Altamira Press: 384 books
Archaeology of Performance
Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are...
The Archaeology of Childhood
Children, Gender, and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005
The study of children and childhood in historical and prehistoric life is an overlooked area of study that Jane Baxter addresses in this brief book. Her timely contribution stresses the importance of studying children as active participants in past cultures, instead of regarding them mainly for their...
Behavioral Anthropology
Toward an Integrated Science of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Behavioral Anthropology is a unique introduction, combining an intellectual biography with an explanation of methodological principles. Each chapter deals with a specific methodological issue, such as research design, the role of theory, various strategies for measuring behavior, psychological or...
Composing Ethnography
Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
What is it like to have lived with bulimia for most of your life? To have a mother who is retarded? To fight a health insurance company in order to survive breast cancer? Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner have assembled innovative pieces which tackle these and other difficult questions, enlarging...
by Francesca M. Cancian, Stacey J. Oliker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1999
Are women naturally better caregivers than men? Can paid care in an institutuion be good care? Can voluntary community care replace government welfare? Is the caring family disappearing? What role should government play in supporting or regulating families? Is day care for children as good as home...
The Tribal Moment in American Politics
The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In the “tribal moment in American politics,” which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems. The U.S. government responded characteristically, overall wielding...
Toward an Integrative Medicine
Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing...
Material Culture and Sacred Landscape
The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings...
Opportunity House
Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 1997
Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V. Angrosino's riveting and de-mystifying account offers an insider's picture of the lives of the inhabitants of Opportunity House. Using the narrative device of a dozen fictional short...
Historical Archaeology in Africa
Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory,...
Ethnodrama
An Anthology of Reality Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2005
Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Salda-a...
Magic, Miracles, and Religion
A Scientist's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, PyysiSinen shows how findings from cognitive...
Travels with Ernest
Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2004
In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously...
Mistake in Identity
A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
A murder, just four hours before the Royal Duchess is scheduled to sail for Alaska, and inspector Solomon Hunter and his assistant, Talcott Weems, are summoned to investigate this latest mystery. This delightful whodunit textbook by Arthur Asa Berger is the perfect tool to introduce students to cultural...