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by Luke Eric Lassiter
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008

A newer edition of this book is available for ordering at the following web address: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759122543 Luke Eric Lassiter's concise introductory text to cultural anthropology offers a fresh and accessible approach for students. His message about the relevance of anthropology...
by H. L. Goodall Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000

Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences. Goodall's distinctive style will engage and energize students, offering them provocative advice and exercises for turning qualitative data and field notes into compelling representations of social life.

Cinderella Story

A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters

by James Haywood Rolling Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. Rolling asks, How do words and images-involving stories and paradigms, past and future, perceptions of beauty and ugliness-become flesh? How are they done and...

Exploring Maya Ritual Caves

Dark Secrets from the Maya Underworld

by Stanislav Chládek
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011

Exploring Maya Ritual Caves offers a rare survey and explication of most of the known ancient Maya ritual caves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The caves were the Maya underworld, where rituals, including animal and human sacrifice, were carried out. The Maya cave cult and mythology, construction...

Politics of Masculinities

Men in Movements

by Michael A. Messner
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1997

The profound changes wrought by the feminist movement were by no means restricted to women. In the years since feminism has taken root, the role of men and masculinity has begun to undergo its own redefinition. Michael A. Messner provides a sociological framework to understand the responses of men...

Performing Black Masculinity

Race, Culture, and Queer Identity

by Bryant Keith Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001

The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies—archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography—to tease out...

Memory in Black and White

Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape

by Paul A. Shackel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2003

As a nation we bring many perspectives to our commemorative places and our ideas may change over time, especially on difficult topics like slavery and racism. Why a place is saved and how it is interpreted to visitors has much to do with our collective memory of the events that took place there. Using...

Anthropologists in Arms

The Ethics of Military Anthropology

by George R. Lucas Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of 'military anthropology'—particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with...

Creating Connections

Museums and the Public Understanding of Current Research

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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004

Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public—a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections...

Turning Points in Qualitative Research

Tying Knots in a Handkerchief

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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004

This is a book of signposts, of key turning points, of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.' Each article reproduced in this volume, edited by leading qualitative methodologists Lincoln and Denzin, represents one of these turning points in qualitative research, a revolution in the way...
by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Tracey A. Laszloffy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005

As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception of racial identity must be developed. A wide divide between academics who research biracial identity, and the everyday world of parents and practitioners...

Food and Social Media

You Are What You Tweet

by Signe Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012

Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people’s lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion...
by Mark McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012

Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity—the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the...
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