Altamira imprint: 416 books
by Brian M. Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's...
by Elliot Fratkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to life the voices of those he met, Fratkin invites the reader to experience his cross-cultural friendships with the enigmatic laibon (a diviner and healer of...
by Colleen E. Kriger
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
W.E.B. Du Bois shaped 20th century America to an extent rivaled by few others. The first black to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard, he helped create the discipline of sociology and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Martin Luther King, Jr....
Human Remains
Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
This edited volume contains valuable information for museums and academic institutions concerning the care and conservation of human remains. The editors provide all the essential information required concerning the curation of human remains, from oft posed ethical questions to storage and transport...
Gender in Archaeology
Analyzing Power and Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues—such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy—enrich this...
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical...
Designing an Anthropology Career
Professional Development Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Launching a career is challenging and, at times, intimidating. Designing an Anthropology Career provides undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to identify their career goals and follow through on them. Part I establishes a framework on how to begin designing a career in anthropology...
Symbolic Interaction
An Introduction to Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.
by Harry F. Wolcott, University of Oregon; (d. 2012)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In this long-anticipated second edition of The Art of Fieldwork, prominent anthropologist Harry F. Wolcott updates his original groundbreaking text, which both challenges and petitions anthropology and its practitioners to draw not only on the traditional precepts of science, but also on the richness...
Are All Warriors Male?
Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written...
The Second Generation
Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural...
Chronicling Cultures
Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents—the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among others....
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education
Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective,...