Altamira imprint: 416 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the...
The Immigration Crisis
Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2008
Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention...
by Lawrence B. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Ground-penetrating radar is a near-surface geophysical technique that can provide three-dimensional maps and other images of buried archaeological features and associated stratigraphy in a precise way. This book, by the expert in the field, provides the basics of the physics, chemistry, geology, and...
Fantastic Dreaming
The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals...
Collecting Cultures
Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In February 1948, a team of Australians and Americans embarked upon one of the largest scientific expeditions that had ever taken place in Australia. Seventeen men and women journeyed across northern Australia for nine months, investigating the people and environment of the remote region known as...
by Lars Fogelin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
How do archaeologists explore the various dimensions of religion? Lars Fogelin uses archaeological work at Thotlakonda in Southern India as his lens in a broader examination of Buddhist monastic life. He discovers the tension between the desired isolation of the monastery and the mutual engagement...
Strife In the Sanctuary
Religious Schism in a Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
For more than forty years there was a single synagogue in the quiet town of Williamette, Oregon. But then disagreements over gender roles, homosexuality, Israeli politics, and other issues tore the synagogue in two. Where there was once one Jewish community under one roof, there are now two hostile...
by Ph. D Milne, Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and interrogating...
Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This is Book 5 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Treating analysis as both a mechanical and a cognitive process, Book 5 begins by describing why analysis and interpretation of data are necessary. In the first two chapters the book points out the importance of beginning ethnographic...
Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production,...
Uprising of Hope
Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas...
by Bob Beatty, Claudia J. Nicholson, Patricia Anne Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Effectively managing people, facilities, and partnerships can make or break an institution. Museum operations encompasses responsibility for the maintenance of your structure, the safety of your visitors, and the security of your staff and collections. This behind-the-scenes administrative effort...
Financing Nonprofits
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory...
Gaining Access
A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of access affects what information is available to the researcher. Despite its importance, the literature on qualitative methods has not yet provided an...