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Brian Fagan investigates the impact that European contact had on a number of societies around the world. Each case describes the pre-European culture, the short term impact of contact and the enduring changes caused by the clash of cultures.

Examines some of the fundamental facets of gender as they intersect with the dynamics of social, political, and economic change in Cyprus, beginning with the earliest traces of human habitation on the island to the final phases of the Bronze Age.

Offers insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. This book analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing fieldwork in Portugal and many other countries. It is suitable for instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, and immigration studies.

Gives useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this form of research.

Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series challenges the notion that care-giving is a 'natural' pattern and demonstrates how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the authors address complex issues about caring, making them accessible to undergraduate students and lay people.

Reveals the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. This book examines the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy.

Analyzes and advocates for community-based natural resource management. This book offers an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. It is of interest to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, and cultural geography.

Focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (ethno) nation that influence the dynamics of human rights conflicts in different parts of the world. This collection of essays investigates human rights conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

A discussion of the most widely used method for archaeological prospecting, covering the technical background of magnetometry and explaining what is measured and how this knowledge is used in archaeological surveys.

Ancestors and Elites examines the relationship between emergent social complexity and changing ritual practices at the prehispanic site of Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Free-Choice Learning and the Environment explores the theoretical, practical, and policy aspects of free-choice environmental education for learners of all ages.

Free-Choice Learning and the Environment explores the theoretical, practical, and policy aspects of free-choice environmental education for learners of all ages.

Reveals a portrait of Zapatistas of south-eastern Mexico struggling with self-determination on every level. This book is suitable for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies.

Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. This book attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the physical back into gerontology's study of aging.

Reveals the social inequalities that often represent significant threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women. This book defines an anthropology of policy concerned with decision-making and the impact of health policy on human lives. It is of interest to researchers and practitioners in medical anthropology.

This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

This text traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, and argues for the use of a scientific, behavioural-based approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism.

This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.

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Seeking to be faithful to the original Greek, this title presents a English translation. It offers a re-imagining of the Christian scriptures and our relationship to them.

Focuses on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural, and social forces. This work considers issues of international and internal migration; of transnational and multilocal networks through which remittances and other flows take place; and of migrants as active agents.

Examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. This volume discusses the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition.

Offers the political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. This book is suitable for social activists and instructors in Latino politics, US race relations, and social movements.

Introductory guide to the analysis of plant phytoliths in archaeology.

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy.

Illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. This book considers the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context. It examines issues of historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy.

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world. This volume offers analyses on the theory and practice of development.

The foundational books of the Torah - "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers" and "Deutoronomy" - form the basis of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Seeking to be faithful to the original Greek, this title presents a English translation. It offers a re-imagining of the Christian scriptures and our relationship to them.