Altamira Press: 384 books
Images of the Recent Past
Readings in Historical Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1996
Historical archaeology has been without a definitive, up-to-date collection that reflects the breadth of the field_until now. Orser's book brings together classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the development of the field over the last twenty years, both in North America and throughout...
Assessing Site Significance
A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies....
Values and Valuables
From the Sacred to the Symbolic
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be...
The Pull of the Earth
Participatory Ethnography in the School Garden
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
The Pull of the Earth is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and inspired hope, growth, and community. Filled with photographs, sketches, poetry, and journal entries,...
GroundWork for Community-Based Conservation
Strategies for Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This concise and accessible book will give...
Migration and Economy
Global and Local Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of international and internal migration, of voluntary migration and forced movements due to civil...
Questioning Gypsy Identity
Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature...
by Sarah Deer, Carrie E. Garrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure is the second in a unique series of comprehensive studies of tribal law in the United States. This book examines the complex subject of tribal criminal law and procedure from a tribal perspective_utilizing tribal statutory law, tribal case law, and the cultural values...
Sharing Our Stories of Survival
Native Women Surviving Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women, this book's contributors are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and victims. In the U.S. Native women are more likely than women from any other group to suffer violence,...
Black Intimacies
A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. She challenges the image of a monolithic black population, a legacy of the civil rights...
Women in Antiquity
Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles...
Ancestors and Elites
Emergent Complexity and Ritual Practices in the Casas Grandes Polity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the archaeological data from the site with respect to broader anthropological theories regarding both religious practices and the rise of complex societies....
The Power of the Machine
Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges...