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Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is of use as a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

Presents a sociological framework to understand the responses of men to the changes, challenges, and crises in the social organization of gender. By examining not only what certain groups of men say about gender, but what they do, this book helps to illuminate the various social movements engaged with the politics of masculinity.

This is an abridged student edition which contains the essence of Montagu's argument, its policy implications and his thoughts on contemporary race issues.

This authors of this guide aim to provide a reliable resource and easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that historical editors deal with daily in their profession.

In this call for better public history, Robert Archibald explores the intersections of history, memory and community to illustrate the role of history in contemporary life and how we are active participants in the past.

Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present.

With its updated analysis and treatments of key topics, this new edition is a must-have for archaeologists and students, historic preservationists, tribal governments, and others working with cultural resources.

By weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and with a concept of culture, the author presents an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults.

Planning Successful Museum Building Projects provides comprehensive, practical guidance on planning, financing, implementing, managing, and evaluating all kinds of museum construction projects.

An invaluable resource for students and service practitioners alike, Ethnic Studies Research reflects on important trends in ethnic studies offering a breadth of understanding on critical topics pertaining to the discipline.

Weaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies and discusses the power of human connection. This book shows how citizen engagement and open source solutions could tip the scale toward a better world.

Defining the parameters of social change for Native Nations in the 21st century.

Tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. It is for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in ethnographic research.

This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of 'chiefdoms' by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia.

What makes the 'self'? How is it created, defined, and transformed? Arthur Asa Berger's fascinating, educational whodunit novel unravels the mysteries of cultural studies theory, and more specifically, the complexities of postmodernism and identity.

A text on the academic study of contemporary wicca and paganism throughout the world.

Offers a political battle plan in a fight to designate a local historic district. This title covers what you need to know about the politics of organizing a grassroots campaign and what you have to do to win. It explains how and why historic districts are politically created, It is useful for anyone studying or working in local preservation.

Presenting a cultural ecological study of a Siberian people, the Viliui Sakha, this title describes the local and global forces of modernization that challenge their survival. It is suitable for environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development in Eurasia, and post-Soviet Russia.

Exploring Hindu nationalism from the varied perspectives of its critics in women's activist and Left intellectual circles, its ideologues, supporters, and sympathizers, this book locates Hindutva in a broader culture of critique in which identity movements of different kinds compete for recognition, representation, and rights.

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Chicanas in Charge offers profiles, in the form of oral histories, of the careers of female community and political leaders from the Chicano community in Texas.

This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San JosZ.

This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena- social roles, forms of activities, institutions- across cultures.

Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic, political, and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world.

Presents an analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises. This title is suitable for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

Presents a theory of magical actions based on an array of findings in the cognitive sciences. This book argues that focusing on the underlying cognitive processes not only explains why magical rituals look the way they do, it also supplies insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.

Present a view of the spiritual life of the San people of Kalahari desert, examining the interplay of their cosmology, myth, ritual, and art.

An in depth look at how globalization affects Western and Moslem cultures in Morocco. In the Alterations Series.