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Lost in the Museum

Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell

by Nancy Moses
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...
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Theorizing Religions Past

Archaeology, History, and Cognition

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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...
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by Alexandra Garbarini
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...
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Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam

Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century

by Erica J. Peters
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...
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Equality and Economy

The Global Challenge

by Michael Blim
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...
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Worlds of Gender

The Archaeology of Women's Lives Around the Globe

by Sarah Milledge Nelson
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...
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by Pamela R. Willoughby
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

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,...
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Three World Cuisines

Italian, Mexican, Chinese

by Ken Albala
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...
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Everyday Arias

An Operatic Ethnography

by Paul Atkinson
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...
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Key Themes in Qualitative Research

Continuities and Changes

by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Amanda Coffey
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

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...
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History in the Making

The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic

by Donald H. Holly Jr., associate professor of anthropology, Eastern Illinois University
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...
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The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820

'A True North Britain' in the Southern Backcountry

by Elizabeth A. Davison
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...
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