
The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture
Canals and Communities
Small-Scale Irrigation Systems
Border Visions
Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States
Where the Dove Calls
The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Riparian Ecosystem Recovery in Arid Lands
Strategies and References
Peyote
Dry whiskey, Divine herb, Devil's root, Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to become complete. For chemists, pharmacologists, and psychiatrists, the plant is ...
Hopi Basket Weaving
Artistry in Natural Fibers
Demons and Development
The Struggle for Community in a Sri Lankan Village
An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating
The Planet Mars
Twenty years after the Viking missions of the '70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period between 1996 and 2003, and it is likely that human explorers will follow soon after--perhaps by the middle of the twenty-first century. When they do, they will owe much to the Mars of romance, to ...
