Altamira Press: 384 books
Collaboration in Archaeological Practice
Engaging Descendant Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice, prominent archaeologists reflect on their experiences collaborating with descendant communities (peoples whose ancestors are the subject of archaeological research). They offer philosophical and practical advice on how to improve the practice of archaeology by actively involving native peoples and other interested groups in research.
Spiritual Transformation and Healing
Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner's new volume is unique in exploring the meaning of spiritual transformation and healing with new research from a scientific perspective. An interdisciplinary group of contributors-anthropological, psychological, medical, theological, and biological scientists-investigate...
Modes of Religiosity
A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the...
Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora
Inner-City Youth and the New Global Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the...
Ethnography
A Way of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct...
Vicos and Beyond
A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social,...
Textile Economies
Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textiles are a material element of society...
Globalization, Health, and the Environment
An Integrated Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global bionetwork....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly,...
The Rise of Anthropological Theory
A History of Theories of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2001
The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition...
by Edward C. Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Far from being the province of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery, indigenous understanding of contagious disease in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world very often parallels western concepts of germ theory, according to the author. Labeling this 'indigenous contagion theory (ICT),' Green synthesizes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2003
Today's archaeologists and law practitioners must have an increased awareness of legal issues pertaining to historic preservation and cultural resource management (CRM). Archaeological sites and finds are non-renewable resources inciting numerous legal debates based upon claims of legitimacy and ownership....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and...
System, Structure, and Contradiction
The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided...