Altamira imprint: 416 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
This authoritative collection provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to team-based qualitative research. The authors are social scientists and health researchers with extensive experience in this rapidly expanding field. Qualitative research has become increasingly interdisciplinary and...
by Lisa D. Brush
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2003
States are where the power lies, and power is gendered. With these simple statements, Lisa Brush turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect. Her gender lens allows a clear assessment of the...
by Marit K. Munson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest argues that archaeologists should study ancient artifacts as artwork, as applying the term 'art' to the past raises new questions about artists, audiences,...
The Tapestry of Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly,...
How the Bible Works
An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
What do evangelicals believe when they 'believe in the Bible?' Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals continue to believe that there is a stable text—'the Bible'—which is the authoritative word of God and an essential guide to their everyday lives. To understand...
Anthropology and Migration
Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. It has been estimated at the turn of the millennium that 160 million people are living outside of their country of birth or citizenship. The author analyzes macro and...
Totems and Teachers
Key Figures in the History of Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Sydel Silverman presents a long-awaited second edition of this fascinating classic work, originally published in 1981. Eleven distinguished anthropologists offer an insiders' reflection on nine prominent figures who helped shape the discipline. This is one of few books that traces the theoretical...
Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers...
Fiction and Social Research
By Ice or Fire
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1998
Fiction and Social Research brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. At the intersections of fiction, ethnography, and cultural studies, these essays demonstrate narratives that simultaneously enrich...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement pattern, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography,...
by Herbert Blumer
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
In this posthumous volume, renowned sociologist Herbert Blumer analyzes George Herbert MeadOs position in the study of human conduct. Engaged with MeadOs work for over half a century, Blumer explored MeadOs ideas for developing the theoretical and methodological position of symbolic interactionism,...
African Connections
Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2005
From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. More than a passive vessel manipulated by external empires, the African experience has been a complex mix of internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical...
Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World
An Anthropological Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through...
Gang Cop
The Words and Ways of Officer Paco Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Paco Domingo is a street cop, a gang cop, a composite figure derived from criminologist Malcolm Klein's real observations, actual incidents, and verbatim court testimony in over 40 years of police and gang research. Klein, well-known criminologist and police consultant, tells the story of Domingo,...