Altamira imprint: 416 books
California Prehistory
Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory...
Palenque
Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Palenque is one of the best known and oldest Mayan archaeological sites. But recently little has been published on the ongoing work here. Marken's collection brings the archaeological record of Palenque up to date. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from architecture to hieroglyphic texts, from...
Slavery in the Twentieth Century
The Evolution of a Global Problem
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
In her new book, well-known Africanist Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the phenomenal development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years. She demonstrates how the problems of eradication seem greater and more intractable today...
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans
Speaking in Red
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2004
Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health...
Medicine Ways
Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2001
Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of...
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
The Fallacy of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2001
Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence. It presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics...
by Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich...
Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West
Sacred Landscapes in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2004
Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Duane Champagne has been presenting a series of comments on Indian policy, history, and culture since October 2006 in the newspaper Indian Country Today. This book provides a compilation of many of these editorials, plus two chapters not previously published. The contemplative writing by this well-respected...
Ethnic Community Builders
Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century. The authors present interviews of 14 people of various stripes—teachers, politicians, radio personalities—who have been...
Presenting Archaeology in Court
A Guide to Legal Protection of Sites
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting. This brief volume provides practical help to those who wish to use the provisions of ARPA_archaeologists, government land managers, preservation...
Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan
Struggles and Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This exciting new volume from Armando Navarro offers the most current and comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. He examines in-depth topics such as American political culture, electoral politics, demography, and organizational development. Viewing Mexicanos...
by Kenneth E. Sassaman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives...
How Students Understand the Past
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
History and archaeology education is highly valued among modern societies that seek to educate their youth about the past. Yet these areas have been_for the most part_slow to employ the latest advances in education theory and practice. Former classroom teacher and science education specialist M. Elaine...