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“Sure,” Fisher replied. “You got twenty bucks?” “For what?” the startled runner asked. For crimes against humanity. For the fact that “white guys” had taken advantage of the Tarahumara and other indigenous people for centuries, Fisher would explain. And if you don’t like it, too bad: “I couldn’t care less about the ultra community,” Fisher would
... See moreChristopher McDougall • Born to Run
The three volumes of Suzuki’s Essays in Zen Buddhism are an unsystematic collection of scholarly papers on various aspects of the subject, enormously useful for the advanced student but quite baffling to the general reader without an understanding of the general principles. His delightful Introduction to Zen Buddhism is rather narrow and
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
“Sanskrit,”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
Saberes periféricos: Ensayos sobre la antropología en América Latina (Spanish Edition)
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The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump
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disguising military authority as island hospitality.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Historically, the Naxi Dongba religion revered nature. Water and forests were sacralized, and this permitted the people to manage these communal resources sustainably.