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Specialized Ethnographic Methods
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
This collection of individually authored chapters provides cutting-edge approaches to ethnography. Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approachcomplements the basic inventory of ethnographic data collection tools...
by Carol R. Ember
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human cultures, or why variation exists. Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands...
The World's Scavengers
Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism development....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with...
Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology
Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
This revised second edition of Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology renews the challenge to anthropologists to engage in a dialogue concerning their commitment to professional ethical conduct. Containing a majority of new chapters, the authors redefine what it means to conduct anthropological...
God from the Machine
Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
'God from the machine' (deus ex machina) refers to an ancient dramatic device where a god was mechanically brought onto the stage to save the hero from a difficult situation. But here, William Sims Bainbridge uses the term in a strikingly different way. Instead of looking to a machine to deliver an...
The Recurring Dark Ages
Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural...
by Marvin Harris, University of Florida
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the strands of his work of the past two decades into a unified, contemporary statement on anthropological theory and practice. In this book, he presents his current views...
Violence and Mental Health in Everyday Life
Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Clinical psychologist Daniel J. Flannery reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. He explores how young people experience violence in their everyday lives and how this impacts their mental health and ability to cope...
Ancient Queens
Archaeological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Exploding the traditional myth that view queens as simply an appendage to the king, these essays explore the social and cultural constructions of female power. This volume does more than merely identify and describe queens, but rather, offers its readers an understanding of the roles of these 'dominant...
by Stephen L. Black, Kevin Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
Archaeology doesn't just happen. With large numbers of people involved, the complex logistics of fieldwork, funding needed for projects of any size, and a bewildering set of legal regulations and ethical norms to follow, a well-run archaeological project requires careful and detailed planning. In...
Healing by Hand
Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body therapists, one of the primary providers of 'traditional' medicine. Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural primer on manual medicine studies. As a particular modality of healing, manual medicine has reached a high level of popularity...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, religious,...