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A story of love for those who dont believe. The tale of a broken man, a spiritual woman, the rage of a Delta storm and their brief encounter that lights a passion to last a lifetime. Three Days With Mary is a hauntingly understated love story set in the backdrop of the historic Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Its a story of love that stays with you long after youve finished the last word.
The Dine have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the waning of their sheep-centered economy, Colleen O'Neill argues that Navajo culture persisted. O'Neill's book challenges the conventional notion that the introduction of market capitalism necessarily leads to the destruction of native cultural values. She shows instead that contact with new markets provided the Navajos with ways to diversify their household-based survival strategies. Through adapting to new kinds of work, Navajos actua...