Altamira Press: 384 books
Daughters of the Goddess
Studies of Identity, Healing, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1999
A collection of original essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets, Daughters of the Goddess explores the ways women have abandoned Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text. Among the first...
by Bronwyn Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2000
Weaving together her most influential writings of the 1990s, Bronwyn Davies offers a unique engagement with poststructuralism that defies the boundaries between theory and embodied practice. Whereas poststructuralists are often accused of excessive abstraction, Davies' sophisticated and nuanced discussions...
Using Methods in the Field
A Practical Introduction and Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1998
Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field...
Practicing Archaeology
An Introduction to Cultural Resources Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This comprehensive reference book addresses the questions and problems of cultural resource archaeology for graduate students and practicing archaeological field workers. Neumann and Sanford use their decades of field experience to discuss in great detail the complex processes involved in conducting...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michael Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2002
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood. In this volume, she takes on American society at its core principles: the betterment of our society through the development of our children. Gilman attacks our conventional...
In Search of Naunny's Grave
Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz, 'Naunny' to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo, was a working class woman, daughter of New Mexico Hispanos, and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for Trujillo's experimental ethnography of family relations,...