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Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was the enigmatic author of several best-selling books about the mystical teachings of don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from Sonora, Mexico, first introduced to audiences in…China Miéville
Londoner China Miéville is the author of The City & The City, winner of the 2010 Hugo Award for best novel. Since the late 1990s, he's been writing what he calls "weird fiction," a blend of…Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes was the poet laureate of England from 1984 until his death in 1998, but his international fame will always rest on the fact that he was married to poet Sylvia Plath, who killed herself in…incest
(Encyclopedia) incest, sexual relations between persons to whom marriage is prohibited by custom or law because of their close kinship. Ideas of kinship, however, vary widely from group to group,…matriarchy
(Encyclopedia) matriarchy, familial and political rule by women. Many contemporary anthropologists reject the claims of J. J. Bachofen and Lewis Morgan that early societies were matriarchal, although…social science
(Encyclopedia) social science, term for any or all of the branches of study that deal with humans in their social relations. Often these studies are referred to in the plural as the social sciences.…Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead made her career as America's most famous anthropologist with the 1928 publication of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She was a graduate of Barnard College, where she studied…Oldest Human Remains in North America Found
In 1959, the partial skeletal remains of an ancient woman estimated to be 10,000 years old were unearthed in Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the…Ishi Biography
IshiLast of the Yahi tribeBorn: 1860? In August 1911, a silent “wild man” was found walking down from the northeastern California hills. He was brought to the local sheriff, and a member of…Krippendorf's Tribe
Director:Todd HollandWriter:Charlie PetersDirector of Photography:Dean CundeyEditor:John PollMusic:Bruce BroughtonProduction Designer:Scott ChamblissProducer:Larry BreznerTouchstone; PG-13;…Trending
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