Altamira Press: 384 books
Lives in Context
The Art of Life History Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2001
The reflexive turn in qualitative research has transformed the process of doing life history research. No longer are research subjects examined through the lens of the all-knowing but supposedly invisible researcher. As Ardra Cole and Gary Knowles point out in this fresh introduction to conducting...
The Indus Civilization
A Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable...
Ambiguous Images
Gender and Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
What does rock art say about gender and how can our understanding of gender shape the way that we view rock art? A significant contribution to the relatively unexplored field of gender in rock art, this volume contains a wealth of information for archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians...
Shamanism and the Ancient Mind
A Cognitive Approach to Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
Pearson brings a cogent, well-argued case for the understanding of much prehistoric art as shamanistic practice. Using the theoretical premises of cognitive archaeology and a careful examination of rock art worldwide, Pearson is able to dismiss other theories of why ancient peoples produced art_totemism,...
Incarceration Nation
Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America,...
Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age
Tradition Faces the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention. While more-covered religions emerge as powerful transnational forces, Eastern Orthodoxy appears doggedly local, linked to the ethnicity and land of the now marginalized Eastern Europe. But Eastern...
Durkheim is Dead!
Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
In this sociology textbook/mystery novel, students can join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory. In 1910, the most prominent social theorists in the world gather in London for a conference on the new science of sociology. Things rapidly...
The Cultic Milieu
Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy, violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many...
by Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology.
The Ethnographic I
A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional...
Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and writing skills that all students, instructors, and practitioners should have.It provides priceless insight for the here and now of the Theory and Methods...
Polynesians in America
Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made...
Voices of Foreign Brides
The Roots and Development of Multiculturalism in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea. This shortage, which has become a major social problem, resulted from a mass exodus of Korean women to cities and industrial zones. Korea's efforts to give rural bachelors a chance...
American Catholics
Gender, Generation, and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
How much do American Catholics still identify with the Catholic Church? Do they agree with the Church's teachings, and how often do they participate in its sacraments? What do they think it takes to be a good Catholic? What do they consider to be the Church's core teachings? How do they believe issues...