The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge and shamanic traditions cope with the global geopolitics of an insatiable natural res...

The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year“A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.”—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review“The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the i...

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 2012 and reprinted in 2026, this 423-page, E-BOOK, 8 1/2" x 11", indexed, ISBN 978-0-94499-999-5. This book covers the creation of Lincoln County in 1779 from Tryon and Burke Counties. It features abstracts of warrants and surveys from shucks (files). Each survey includes the name of the new landowner and acreage, an abstract of the warrant with its number and date as found in the shuck, the survey date and surveyor followed by an abstract of the descri...

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 1989 and reprinted in 2026, 210-page E-BOOK (8 1/2" x 11", with index, ISBN #978-1-63914-900-1. This book contains abstracts of materials on the sale of land and property confiscated from Loyalists in North Carolina being sold to local patriots. Researchers will find genealogical information on individuals from the following counties: Anson, Beaufort District, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chatham, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dobbs, Duplin...

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 2014 and reprinted in 2026, this 332-pages, E-BOOK (8 1/2" x 11", with index, ISBN #978-1-63914-998-8. This book covers Lincoln County, which was formed in 1779 from Tryon and Burke Counties. It features abstracts of warrants and surveys preserved in shucks (files). Each survey includes the name of the new landowner and acreage, an abstract of the warrant with its number and date, the survey date and surveyor along with a summary of the survey descripti...

By: Dr. A.B. Pruitt, Pub. 2023, reprinted 2026, 196 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-981-0. New Hanover County was created in 1729 from New Hanover Precinct or Bath County. This book contains information about divisions of estates and dower allotments from 1800-1934. As required by law, there were 12 men appointed by the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions or Supreme Court to allot the dower of a deceased man. There were no cases allotting property to a husband of a deceased wife. T...

Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:human rights and environmental degradationnation-s...

Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the...

Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from other types of stone, surveys various types of Chahk thunderbolt deities and thei...

Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical inspiration, the sea...and discovered a new way of seeing, as the ocean became a living metap...

The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to KnowFor thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and mor...

"I am about to tell you a most unusual story, a chronicle of something that happened to me while I was living on the flank of an active volcano on the island of Hawai'i. I'm a scientist. I mention this because I do not feel that I was in any way predisposed for what was about to occur. In fact, my scientific training would seem to have preprogrammed me against such an experience." -- From SpiritwalkerThe astonishing true story of an anthropologist's quest into a s...