Altamira imprint: 416 books

Federal Planning and Historic Places

The Section 106 Process

by Thomas F. King
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2000

Section 106. A critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archeological sites, buildings, and neighborhoods across the country from destruction by Federal projects. And it has let even more be destroyed, or damaged, or somehow changed....

The Home

Its Work and Influence

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michael Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that 'the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement' resonates...
by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...

The Gift of a Bride

A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder

by Serena Nanda
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009

This ethnographically based murder mystery is set within New York City's Indian community. A young Indian woman's arranged marriage brings her to the city to join her husband shortly after her wedding. The plot unfolds as the couple copes with joint family living, sexual and financial issues, and...

The Holocaust in Hungary

Evolution of a Genocide

by Zoltán Vági, László Csősz, Gábor Kádár
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form...
by Bob Beatty, Brenda Granger, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Small museums must adopt policies of financial responsibility and stability if they are to last. Through an organized commitment to transparency and accountability, small museums can achieve sound financial management just like their larger counterparts. This book offers sample fiscal policies, guides...

Visual Anthropology

Essential Method and Theory

by Fadwa El Guindi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004

El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to the methods of visual anthropology and the use of film in cross-cultural research and ethnography. She shows how visual media — photographic, filmic, interactive — is now an accepted part of the anthropological process, a vital tool that reflects and...
by Dougald J.W. O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006

Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia presents a fascinating synthesis of research on the prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, both old and new, Dougald O'Reilly provides a general picture of the events that shaped the region in ancient...

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

by Robert L. Winzeler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography,...

Anthropology of the Performing Arts

Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Anya Peterson Royce
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004

Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry,...

Karaoke Nights

An Ethnographic Rhapsody

by Rob Drew
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001

Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions_possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head-shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate...

Torch Singing

Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf

by Stacy Holman Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2007

In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics...
by Wendy Lower
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011

The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfard’s life, the diary details his attempt to make sense of and resist the event that...
by Patricia Heberer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims. The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis and their...
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