Altamira Press imprint: 384 books
Lost in the Museum
Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried—along with the objects—in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Moses...
Theorizing Religions Past
Archaeology, History, and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omodes of religiosityO theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal features...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1938–1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938–1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of documents—including...
Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam
Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites...
Equality and Economy
The Global Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Anthropologist Michael Blim identifies equality as the key global issue of our time, the value above all others that will improve human well-being. Using it as a measure for policy, he demonstrates how equality can be operationalized and change how our economies function, both in the United States...
Worlds of Gender
The Archaeology of Women's Lives Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South...
The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Pamela Willoughby provides a wide-ranging synthesis of current knowledge about the evolution of fully modern humans in Africa during the Middle Palaeolithic / Middle Stone Age. According to most scholars, our modern ancestors first emerged in Africa and then spread throughout the habitable world....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays—by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others—are collected in this volume,...
Three World Cuisines
Italian, Mexican, Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China: the independent domestication of crops in each, the social, political, and technological developments that gave rise to each cuisine, and cooking in...
Everyday Arias
An Operatic Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company. In order to show us how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted, he takes us on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the...
Key Themes in Qualitative Research
Continuities and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Key Themes in Qualitative Research is an attempt by three well-respected ethnographic researchers to present a balanced view of qualitative methodology and research. The book is structured around classic texts, written by methodological pioneers, which comprise the basic foundation of modern qualitative...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Although W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant educational thinkers of the twentieth century, many are still unaware of his relevance in this field. DuBois on Education corrects this oversight by collecting Du Bois's major writings on education in one volume. Together these selections powerfully...
History in the Making
The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Eastern Subarctic has long been portrayed as a place without history. Challenging this perspective, History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic charts the complex and dynamic history of this little known archaeological region of North America. Along the way, the book explores...
The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
'A True North Britain' in the Southern Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout...