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Essential Ethnographic Methods
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This is Book 3 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use on a regular basis. It provides ethnographers with tools to answer the principal...
Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This is Book 1 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
The Ethnographer's Toolkit series begins with this primer, which introduces novice and expert practitioners alike to the process of ethnographic research, including answers to questions such as who should and can do ethnography,...
The Zimbabwe Culture
Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming...
Cultural Anthropology
Tribes, States, and the Global System
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas...
Anthropology and Religion
What We Know, Think, and Question
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they have interpreted or explained it since the late nineteenth century. Robert Winzeler’s balanced...
World Ecological Degradation
Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are...
In Pursuit of Gender
Worldwide Archaeological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Written by a distinguished group of feminist archaeologists, In Pursuit of Gender examines the role of gender in archaeology, an area that has long been neglected. The chapters in this volume represent sites and cultures that have been interpreted or reinterpreted from the perspective of gender, exploding...
San Spirituality
Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations_from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New...
Creating Deviance
An Interactionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Creating Deviance is a basic text introductory text for deviance studies. Dotter identifies the convergences between social deviance, the interactionist tradition, and the construction of cultural meaning. He provides an in-depth analysis of the significant theoretical contribution of interactionism...
by Barbara Jane Davy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Pagan Studies is maturing and moving beyond the context of new religious movements to situate itself in within of the study of world religions. Introduction to Pagan Studies is the first and only text designed to introduce the study of contemporary Paganism as a world religion. It examines the intellectual,...
Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between western...
San Francisco
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Francisco's famous restaurant scene has been the subject of books but the full complexity of the city's culinary history is revealed here for the first time....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement is an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work. The authors are intensely committed to developing effective models for participating in the civic renewal movement - through active engagement in community life, in development...
The Reconstructed Past
Reconstructions in the Public Interpretation of Archaeology and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site...