Altamira Press: 384 books
Symbols and Meaning
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of...
by Luke Eric Lassiter
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...