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      Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers

      Hortense Powdermaker

      2013 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Powdermaker’s study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological…

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      Life in Lesu: The Study of Melanesian Society in New Ireland

      Hortense Powdermaker

      Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in the late Stone-Age Melanesian society, by the first anthropologist and first white person to live there. Hortense Powdermaker, author of…

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      After Freedom: Cultural Study in the Deep South

      Hortense Powdermaker

      A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and…

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      Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist

      Hortense Powdermaker

      The book is absolutely excellent … a unique fascinating account of the work of one of our leading anthropologists. Colin M. Turnbull

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